The Tancred, later Lawson-Tancred Baronetcy, of Boroughbridge in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 17 November 1662 for Thomas Tancred. He was a descendant of Richard Tankard, who shortly after the Norman Conquest owned lands at BoroughbridgeinYorkshire, where the family remains.
The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Thomas Alexander Claude Lawson-Tancred (born on 17 June 2006)
Lawson-Tancred married (later Dame) Margery Ellinor, eldest daughter and co-heir of Andrew Sherlock Lawson, younger brother of Sir John Grant Lawson, 1st Baronet (see Lawson baronets). In 1914 he assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Lawson. He died before her but his free-to-distribute assets were probated at £21,777 (equivalent to about £1,100,000 in 2023), rounded, in 1946.[2]
