The Every Baronetcy, of Egginton

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 in the County of Derby

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, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 26 May 1641 for Simon Every

Sir Simon Every, 1st Baronet

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, Member of Parliament

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 for Leicester

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 in 1640 and a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War

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. Originally of Chardstock, Dorset

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, he married Anne, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Leigh, of Egginton

Egginton

Egginton is a village in the local government district of South Derbyshire, England. It is located just off Ryknild Street, otherwise known as the A38, between Derby and Stretton, Burton upon Trent. It is historically a farming community...

, Derbyshire

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. After his marriage Every settled at Egginton.

The fourth Baronet was a Captain

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 in the Royal Navy

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 and a supporter of William III

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. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire

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 in 1718. The fifth Baronet was Rector of Eggington and of Navenby

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, Lincolnshire

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. The sixth Baronet was High Sheriff of Derbyshire

High Sheriff of Derbyshire

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 in 1749. The seventh Baronet was Rector of Waddington, Lincolnshire. The eighth Baronet was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1783. The current baronet was High Sheriff for 2009.

The family seat Egginton Hall burnt down in 1736. It was replaced by the eighth Baronet (the great great grandson of the fourth Baronet) with a new house which was demolished in the 1950s.

Every Baronets, of Egginton (1642)

• Sir Simon Every, 1st Baronet
  Sir Simon Every, 1st Baronet
  Sir Simon Every, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He was a supporter of the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
  
  (1603-1647)
• Sir Henry Every, 2nd Baronet (1629-1700)
• Sir Henry Every, 3rd Baronet (1653-1709)
• Sir John Every, 4th Baronet (1654-1729)
• Sir Simon Every, 5th Baronet (1658-1753)
• Sir Henry Every, 6th Baronet (1708-1755)
• Sir John Every, 7th Baronet (1708-1779)
• Sir Edward Every, 8th Baronet (1754-1786)
• Sir Henry Every, 9th Baronet (1777-1855)
• Sir Henry Flower Every, 10th Baronet (1830-1893)
• Sir Edward Oswald Every, 11th Baronet (1886-1959)
• Sir John Simon Every, 12th Baronet (1914-1988)
• Sir Henry John Michael Every, 13th Baronet (b. 1947)