There have been two Charlton Baronetcies:-

The Baronetcy of Charlton of Hesleyside was created in the Baronetage of England on 6 March 1645 for Edward Charlton of Hesleyside Hall

Hesleyside Hall

Hesleyside Hall is a privately owned 18th century country house and the ancestral home of the Border reiver Charlton family about west of Bellingham, Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building....

, Northumberland

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 a descendant of the Border Reiver family, but was extinct on his death.

The Baronetcy of Charlton of Ludford was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 May 1645 for Sir Job Charlton ( knighted 1662) of Ludford House, Shropshire

Shropshire

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. Charlton was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College, Oxford

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 and admitted to Lincoln's Inn

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 in 1633. He was appointed Sergeant at Law in 1660, Chief Justice of Chester 1662 and Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (England)

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 1680. He was Member of Parliament

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 for Ludlow

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 and was briefly Speaker of the British House of Commons

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 in 1673. His son, the second Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Ludlow and later Bishops Castle and was High Sheriff

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 of Shropshire in 1698. The Baronetcy was extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet and the Shropshire estate passed to his nephew Edmund Lechmere-Charlton.

Charlton of Ludford (1686)

• Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet  (1614-1697)
• Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet (1651-1729)
• Sir Blunden Charlton, 3rd Baronet (1682-1742)
• Sir Francis Charlton, 4th Baronet (1707-1784)