Macara baronets
The Macara Baronetcy, of Ardmore in St Anne-on-the-Sea in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Lancashire cotton-spinner, Charles Macara. The title became extinct upon the death of the fourth Baronet in Dudley in 1986.
Macara baronets, of Ardmore (1911)
- Sir Charles Wright Macara, 1st Baronet (1845–1929) Cotton spinner and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday movement for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the first recorded charity street collection.[1] His wife, Lady Marion Macara, founded the Ladies Lifeboat Guild.
- Sir William Cowper Macara, 2nd Baronet (1875–1931)
- Sir (Charles) Douglas Macara, 3rd Baronet (1904–1982)
- Sir Hugh Kenneth Macara, 4th Baronet (1913–1986)
Notes
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets RNLI http://rnli.org/aboutus/historyandheritage/Pages/timeline/1886-southport-and-st-annes-lifeboats-disaster.aspx
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