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Worsley-Taylor baronets

title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ8037102 ↗
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The Worsley-Taylor Baronetcy, of Moreton Hall in the Parish of Whalley the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 February 1917 for Henry Worsley-Taylor, Conservative Member of Parliament for Blackpool between 1900 and 1906. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1958.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1900, 1906, 1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Worsley-Taylor, baronets and title can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Worsley-Taylor 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.