Boileau Baronets

The Boileau Baronetcy, of Tacolneston Hall in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 July 1838 for John Boileau. He was an antiquary and archaeologist as well as a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff for Norfolk. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, the second Baronet. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries. His eldest son, the third Baronet, was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Northamptonshire Regiment and the Royal Field Artillery and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk. He died childless and was succeeded by his first cousin, the fifth Baronet. He was the son of Edmund William Pollen Boileau, younger son of the first Baronet. His eldest son, the sixth Baronet, died without male issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the seventh Baronet. As of 2007 the title is held by the latter's son, the eighth Baronet, who succeeded in 1980. He is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Army.

The Boileau family is of French aristocratic origins. The first Baronet's ancestor Charles Boileau, Baron of Castelnau and St Croix, fled to England after the revoctaion of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Boileau Baronets, of Tacolneston Hall (1838)

*Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet (1794-1869)
*Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau, 2nd Baronet (1830-1900)
*Sir Maurice Colborne Boileau, 3rd Baronet (1865-1937)
*Sir Raymond Frederic Boileau, 4th Baronet (1868-1942)
*Sir Francis James Boileau, 5th Baronet (1871-1945)
*Sir Gilbert George Benson Boileau, 6th Baronet (1898-1978)
*Sir Edmond Charles Boileau, 7th Baronet (1903-1980)
*Sir Guy Francis Boileau, 8th Baronet (b. 1935)

External links

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.christophereimer.co.uk/single/8893.html Biography of Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet]

References

* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]