Delves Baronets

There has been one creation of baronets with the surname Delves.

The Delves family originated in Staffordshire and the Baronets were descended from Sir John Delves, Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire and three times High Sheriff of Staffordshire, and Sir John Delves, twice High Sheriff who was killed during the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.^[1]

The Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of England on 8 May 1621 for Thomas Delves the great grandson of Sir Henry Delves Kt of Dodington, Cheshire, High Sheriff of Cheshire on two occasions. The first three Baronets also served as High Sheriffs of Cheshire.^[2]

The Baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet. His daughter and heiress Elizabeth Delves married Sir Brian Broughton Bt in 1710.

Delves of Dodington, Cheshire (8 May 1621)

Created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

• Sir Thomas Delves, 1st Baronet (30 Nov 1571 - 23 Apr 1658) High Sheriff of Cheshire
• Sir Henry Delves, 2nd Baronet (24 May 1597 - 23 May 1663)
• Sir Thomas Delves, 3rd Baronet (28 Aug 1630 - 15 May 1713)
• Sir Thomas Delves, 4th Baronet (4 Oct 1652 - 12 Sep 1727)
• The Baronetcy became extinct on his death.

Notes

1. ^ A Survey of Staffordshire, Containing the Antiquities of that County Sampson Erdeswick and Rev Thomas Harwood (1820) p382 Google Books
2. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland 2nd Ed (1844) John and John Bernard Burke p157. Google Books

References

• Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets
• Records of an Old Cheshire Family

External links

• Delves family tree