The Stucley Baronetcy, of Affeton Castle

Affeton Castle

Affeton Castle is a surviving late-medieval gatehouse near East Worlington, Devon, England which overlooks the Little Dart River in Devon and was originally built from grey rubble stone by the Stucley Baronets in around 1434. Originally part of a large manor complex, this castellated gatehouse, 60...

 in the County of Devon, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 26 April 1859 for George Stucley

Sir George Stucley, 1st Baronet

Sir George Stucley Stucley, 1st Baronet , known as George Buck until 1858, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament....

, Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Barnstaple

Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency)

Barnstaple was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Barnstaple in Devon, in the South West of England. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, when its representation was reduced to one member.The constituency...

 from 1855 to 1857. Born George Buck, he had assumed by Royal license the surname of Stucley in lieu of his patronymic in 1858 as lineal representative of the ancient Stucley family. This family, which possessed Affeton Castle in Devon

Devon

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 for over 600 years, originally came from the village of Stukeley in Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire

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, and were sheriffs of that county during the reign of King John

John of England

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. The family are descended from Thomas Stucley, who was allegedly the illegitimate son of Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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. The fifth Baronet served as a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 and High Sheriff

High Sheriff

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 of Devon.

Stucley Baronets, of Affeton Castle (1859)

• Sir George Stucley Stucley, 1st Baronet
  Sir George Stucley, 1st Baronet
  Sir George Stucley Stucley, 1st Baronet , known as George Buck until 1858, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament....
  
   (1812–1900)
• Sir William Lewis Stucley, 2nd Baronet (1836–1911)
• Sir Edward Arthur George Stucley, 3rd Baronet (1852–1927)
• Sir Hugh Nicholas Granville Stucley, 4th Baronet (1873–1956)
• Sir Dennis Frederic Bankes Stucley, 5th Baronet (1907–1983)
• Sir Hugh George Copplestone Bampfylde Stucley, 6th Baronet
  Sir Hugh George Copplestone Bampfylde Stucley, 6th Baronet
  Sir Hugh George Copplestone Bampfylde Stucley, 6th Baronet is the only son of the late Major Sir Dennis Frederic Bankes Stucley, 5th Baronet, and the late Sheila, Hon. Lady Stucley...
  
  (b. 1945)