Birkin baronets

It was created on 25 July 1905 for the businessman Thomas Isaac Birkin.

[1] He was a lace manufacturer, director of the Great Northern Railway and the Mercantile Steamship Company.

As of 2007 the title is held by the latter's son, the sixth Baronet, who succeeded in 1985.

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is the 6th Baronet's eldest son, Benjamin Charles Birkin (b.

Coat of arms: Argent, a cross raguly couped vert, in the first and fourth quarters a bee volant and in the second and third a birchtree eradicated all proper.