The Cunliffe Baronetcy, of

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, is a title in the

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. It was created on 26 March 1759 for Sir Ellis Cunliffe, a

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. The fourth Baronet was a General in the

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. The fifth Baronet represented Flint Boroughs and Denbigh Boroughs in the

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. Three other members of the family may also be mentioned. George Gordon Cunliffe (1829-1900), son of Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a

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. His son Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe (1861–1955) was a

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. Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe, son of Colonel Foster Lionel Brooke, son of the aforementioned Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a

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Cunliffe baronets, of Liverpool (1759)

* Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Kt., 1st Baronet (1717–1767) * Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet (1719–1778) *

Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet (1755–1834) was the founder of the Royal Society of British Bowmen. Biography Foster Cunliffe was the son of Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet and Mary Wright. He succeeded to his father’s baronetcy on the ...

(1755–1834) * Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet, Kt., CB (1785–1859) * Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet (1839–1905) * Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, 6th Baronet (1875–1916) * Sir Robert Neville Henry Cunliffe, 7th Baronet (1884–1949) * Sir Cyril Henley Cunliffe, 8th Baronet (1901–1969) * Sir David Ellis Cunliffe, 9th Baronet (born 1957)

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *{{Rayment-bt , date=February 2013

External links

History of the Cunliffe family
Cunliffe 1759 establishments in Great Britain