The Metcalfe Baronetcy, of Chilton

Chilton

- People :Surname* Chilton Given name* Chilton Allan , American lawyer and politician* Charles Chilton Moore* Chilton Price* Joseph Chilton Pearce- Place Names :England* Chilton, Buckinghamshire* Chilton, County Durham** Great Chilton...

 in the County of Berkshire

Berkshire

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, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 21 December 1802 for Thomas Metcalfe, Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Abingdon

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 between 1796 and 1807.

His second son, the third Baronet (who succeeded his elder brother), served as Acting Governor-General of India

Governor-General of India

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 and as Governor General of the Province of Canada

Governor General of Canada

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. In 1845 he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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 as Baron Metcalfe, of Fern Hill in the County of Berkshire. The barony became extinct on his death in 1846 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. He was also a colonial administrator. The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1979.

Metcalfe Baronets, of Chilton (1802)

• Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baronet (1745-1813)
• Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe, 2nd Baronet (1783-1822)
• Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 3rd Baronet
  Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
  Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, Bt, KCB, PC , known as Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bt between 1822 and 1845, was a British colonial administrator...
  
   (1785-1846) (created Baron Metcalfe in 1845)

Barons Metcalfe (1845)

• Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
  Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
  Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, Bt, KCB, PC , known as Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bt between 1822 and 1845, was a British colonial administrator...
  
   (1785-1846)

Metcalfe Baronets, of Chilton (1802; Reverted)

• Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Baronet (1795-1853)
• Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe, 5th Baronet (1828-1883)
• Sir Charles Herbert Theophilus Metcalfe, 6th Baronet (1853-1928)
• Sir Theophilus John Massie Metcalfe, 7th Baronet (1866-1950)
• Sir Theophilus John Metcalfe, 8th Baronet (1916-1979)