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Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Sir Boverton Redwood (1st Baronet) caricatured by
Spy
in
Vanity Fair (UK)
in 1908. The image is captioned "Petroleum".
The
Redwood Baronetcy
, of Avenue Road in St Marylebone, is a title in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
. It was created on 24 July 1911 for
Boverton Redwood
. He was a leading expert on
petroleum
and an adviser to the
Admiralty
,
India Office
and
Home Office
. He was Director of Technical Investigation at the
Petroleum Executive
1917-19.
The third Baronet is a retired
Colonel
in the
King's Own Scottish Borderers
.
Redwood baronets, of Avenue Road (1911)
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The heir presumptive is the present holder's half-brother Robert Boverton Redwood (born 1953). The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son James Boverton Redwood (born 1985).
Coat of arms of Redwood baronets
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- Crest
- A rock, thereon an eagle rising Proper charged on each wing with a mullet of six points in the beak a staff raguly Or.
- Escutcheon
- Paly of six Or and Ermine a lion rampant Sable on a chief Azure an embattled gateway Proper between two mullets of six points of the first.
- Motto
- Lumen Sevimus Antique
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Notes
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References
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- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors).
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
(1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.