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Harland baronets of Sproughton (1771)

extinct baronetcy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ122760740 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Harland baronetcy, of Sproughton in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 13 March 1771 for Admiral Robert Harland, subsequently a Lord of the Admiralty in 1782. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baronet, in 1848.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Harland baronets of Sproughton (1771)” is extinct baronetcy. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Harland, baronets and Sproughton, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1771, 1782, 1848—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Harland, baronets and Sproughton is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “extinct baronetcy” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q122760740. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1771, 1782 and 1848.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harland baronets of Sproughton (1771)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.