TheTancred, laterLawson-Tancred Baronetcy, of Boroughbridge in the County of York, is a title in theBaronetage of England. It was created on 17 November 1662 for Thomas Tancred. He was a descendant of Richard Tankard, who shortly after theNorman Conquest owned lands atBoroughbridge inYorkshire, where the family remains.
Lawson-Tancred married (later Dame) Margery Ellinor, eldest daughter and co-heir of Andrew Sherlock Lawson, younger brother ofSir John Grant Lawson, 1st Baronet (seeLawson baronets). In 1914 he assumed bydeed 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]