Thursby baronets

The Thursby Baronetcy, of Ormerod House in the Parish of Burnley in the County Palatine of Lancaster and of Holmhurst in the Parish of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 26 July 1887 for the benefactor Colonel John Thursby.

The Thursby fortune was made from coal mining in Lancashire.

The third baronet, Sir George Thursby, was a founding member of the British Field Sports Society, an amateur jockey and Master of the New Forest Buck Hounds. In 1916, he built Fountain Court near Bramshaw an Arts and Crafts manor house.^[1] Queen Mary often visited during Cowes Week to stay with her friend Lady Thursby.^[2]

The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1941.

Thursby baronets, of Ormerod House and Holmhurst (1887)

• Sir John Hardy Thursby, 1st Baronet (1826–1901)
• Sir John Ormerod Scarlett Thursby, 2nd Baronet (1861–1920)
• Sir George James Thursby, 3rd Baronet (1869–1941)

• Thurbsy baronets, of Ormerod Hous and Holmhurst
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  Caricature of Sir John Ormerod Scarlett Thursby, 2nd Baronet (1861–1920), published in Vanity Fair, August 28, 1907

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  Caricature of Sir George James Thursby, 3rd Baronet (1869–1941)

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