Spring baronets

The Spring Baronetcy, of Pakenham in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Baronetage of England.

History

The coat-of-arms of Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet (1672–1704), displayed on a funerary hatchment

The title was created on 11 August 1641 for Sir William Spring, a Suffolk Member of Parliament who had already been knighted by Charles I. He was the son of Sir William Spring of Pakenham, and descended from the Suffolk gentry Spring family, who had been major wool merchants in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The baronetcy was created as part of an attempt by the king to win the favour of Parliamentarian gentry families in the lead up to the Civil War, as the Spring family was staunchly Parliamentarian and held considerable influence in Suffolk. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the family was issued with a general pardon for their actions against the king. The first baronet’s son, also William, inherited the title. He was a MP for Suffolk and one of the earliest members to be designated a Whig. The baronetcy became dormant on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1769.

Motto

The family motto is Non mihi sed Patriae (Latin), Not for myself but for my country.^[1]

Spring baronets, of Pakenham (1641)

• Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet (1613–1654)
• Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet (1642–1684)
• Sir Thomas Spring, 3rd Baronet (1672–1704)
• Sir William Spring, 4th Baronet (1697–1737)
• Sir John Spring, 5th Baronet (1674–1740)
• Sir John Spring, 6th Baronet (died 1769)

See also

• List of political families in the United Kingdom
• Spring family

External links

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page which has further dates on it, not shown above.
• Pakenham – Village of Two Mills (History section)

Further reading

• Medieval Clothing and Textiles, by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
• The Springs of Lavenham and the Suffolk Cloth Trade in the XV and XVI Centuries, by Barbara McClenaghan

References