Muspratt Baronets
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The Muspratt Baronetcy, of Merseyside in the County of Lancashire, was created on 30 November 1922 in the Baronetcy of the United Kingdom, for Max Muspratt, an industrial chemist and chairman of the United Alkali Company. The title became extinct in 1934, on the death of the first baronet.
Muspratt was also a Liberal Party politician, who seved briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1910, and as Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1916 to 1917; he joined the Conservative Party in 1926, the same year that his business was merged with others to form Imperial Chemical Industries.