
Honyman Baronets
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Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for Orkney
Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)
Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...
. The fourth Baronet was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
Court of Common Pleas (England)
The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common...
. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1911.
Robert Honyman, second son of the first Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Orkney between 1796 and 1807.
Honyman Baronets, of Armadale (1804)
- Sir William Honyman, 1st Baronet (d. 1825)
- Sir Richard Bempdé Johnstone Honyman, 2nd Baronet (1787-1842)
- Sir Ord John Honyman, 3rd Baronet (1794-1863)
- Sir George Essex Honyman, 4th Baronet (1819-1875)
- Sir William Macdonald Honyman, 5th Baronet (1820-1911)

