Furnese Baronets
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The Furnese Baronetcy, of Waldershare in the County of Kent, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 27 June 1707 for Henry Furnese, a financier and Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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 for Bramber
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 and Sandwich
Sandwich (UK Parliament constituency)
Sandwich was a parliamentary constituency in Kent, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1366 until 1885, when it was disfranchised for corruption.-History:...

. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Truro, New Romney
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 and Kent
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Kent was a parliamentary constituency covering the county of Kent in southeast England. It returned two "knights of the shire" to the House of Commons by the bloc vote system from the year 1290...

. The title became extinct on the early death of the third Baronet in 1735.

Furnese Baronets, of Waldershare (1707)

  • Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet (1658–1712)
  • Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet
    Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet
    Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1733.Furnese was the son of Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet, of Gunnersbury House, and his first wife Anne Brough, daughter of Robert Brough.In 1708 Furnese was elected MP for Truro and held the...

    (1687–1733)
  • Sir Henry Furnese, 3rd Baronet (c. 1716 – 1735)
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