The Loraine Baronetcy, of Kirk Harle in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 26 September 1664 for Thomas Loraine, High Sheriff of Northumberland

High Sheriff of Northumberland

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. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament

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 for Northumberland

Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The third Baronet was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1742, the fourth Baronet in 1774 and the fifth Baronet in 1814. The eleventh Baronet was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. The twelfth Baronet was a distinguished diplomat. The title became extinct on his death in 1961.

The Loraines trace their ancestry back to Robert de Loraine a Norman knight who arrived in England with William the Conqueror

William I of England

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. The Northumbrian estate at Kirkharle Hall

Kirkharle Hall

Kirkharle Hall was a country house at Kirkharle, Northumberland, England, the former seat of the Loraine family, now much reduced and in use as a farmhouse...

 was acquired when William Loraine married the Strother heiress of Kirk Harle early in the 15th century. Capability Brown

Capability Brown

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 was born at Kirk Harle and was employed as a youth on the estate by the second Baronet.

Loraine Baronets, of Kirk Harle (1664)

• Sir Thomas Loraine, 1st Baronet (1638-1718)
• Sir William Loraine, 2nd Baronet (1658-1744)
• Sir Charles Loraine, 3rd Baronet (1701-1755)
• Sir William Loraine, 4th Baronet (1749-1809)
• Sir Charles Loraine, 5th Baronet (1779-1833)
• Sir William Loraine, 6th Baronet (1801-1849)
• Sir Charles Vincent Loraine, 7th Baronet (1807-1850)
• Sir Henry Claude Loraine, 8th Baronet (1812-1851)
• Sir William Loraine, 9th Baronet (1780-1851)
• Sir John Lambton Loraine, 10th Baronet (1784-1852)
• Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet (1838-1917)
• Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, 12th Baronet
  Sir Percy Loraine, 12th Baronet
  Sir Percy Loraine, 12th Baronet, KCMG, PC was a British diplomat.Educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford, Loraine fought in the Second Boer War in Southern Africa. In 1904, he joined the foreign service. He first served in the Middle East, at the British missions in Istanbul and Tehran,...
  
  (1880-1961)