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Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Anson baronets
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Anson_Achievement.png/220px-Anson_Achievement.png) Coat of arms of the Anson baronets of Birch Hall
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Creation date
| 1831
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Status
| extant
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Seat(s)
| Birch Hall
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Motto
| Nil desperandum
, Never despair
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Arms
| Argent three Bendlets engrailed Gules in the sinister canton a Crescent of the second
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Crest
| Out of a Ducal Coronet Or a Spear erect proper
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The
Anson baronetcy
, of Birch Hall in the
County Palatine of Lancaster
, is a title in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
[4]
held by a branch of the
Anson family
.
The baronetcy was created on 30 September 1831 for William Anson. He was the third son of
George Anson
; his elder brothers were
Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson
, and General
Sir George Anson
. Sir William was the uncle of
Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield
, and Major-General
George Anson
and the great-nephew of
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
(see
Earl of Lichfield, 1831 creation
, for more information on the Anson family). His grandson, the third Baronet, was a lawyer and
Liberal Unionist
politician. He never married and was succeeded by his nephew, the fourth Baronet. He was the only son of Frederick Arthur Anson, third son of the second Baronet. The fourth baronet drowned in the
Thames
on an outing of The Coterie in July 1914, after he jumped into the river encouraged by lady Diana Manners. He had not married and on his death the title passed to his first cousin, the fifth Baronet, the eldest son of
Rear-Admiral
Algernon Horatio Anson (1854?1913), fourth and youngest son of the second Baronet. He was killed in action in the
First World War
. He was unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Baronet. His elder son, the seventh baronet, was a Rear-Admiral in the
Royal Navy
. As of 2021 the title is held by the latter's son, the eighth Baronet, who succeeded in 2018.
Anson baronets, of Birch Hall (1831)
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The
heir presumptive
is the current holder's brother, Hugo William Anson (b. 1962).
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