Troubridge baronets

The Troubridge Baronetcy, of Plymouth, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 30 November 1799 for Captain Thomas Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy, who later became an admiral. The second baronet was also a Royal Navy admiral and sat as Member of Parliament for Sandwich. The third baronet fought with distinction in the Crimean War, in which he was severely wounded.

Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet

Other members of the family may also be mentioned. Edward Norwich Troubridge, second son of the second baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy. Laura, Lady Troubridge, wife of the fourth baronet, was a writer for Mills and Boon and author of The Book of Etiquette (1926). Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge (1862–1926), was a younger son of the third baronet and grandfather of the sixth. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet and failed to engage the German ships Goeben and Breslau. Although Sir Ernest was exonerated by court martial, remained in the Navy and was promoted, he was not again assigned to duty at sea. His estranged wife Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge was most famous as the partner of the author Radclyffe Hall. Thomas Troubridge, a banker who was the first husband of Princess Michael of Kent, was a younger brother of the sixth baronet.

The family surname is pronounced "Troobridge".

Troubridge baronets, of Plymouth (1799)

• Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (1758–1807)
• Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, 2nd Baronet (1787–1852)
• Sir Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge, 3rd Baronet (1815–1862)
• Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet (13 September 1860 – 5 December 1938). Troubridge married Laura Gurney in 1893, and had one son, the fifth Baronet, and two daughters.
• Sir (Thomas) St Vincent Wallace Troubridge, 5th Baronet (15 November 1895 – 16 December 1963). Troubridge married Pamela Clough in 1939, but had no issue.
• Sir Peter Troubridge, 6th Baronet (6 June 1927 – 27 September 1988). Troubridge was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge (1895–1949), and succeeded his cousin in the baronetcy in 1963. He married the Hon. Venetia Daphne Weeks, daughter of Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks, in 1954, and had issue one son, the seventh Baronet, and two daughters.
• Sir Thomas Troubridge, 7th Baronet (born 1955),[1] Troubridge is married since 1984 to Hon. Rosemary Douglas-Pennant (born 1957), younger daughter of Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn, and has issue. The heir to the baronetcy is his elder son Edward Peter Troubridge (born 10 August 1989)

Coat of arms of Troubridge baronets

Crest A dexter arm embowed habited Azure holding a flagstaff thereon a flag azure charged with two keys in saltire Or. Escutcheon Or on a bridge embattled of three arches through which water is flowing towards the base Proper a tower of the second thereon hoisted a broad pennant flying towards the sinister on a canton Azure two keys in saltire the wards upwards Or. Motto Ne Cede Arduis [2]

Footnotes

1. Lundy, Darryl. "Sir Thomas Richard Troubridge, 6th Bt". The Peerage. p. 7950 § 79500. Retrieved 2 November 2007.. Darryl Landy wrongly lists him as the 6th Baronet; his father was the 6th Baronet .
2. Burke's Peerage. 1949.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.