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Meux baronets of Kingston (1641)

extinct baronetcy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ131341224 ↗
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The Meux Baronetcy, of Kingston on the Isle of Wight, was created in the Baronetage of England on 11 December 1641 for John Meux, member of parliament for Newtown. He was the son of William Meux, MP for Newtown in 1604, and his wife Winifred, daughter of Francis Barrington.

The title became extinct on the death of the 3rd Baronet in 1706.

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“Meux baronets of Kingston (1641)” enters the record as extinct baronetcy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Meux, baronets and Kingston can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meux baronets of Kingston (1641)” 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.