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Lacon baronets

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The Lacon Baronetcy, of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 11 December 1818 for Edmund Lacon. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Norfolk. The third Baronet sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth and Norfolk North. The family seat has been Ormesby House in Ormesby St Michael.

Lacon baronets, of Great Yarmouth (1818)

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The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Luke Edmund Lacon (born 2001), only son of the 9th Baronet.[9]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Lacon baronets
Crest
A mount Vert thereon a falcon Proper beaked and belled Or charged on the breast with a cross flory and gorged with a collar Gules.
Escutcheon
Quarterly per fess indented Erminois and Azure in the second quarter a wolf’s head erased Or.
Motto
Probitas Verus Honos[10]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 17404". The London Gazette. 3 October 1818. p. 1767.
  2. ^ a b c Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 368.
  3. ^ "Lacon, Edmund Henry Knowles (LCN823EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "Lacon, Sir Edmund Broughton Knowles". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "Lacon, Sir Edmund Beecroft Francis Heathcote". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Lacon, Sir George Haworth Ussher". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ "Lacon, Sir George Vere Francis". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ "Lacon, Sir Edmund (Vere)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ^ a b "Lacon, Sir (Edmund) Richard (Vere)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1914.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Lacon baronets
of Great Yarmouth

11 December 1818
Succeeded by