Troubridge baronets

It was created on 30 November 1799 for Captain Thomas Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy, who later became an admiral.

Laura, Lady Troubridge, wife of the fourth baronet, was a writer for Mills and Boon and author of The Book of Etiquette (1926).

At the outbreak of the First World War he was second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet, but his career was blighted by the Goeben affair.

His estranged wife Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge was most famous as the partner of the author Radclyffe Hall.

Thomas Troubridge, a banker who was the first husband of Princess Michael of Kent, was a younger brother of the sixth baronet.