Wittewrong Baronets
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The Wittewrong Baronetcy, of Stantonbury in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 2 May 1662 for Sir John Wittewrong, a former parliamentarian colonel and Member of Parliament
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 for Hertfordshire
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. The third Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Aylesbury
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 and Wycombe
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. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1771.

The Wittewrongs were a Flemish Protestant family who in 1564 left Ghent
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 in the Spanish Netherlands for London
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Wittewrong Baronets, of Stantonbury (1662)

  • Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet (1618-1693)
  • Sir John Wittewrong, 2nd Baronet (1640-1697)
  • Sir John Wittewrong, 3rd Baronet (1673-1722)
  • Sir John Wittewrong, 4th Baronet (1695-1743)
  • Sir William Wittewrong, 5th Baronet (1697-1761)
  • Sir John Wittewrong, 6th Baronet (d. 1771)
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