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NameSir Christopher Baynes Bart [87, pp. 550-556 and Table between pp. 562-3]
Birth6 Aug 1755, St Gabriel's parish, London
Death16 Mar 1837 [86]
BurialBath Abbey church (MI) [86]
General1st bt: 1801, Magistrate, Major, DL for Herts: 1793.
FatherWilliam Baynes (1721-1798)
MotherMary Roberts (1728-1797)
Notes for Sir Christopher Baynes Bart
Extracted from "The Baronetage of England" by the Rev Wm Betham published by Longman in 1801 in his entry for the Baynes baronetage:
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1773 went abroad to visit France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and The Netherlands.

1777 Back in England.  Lieutenant in First West Yorks Militia (commander Sir Geo Saville, Bt)

1777-78: Cornet in Horse Guards, Blues.

Mar 1778: Resigned from Blues and married

1791: Included in the commission of the peace for Mx

1796 ditto for Herts.

1793 Deputy Lieut for Mx.

1796 Unanimously recommended to be (and was then made) Major Commandant of the Uxbridge Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry.

1801, 4 Jun: Presented with "an elegant, costly sword" by the Uxbridge corps.

1801, June 29th: Created Bart
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From Bayne of Nidderdale:

1814-1822: Sold Harefield Place for £45,000

1815: Paralysed from the waist down for the rest of his life.

1822: Went to Bath for the rest of his life.
Arms Generally notes for Sir Christopher Baynes Bart
Arms: Sable, a shin-bone in fess, surmounted of another in pale, argent; on a canton, of the last, a vulture, proper.

Crest: A cubit arms, vested, azure, cuffed erminois the hand holding a jaw-bone argent

Supporters: Two savages, wreathed about the head and waist, with clubs over their arms, all proper.

Motto: Furor arma ministrat.

Seat: Harefield Place, Middlesex
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Armorial Blazon notes for Sir Christopher Baynes Bart
Sable, a shinbone in fesse, surmounted of another in pale argent, on a canton of the last, a vulture proper.
Blazon source notes for Sir Christopher Baynes Bart
College of Arms grants, Vol XXI, folio 189, c.1801.
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