The Brooksbank Baronetcy, of Healaugh Manor in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 September 1919 for Edward Brooksbank. He was a Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 and a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 for the West Riding of Yorkshire

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. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baronet (the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Brooksbank, eldest son of the first Baronet). He was a Colonel

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 in the Yorkshire Yeomanry and also served as a Justice of the Peace and as a Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire

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. As of 2007 the title is held by his son, the third Baronet, who succeeded in 1983.

Stamp Brooksbank (1694-1756), great-great-great-grandfather of the first Baronet, was Governor of the Bank of England

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 from 1741 to 1743 and represented Saltash

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 and Colchester

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 in the House of Commons

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Brooksbank Baronets, of Healaugh Manor (1919)

• Sir Edward Clitherow Brooksbank, 1st Baronet (1858-1943)
• Sir (Edward) William Brooksbank, 2nd Baronet (1915-1983)
• Sir (Edward) Nicholas Brooksbank, 3rd Baronet (b. 1944)