Boyd baronets of Danson (1775)

The Boyd baronetcy, of Danson in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 2 June 1775 for John Boyd.^[1] He was a sugar merchant and vice-chairman of the British East India Company; he was also a plantation owner on St Kitts, and built the mansion of Danson Hill near Bexleyheath.^[2][3][4]

He was succeeded by his son, the 2nd Baronet. He represented Wareham in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1784.^[5] In 1807 he had the Danson Hill estate sold.^[6] The title descended from father to son until the death of his great-grandson, the 5th Baronet, in 1857. The 6th Baronet, a cleric, was his uncle; on his death in 1889 the baronetcy became extinct.^[2][7]