The Isham Baronetcy, of Lamport in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 30 May 1627 for John Isham, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire

High Sheriff of Northamptonshire

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. He was succeeded by his son Justinian, the second Baronet. He fought as a Royalist in the Civil War

English Civil War

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 and sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

The county constituency of Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands of England was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832 and was represented in...

 after The Restoration

English Restoration

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. The fourth Baronet represented Northampton

Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Northamptonshire in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 while the fifth and sixth Baronets both represented Northamptonshire. The twelfth Baronet was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1958.

The family surname is pronounced "Eye-shum". The family surname derives from the village of Isham

Isham

Isham is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It is on the A509 road, three miles south of Kettering and a mile to the west of Burton Latimer. The River Ise is to the east of the village. Administratively, it forms part of the borough of Wellingborough...

, Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

. The family seat was Lamport Hall

Lamport Hall

Lamport Hall in Lamport, Northamptonshire is a fine example of a Grade I Listed House. It is open to the public.Lamport Hall was the home of the Isham family from 1560 to 1976. Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he...

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Isham Baronets, of Lamport (1627)

• Sir John Isham, 1st Baronet (1582-1651)
• Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Justinian Isham, second baronet was an English scholar and royalist politician. In the 1660s he was a Member of Parliament and also an early member of the Royal Society.-Life:...
  
   (1610-1675)
• Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet (1656-1681)
• Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet (1658-1730)
• Sir Justinian Isham, 5th Baronet (1687-1737)
• Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet (1690-1772)
• Sir Justinian Isham, 7th Baronet (1740-1818)
• Sir Justinian Isham, 8th Baronet (1773-1845)
• Sir Justinian Vere Isham, 9th Baronet (1816-1846)
• Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (1819-1903)
• Sir Vere Isham, 11th Baronet (1862-1941)
• Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet (1903-1976)
• Sir Ian Isham, 13th Baronet (1923-2009)
• Sir Norman Isham (OBE), 14th Baronet (b. 1930)