Ouseley baronets

The Ouseley Baronetcy, of Claremont in the County of Hertford, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 October 1808 for the entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat, Gore Ouseley.[2] He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He was a composer, organist, and musicologist. The title became extinct on his death in 1889.[3]

Ouseley baronets
Escutcheon of the Ouseley baronets of Claremont
Creation date1808[1]
Statusextinct
Extinction date1889
MottoMors lupi agnis vita, Death of the wolf is life to the lamb[1]

The first Baronet was the brother of Sir William Ouseley and the uncle of Sir William Gore Ouseley.[2]

Ouseley baronets, of Claremont (1808)

References

  1. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1850. p. 769.
  2. Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. pp. 476–477.
  3. Shaw, Watkins. "Ouseley, Sir Frederick Arthur Gore, second baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20953. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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