The Macara Baronetcy, of Ardmore in St Anne-on-the-Sea in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the

Baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...

. It was created in 1911 for the

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

cotton-spinner, Charles Macara. The title became extinct upon the death of the fourth Baronet in

Dudley Dudley ( , ) is a market town in the West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. In the ...

in 1986.

Macara baronets, of Ardmore (1911)

Sir Charles Wright Macara, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Wright Macara, 1st Baronet (1845–1929) was a British cotton spinner and textile industrialist. Life He was born in the manse at Strathmiglo on 11 January 1845, the son of Rev William Macara (1812-1889), a minister of the Free Churc ...

(1845–1929), cotton spinner. He was founder of the Lifeboat Saturday movement for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the first recorded charity street collection. His wife, Lady Marion Macara, founded the Ladies Lifeboat Guild. *Sir William Cowper Macara, 2nd Baronet (1875–1931) *Sir (Charles) Douglas Macara, 3rd Baronet (1904–1982) *Sir Hugh Kenneth Macara, 4th Baronet (1913–1986). After his succession in 1982, his name never appeared on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. He died without heir.

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''1886: Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster'', RNLI
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