Cunliffe baronets

The Cunliffe Baronetcy, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 26 March 1759 for Sir Ellis Cunliffe,^[2] a slave trader and Member of Parliament for Liverpool. The fourth Baronet was a General in the Bengal Army. The fifth Baronet represented Flint Boroughs and Denbigh Boroughs in the House of Commons.

Cunliffe baronets, of Liverpool (1759)

Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Kt., 1st Baronet (1717–1767)^[3]
Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet (1719–1778)^[3]
Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet (1755–1834)^[3]
Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet, Kt., CB (1785–1859)^[3]
Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet (1839–1905)^[3]^[4]
Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, 6th Baronet (1875–1916)^[3]^[5]
Sir Robert Neville Henry Cunliffe, 7th Baronet (1884–1949)^[3]^[6]
Sir Cyril Henley Cunliffe, 8th Baronet (1901–1969)^[7]
Sir David Ellis Cunliffe, 9th Baronet (born 1957)^[8]

The heir presumptive is the present holder's younger brother Andrew Mark Cunliffe (born 1959).^[8]

Three other members of the family may also be mentioned. George Gordon Cunliffe (1829-1900), son of Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a major-general in the British Army. His son Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe (1861–1955) was a brigadier-general in the Seaforth Highlanders. Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe, son of Colonel Foster Lionel Brooke, son of the aforementioned Brooke Cunliffe, fourth son of the third Baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy.

^ "Current Great Britain Baronetcies". Archived from the original on 21 October 2014.
^ "No. 9880". The London Gazette. 20 March 1759. p. 2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. pp. 525–527.
^ "Cunliffe, Sir Robert Alfred". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Cunliffe, Sir Foster Hugh Egerton". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Cunliffe, Sir Robert Neville Henry". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Cunliffe, Sir Cyril (Henley)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ ^a ^b "Cunliffe, Sir David Ellis". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)