Boyce Baronets
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The Boyce Baronetcy, of Badgeworth in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 November 1952 for the Australia
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-born Conservative
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 politician Leslie Boyce
Sir Leslie Boyce, 1st Baronet
Sir Harold Leslie Boyce, 1st Baronet K.St.J. was an Australian-born British Conservative Party politician.Boyce was born in Taree, New South Wales, the son of Charles Macleay Boyce, a solicitor, and his wife Ethel May Thorne. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford,...

. He represented Gloucester
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 in the House of Commons
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 from 1929 to 1945. the title is now held by his grandson, the third Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1968.

Boyce Baronets, of Badgeworth (1952)

  • Sir (Harold) Leslie Boyce, 1st Baronet
    Sir Leslie Boyce, 1st Baronet
    Sir Harold Leslie Boyce, 1st Baronet K.St.J. was an Australian-born British Conservative Party politician.Boyce was born in Taree, New South Wales, the son of Charles Macleay Boyce, a solicitor, and his wife Ethel May Thorne. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford,...

    (1895–1955)
  • Sir Richard Leslie Boyce, 2nd Baronet (1929–1968)
  • Sir Robert Charles Leslie Boyce, 3rd Baronet (b. 1962)

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