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The Stokes baronetcy, of Lensfield Cottage in the Parish of Saint Paul in the Town of Cambridge, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 July 1889 for the Irish mathematician and physicist George Stokes.^[1]

The title became extinct on the death of the 2nd Baronet in 1916.^[2]

Stokes baronets, of Lensfield Cottage (1889)

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903)^[1]
Sir Arthur Stokes, 2nd Baronet (1858–1916)^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. pp. 1436–1437.
↑ Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, with the Knightage, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dean & Son, Ltd. 1931. p. 733.

Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Preceded by

Porter baronets

Stokes baronets
of Lensfield Cottage
6 July 1889

Succeeded by

Boehm baronets

[Burke-1] 1 2 3 Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. pp. 1436–1437.

[2] Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, with the Knightage, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dean & Son, Ltd. 1931. p. 733.

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