Fowke baronets

Arms of Fowke baronets of Lowesby: Vert, a fleur-de-lys argent[1]

The Fowke Baronetcy, of Lowesby in the County of Leicester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[2] It was created on 7 February 1814 for Frederick Gustavus Fowke of Lowesby Hall, Lowesby, near Leicester. He was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Fowke, Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Cumberland. His grandfather was Lieutenant-General Thomas Fowke, Governor of Gibraltar.[3] The family surname is pronounced "Foke".

Fowke baronets, of Lowesby (1814)

the Fowke family moved to Upcott Farm in the parish of Bishops Tawton, Devon.[1] The 3rd Baronet's sister, Betty Mirabelle Fowke (born 1912) married into the Chichester family of Hall, Bishop's Tawton, Devon.[1] There is no heir to the baronetcy.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Debrett's Peerage, 1967, p.315
  2. The London Gazette: no. 16782. p. 1941. 28 September 1813.
  3. Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage: Containing the Family Histories of the Nobility (Digitized by GoogleBooks 11 June 2006 ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 686. OCLC 7806271.
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