Redwood baronets

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.

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

• Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet (1846–1919)^[1]
  • Bernard Boverton Redwood (1874–1911), son of Sir Boverton Redwood^[2]
• Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood, 2nd Baronet (1906–1974)
• Sir Peter Boverton Redwood, 3rd Baronet (born 1937)

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]

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