The Prevost Baronetcy, of Belmont near Southampton in Hampshire, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 December 1805 for the soldier and colonial administrator Lieutenant-General George Prevost. He was Governor General of British North America

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 from 1812 to 1815. After his death in 1816 his widow Lady Prevost declined the offer of a peerage, as she did not consider herself and her family to have sufficient means to support the dignity. Prevost was the son of General Augustine Prevost

Augustine Prevost

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, himself a distinguished soldier, who had emigrated to England

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 from Geneva

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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The family surname is pronounced "Prev-o".

Prevost Baronets, of Belmont (1805)

• Sir George Prevost, 1st Baronet (1767-1816)
• Sir George Prevost, 2nd Baronet (1804-1893)
• Sir Charles Prevost, 3rd Baronet (1831-1902)
• Sir Charles Thomas Keble Prevost, 4th Baronet (1866-1939)
• Sir George James Augustine Prevost, 5th Baronet (1910-1985)
• Sir Christopher Gerald Prevost, 6th Baronet (b. 1935)