Cunliffe baronets
Title in the Baronetage of Great Britain
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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]
Extended family
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.