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Pound baronets

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Pound baronets
CrestA castle of two towers Proper thereon an escutcheon Argent charged with a sword erect as in the arms.
ShieldArgent a sword erect Gules debruised by a fess of the last charged with three mullets of the first and between in chief two boars' heads erased Sable.
MottoFide Et Vigilantia[1]

The Pound Baronetcy, of Stanmore in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 August 1905 for John Pound, then head of luggage manufacturers John Pound and Co. and also chairman of the London General Omnibus Company, who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1904 to 1905.[2]

Pound baronets, of Stanmore (1905)

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The heir presumptive is the current baronet's brother, Christopher James Pound (born 1982)

Notes

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  1. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.
  2. ^ "The Motor Omnibus World. | 19th March 1908 | the Commercial Motor Archive".
  3. ^ "Sir John Pound, Bt". The Telegraph. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2023.

References

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  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
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