Mount baronets
The Mount baronets are a family with a baronetcy in the United Kingdom.
The baronetcy was settled on William Mount on 21 June 1921 and is extant.[1]
Mount Baronets, of Wasing (1921)
- Sir William Arthur Mount, 1st Baronet (1866–1930)
- Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet TD DL (28 December 1904–22 June 1993). Mount was a Territorial Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, a Deputy Lieutenant of the same county and grandfather to David Cameron. He was the eldest son of Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, and Hilda Lucy Adelaide, daughter of Malcolm Low and wife Lady Ida Matilda Alice Fielding of the Earls of Denbigh, and a third cousin of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. On 17 October 1929 he married Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn, daughter of Owen John Llewellyn of Moulsford, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He inherited the baronetcy on 8 December 1930 on the death of his father.[2] He was commissioned into the 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) as second lieutenant in 1924[3] and was promoted lieutenant in 1926,[4] captain in 1937,[5] and major in 1938. He transferred to the Reconnaissance Corps on its formation in September 1941 and ended the Second World War as a lieutenant-colonel. Mount was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 1946,[6] and High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1947.[7] He died at the age of 88.
- Robert Francis Mount (1907–1969), 2nd son of the 1st Baronet and father of the 3rd Baronet
- Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet (born 1939)
The heir apparent to the baronetcy is the 3rd Baronet's eldest son, William Robert Horatio Mount (born 1969).
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References
- "No. 32346". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1921. p. 4530.
- "No. 33714". The London Gazette. 8 May 1931. p. 3029.
- "No. 32915". The London Gazette. 4 March 1924. p. 1929.
- "No. 33154". The London Gazette. 23 April 1926. p. 2781.
- "No. 34392". The London Gazette. 27 April 1937. p. 2735.
- "No. 37715". The London Gazette. 6 September 1946. p. 4473.
- "No. 37905". The London Gazette. 14 March 1947. p. 1214.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "M" (part 4)
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