The Rumbold Baronetcy, of Wood Hall in Watton in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 27 March 1779 for the politician and colonial administrator Thomas Rumbold. The second Baronet was Minister at Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. The fifth Baronet was President of Nevis

Nevis

Nevis is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located near the northern end of the Lesser Antilles archipelago, about 350 km east-southeast of Puerto Rico and 80 km west of Antigua. The 93 km² island is part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies...

 and of the Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, which form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...

. The eighth Baronet was Ambassador to Austria from 1896 to 1900. The ninth Baronet was also a distinguished diplomat and served as Ambassador to Germany from 1928 to 1933. The tenth Baronet was Ambassador to Thailand and Austria.

Sir (Horace) Algernon Fraser Rumbold (1906-1933), son of Colonel William Edwin Rumbold, second son of the eighth Baronet, was Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa from 1949 to 1953, Deputy Under-Secretary of State from 1958 to 1966 and author of Watershed in India 1914-1922.

Rumbold Baronets, of Wood Hall (1779)

• Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet (1736-1791)
• Sir George Berriman Rumbold, 2nd Baronet (1764-1807)
• Sir William Rumbold, 3rd Baronet (1787-1833)
• Sir Cavendish Stuart Rumbold, 4th Baronet (1815-1853)
• Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold, 5th Baronet (1820-1869)
• Sir Arthur Victor Raoul Anduze Rumbold, 6th Baronet (1869-1877)
• Sir Charles Hale Rumbold, 7th Baronet (1822-1877)
• Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Baronet (1829-1913)
• Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet (1869-1941)
• Sir (Horace) Anthony Claude Rumbold, 10th Baronet (1911-1983)
• Sir Henry John Sebastian Rumbold, 11th Baronet (b. 1947)