Redwood baronets

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The Redwood Baronetcy, of Avenue Road in St Marylebone, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 July 1911 for Boverton Redwood. He was a leading expert on petroleum and an adviser to the Admiralty, India Office and Home Office. He was Director of Technical Investigation at the Petroleum Executive 1917-19.

Sir Boverton Redwood (1st Baronet) caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair (UK) in 1908. The image is captioned "Petroleum".

The third Baronet is a retired Colonel in the King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Redwood baronets, of Avenue Road (1911)

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The heir presumptive is the present holder's half-brother Robert Boverton Redwood (born 1953). The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son James Boverton Redwood (born 1985).

Coat of arms of Redwood baronets
 
Crest
A rock, thereon an eagle rising Proper charged on each wing with a mullet of six points in the beak a staff raguly Or.
Escutcheon
Paly of six Or and Ermine a lion rampant Sable on a chief Azure an embattled gateway Proper between two mullets of six points of the first.
Motto
Lumen Sevimus Antique[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Thomas Boverton Redwood
  2. ^ Bernard Boverton Redwood
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

References

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