Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet

Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet (born c.1730, died 6 November 1763) was an Irish baronet, created first Baronet Fleming. of Brompton Park in the County of Middlesex in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 22 April 1763.[1]

Arms of Fleming: (Baron Fleming (or Baron Slane)): Or, a chevron within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules. These arms were borne as an inescutcheon of pretence by Charles Harrington, 3rd Earl Harrington, husband of the 1st baronet's daughter and co-heiress Jane Harrington

He married Jane Coleman, daughter of William Coleman and Jane Seymour, in 1753. His elder daughter Jane married Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington. His younger daughter Seymour Dorothy Fleming (1758-1818) was involved in a scandalous separation from her husband Sir Richard Worsley. Lady Fleming remarried in 1770 to a rich sexagenarian born in Barbados, Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood.

References

1. "No. 10304". The London Gazette. 16 April 1763. p. 6.

• John Burke and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, 1841, page 201
• Thomas Wotton, Edward Kimber, Richard A. Johnson, "The baronetage of England: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... To which is added an account of such Nova Scotia baronets as are of English families; and a dictionary of heraldry", Printed for G. Woodfall (etc.), 1771, volume 2, page 195