Redwood baronets

The Redwood Baronetcy, of Avenue Road in St Marylebone, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 July 1911 for Boverton Redwood. He was a leading expert on petroleum and an adviser to the Admiralty, India Office and Home Office. The third Baronet is a retired Colonel in the King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Sir Boverton Redwood (1st Baronet) caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair (UK) in 1908. The image is captioned "Petroleum".

Redwood baronets, of Avenue Road (1911)
Coat of arms of Redwood baronets
Crest
A rock, thereon an eagle rising Proper charged on each wing with a mullet of six points in the beak a staff raguly Or.
Escutcheon
Paly of six Or and Ermine a lion rampant Sable on a chief Azure an embattled gateway Proper between two mullets of six points of the first.
Motto
Lumen Sevimus Antique [3]

Notes
  1. Thomas Boverton Redwood
  2. Bernard Boverton Redwood
  3. Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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References
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

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