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Tench baronets

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7699552 ↗
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The Tench Baronetcy, of Low Leyton in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created in 1715 for Fisher Tench, a financier and member of parliament for Southwark. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1737.

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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 Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7699552. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1715 and 1737.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tench baronets” 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.