Lawson-Tancred baronets


The Tancred, later Lawson-Tancred Baronetcy, of Boroughbridge in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 17 November 1662 for Thomas Tancred. He was a descendant of Richard Tankard, who shortly after the Norman Conquest owned lands at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire, where the family remains.

Tancred, later Lawson-Tancred baronets, of Boroughbridge (1662)

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Thomas Alexander Claude Lawson-Tancred

Sir Thomas Selby Tancred, 8th Baronet

Lawson-Tancred married Margery Ellinor, eldest daughter and co-heir of Andrew Sherlock Lawson, younger brother of Sir John Grant Lawson, 1st Baronet. In 1914 he assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Lawson. He died before her but his free-to-distribute assets were probated at, rounded, in 1946.