Robert's grandfather was given the baronetcy after the war.
Cecil's actions over the baronetcies also run contrary to what we might expect.
Desmond, now the heir to a baronetcy, goes home to take charge of a family still suffering from its worldliness; his two sisters have married for money.
My own proposal would be to limit the peerages to two a year and the baronetcies to four a year.
If they are not lords, people can have a baronetcy and become a knight.
We have been told subsequently to these deaths that a knighthood cost between £10,000 and £12,000 and a baronetcy anywhere between £25,000 and £40,000.
If he were awarded a baronetcy, how his name would be immortalised.
He will get a baronetcy if he carries on like this.
Are we entitled to ask whether a change of policy on the award of hereditary baronetcies has taken place?
