The Eardley-Wilmot Baronetcy, of Berkswell Hall

Berkswell Hall

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 in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 August 1821 for the politician and colonial administrator John Eardley-Wilmot. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1843 to 1846. Eardley-Wilmot was the son of John Wilmot (1750-June 1815), barrister-at-law and one of the Masters-in-Chancery, who in 1812 had assumed by royal license the additional surname of Eardley as the great-grandson of Elizabeth, sole heiress of Edward Eardley, of Eardley, Staffordshire

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, and the grandson of John Eardley Wilmot

John Eardley Wilmot

Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC , was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771.-Family and early life:...

, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

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 from 1766 to 1771. The second baronet was a judge and also sat as Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Warwickshire South. Another member of the family to gain distinction was Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot, second son of the first baronet. He was a Major-General in the army.

The Eardley-Wilmot family shares a common ancestry with the Wilmot Baronets of Osmaston

Wilmot Baronets

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 and the Wilmot Baronets of Chaddesden

Wilmot Baronets

There have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wilmot, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and two in the Baronetage of Great Britain. One creation is extant as of 2008....

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Eardley-Wilmot Baronets, of Berkswell Hall (1821)

• Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1783-1847)
• Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 2nd Baronet was a politician and judge in the United Kingdom.He served as Member of Parliament for South Warwickshire from 1874 to 1885.Sir John E...
  
  (1810-1892)
• Sir William Assheton Eardley-Wilmot, 3rd Baronet (1841-1896)
• Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 4th Baronet (1882-1970)
• Sir John Assheton Eardley-Wilmot, 5th Baronet (1917-1995)
• Sir Michael John Assheton Eardley-Wilmot, 6th Baronet (b. 1941)