The Cunliffe Baronetcy, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 March 1759 for Ellis Cunliffe, a merchant and Member of Parliament

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 for Liverpool

Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The fourth Baronet was a General in the Bengal Army

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. The fifth Baronet represented Flint Boroughs

Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Denbigh Boroughs

Denbigh Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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Three other members of the family may also be mentioned. George Gordon Cunliffe, son of Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a Major-General in the British Army

British Army

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. His son Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe (1861–1955) was a Brigadier-General in the Seaforth Highlanders

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. Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe, son of Colonel Foster Lionel Brooke, son of the aforementioned Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a Captain

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 in the Royal Navy

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Cunliffe Baronets, of Liverpool (1759)

• Sir Ellis Cunliffe, 1st Baronet (1717–1767)
• Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet (1719–1778)
• Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet (1755–1834)
• Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet (1785–1859)
• Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet
  Sir Robert Cunliffe, 5th Baronet
  Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1872 and 1885....
  
   (1839–1905)
• Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, 6th Baronet (1875–1916)
• Sir Robert Neville Henry Cunliffe, 7th Baronet (1884–1949)
• Sir Cyril Henley Cunliffe, 8th Baronet (1901–1969)
• Sir David Ellis Cunliffe, 9th Baronet (b. 1957)

External links

• History of the Cunliffe family