The Royden Baronetcy, of Frankby Hall in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 July 1905 for Thomas Royden

Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet was an English shipowner and Conservative Party politician.Royden was the son of Thomas Royden of Liverpool. He was educated at Liverpool College and became head of Thomas Royden & Sons, shipowners. He became a member of Liverpool City Council in 1873, and was...

, head of Thomas Royden & Sons, shipowners. He also served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool

Lord Mayor of Liverpool

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 and represented Toxteth West in the House of Commons

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 as a Conservative

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. His eldest son, the second Baronet, was Chairman of the Cunard Line

Cunard Line

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 and sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Bootle

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. On 28 January 1944 he was created Baron Royden, of Frankby in the County Palatine of Chester, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. However, the peerage became extinct on his death in 1950 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the third Baronet.

Agnes Maude Royden was the youngest child of the first Baronet.

Royden Baronets, of Frankby Hall (1905)

• Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet was an English shipowner and Conservative Party politician.Royden was the son of Thomas Royden of Liverpool. He was educated at Liverpool College and became head of Thomas Royden & Sons, shipowners. He became a member of Liverpool City Council in 1873, and was...
  
   (1831–1917)
• Sir Thomas Royden, 2nd Baronet
  Thomas Royden, 1st Baron Royden
  Thomas Royden, 1st Baron Royden was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.He was the son of Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet , a Conservative politician and head of the Thomas Royden & Sons shipping company...
  
  (1871–1950) (created Baron Royden in 1944)

Royden Baronets, of Frankby Hall (1905; Reverted)

• Sir Ernest Bland Royden, 3rd Baronet (1873–1960)
• Sir John Ledward Royden, 4th Baronet (1907–1976)
• Sir Christopher John Royden, 5th Baronet (b. 1937)