Ricketts baronets

Escutcheon of the Ricketts baronets of The Elms

The Ricketts Baronetcy, of The Elms in the county of Gloucester and Beaumont Leys in the county of Leicester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 February 1828 for Vice-Admiral Robert Ricketts.

The second Baronet was an admiral in the Royal Navy and appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1851. He married, firstly, Henrietta Plumbe Tempest in 1834, and, secondly, Lady Caroline Augusta Pelham-Clinton, daughter of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle in 1852.

The 3rd Baronet (only child of Henrietta Plumbe Tempest) inherited in 1884 the assets of wealthier aunt and uncle Catherine and Thomas Plumbe-Tempest and assumed by Royal licence the same year the surname of Tempest; thus borne by his son and daughter, who re-assumed it as a condition of her unmarried brother's Will. Tempest and associated wealth would not pass to the 5th baronets onwards, as the 5th was the younger brother of the 3rd baronet. This stands as the only passing of the title into a junior branch. The 9th Baronet is six generations beneath the 1st Baronet.

The National Archives holds papers from 1855-1920 from the family.

Ricketts baronets, of The Elms and Beaumont Leys (1828)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Freddy Tristram Ricketts (born 2010).

Notes

  1. ↑ Acquired and converted for pauper children from 1882, then replaced by Popes Close, off Swindon Road, Cheltenham
  2. ↑ Acquired by Leicester Corporation for sewage treatment and sludge products in 1901
  3. ↑ Probate resworn 1909 - died 1909 'of Tong Hall, Bradford' - at £87,799 (equivalent to about £9,040,000 in 2025), with executors and chief heirs his sister and her husband, on condition they retake and take the surname (Tempest).
  4. ↑ Probate resworn the following year - died 1937 'of Mill Croft, Marine Drive, Rottingdean' - at £2,807 (equivalent to about £170,000 in 2025) 'save as to settled land'.
  5. ↑ The seventh Baronet married Theresa Cripps, daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps and thus granddaughter of the man created Lord Parmoor.

Citations

  1. ↑ "The Workhouse in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire". Workhouses.org.uk.
  2. ↑ "Hunt & co.'s city of Gloucester and Cheltenham directory & court guide". p. 43. Retrieved 3 July 2022 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Beaumont Leys Estate Documents". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  4. ↑ "Person Page". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "The Discovery Service". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  6. 1 2 Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. pp. 527–528.
  7. ↑ "Tempest, Sir Robert Tempest". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. 1 2 "Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales)". Probatesearch.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  9. ↑ Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, Obituaries, 25 January 1909, p. 18
  10. ↑ "Tempest, Sir Tristram Tempest". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ↑ "Ricketts, Sir Frederick William Rodney". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ↑ "Ricketts, Sir Claude Albert Frederick". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ↑ "Ricketts, Sir Robert (Cornwallis Gerald St Leger)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ↑ "Sir Tristram Ricketts, Bt – Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph.
  15. ↑ "Ricketts, Sir (Robert) Tristram". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  16. 1 2 "Ricketts, Sir Stephen Tristram". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)