Editing Baronet (section)

===Baronetage decline since 1965===
There were 1,490 baronetcies extant on 1 January 1965. Since then the number has reduced by 286 through extinction or dormancy: a gross decline of 19.2% (up to 2017). Extant baronetcies numbered about 1,236 in 2015,<ref name="Baronetage decline since 1965">{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/peerage-news/NCaywWTirWw|title=Baronetage decline since 1965|access-date=21 September 2015}}</ref> and 1,204 as of 2017.

Since 1965 only one new baronetcy has been created, for [[Denis Thatcher|Sir Denis Thatcher]] on 7 December 1990, husband of a former British prime minister, [[Margaret Thatcher]] (later Baroness Thatcher); their only son, [[Mark Thatcher|Sir Mark Thatcher]], succeeded as [[Thatcher baronets|2nd Baronet]] upon his father's death in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/essential-guide-to-the-peerage/the-baronetage.aspx|title=The Baronetage|publisher=Debretts|quote=The creation of baronetcies lapsed in 1964; in 1990 the Conservative Government announced that this honour would be given to Denis Thatcher, but there have been no further creations|access-date=13 April 2013|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225002039/http://www.debretts.com/people/essential-guide-to-the-peerage/the-baronetage.aspx|archive-date=25 February 2013}}</ref>

Seven baronetcies dormant in 1965 have since been revived: [[Innes baronets|Innes baronetcy, ''of Coxton'']] (1686), [[Nicolson baronets|Nicolson baronetcy of that Ilk and of Lasswade]] (1629), [[Hope baronets|Hope baronetcy, ''of Kirkliston'']] (1698), [[St John-Mildmay baronets|St John (''later'' St John-Mildmay) baronetcy, ''of Farley'']] (1772), [[Maxwell Macdonald baronets|Maxwell-Macdonald baronetcy of Pollok]] (1682),<ref name="Baronetage decline since 1965"/> [[Inglis baronets|Inglis baronetcy, ''of Cramond, Edinburgh'']] (1687) and [[Von Friesendorff baronets|Von Friesendorff baronetcy, ''of Hirdech, Sweden'']] (1661).