Quilter Baronets

The Quilter Baronetcy, of Bawdsey Manor in Bawdsey in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 September 1897.

ir William (Cuthbert) Quilter, 1st Baronet

1841-1911

The Baronetcy was created on 13 September 1897 for Sir William Quilter, whose full name was Sir William Cuthbert Quilter. He was an art collector, one of the founders of the National Telephone Company and was Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Sudbury from 1885-1906cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsq.htm|title=Baronetage|accessdate=2007-12-30] .

William Quilter built Bawdsey Manor in 1886 and enlarged it in 1895cite web|url=http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/bawdsey_radar/|title=RAF Bawdsey Chain Home Radar Station|accessdate=2007-12-30] . He established a steam powered chain ferry in 1894, the Bawdsey Ferry to cross the River Deben to access the nearest railway station at Felixstowe which ran until 1931 [cite web|url=http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Suffolk.html#anchor150349|title=Felixstowe Ferry-Bawdsey|accessdate=2007-12-30] .

ir (William Eley) Cuthbert Quilter, 2nd Baronet

1873-1952

Sir Cuthbert Quilter, full name William Eley Cuthbert Quilter Represented Sudbury in the House of Commons as a Conservative from 1910 to 1918.

The family seat, Bawdsey Manor, was requisitioned by the Devonshire Regiment during World War 1 and returned to the family afterwards, but was then sold to the Air Ministry in 1936 for a new research station for the development of radio direction finding.

ir (John) Raymond Cuthbert Quilter, 3rd Baronet

1902-1959

ir Anthony Raymond Leopold Cuthbert Quilter, 4th Baronet

b. 1937)

ee also

*Roger Quilter 1887 -1953, son of Sir Cuthbert Quilter

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