Stapleton baronets

The Stapleton Baronetcy, of The Leeward Islands, is a dormant title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1679 for William Stapleton, Governor of the Leeward Islands. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire. The fifth Baronet represented Oxford in the House of Commons. In 1788 the abeyance of the ancient barony of le Despencer was terminated in favour of the sixth Baronet, who became the sixteenth Baron de Despencer. On his death the barony passed to his granddaughter Frances Elizabeth (the daughter of his eldest son the Hon. Thomas Stapleton), wife of Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (see Baron le Despencer for further history of this title). The baronetcy was inherited by the late Baronet's youngest son Francis Joseph, the seventh Baronet. The 1679 creation became extinct upon the death of Sir Henry Alfred Stapleton, 10th Baronet, in 1995.

• Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet (died 1686)
• Sir James Stapleton, 2nd Baronet (1672–1690)
• Sir William Stapleton, 3rd Baronet (1674–1699)
• Sir William Stapleton, 4th Baronet (1698–1740)
• Sir Thomas Stapleton, 5th Baronet (1727–1781)
• Sir Thomas Stapleton, 6th Baronet (1766–1831)
• Sir Francis Joseph Stapleton, 7th Baronet (1807–1874)
• Sir Francis George Stapleton, 8th Baronet (1831–1899)
• Sir Miles Talbot Stapleton, 9th Baronet (1893–1977)
• Sir Henry Alfred Stapleton, 10th Baronet (1913–1995)

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets