The Troubridge Baronetcy, of Plymouth, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 30 November 1799 for Captain Thomas Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy, who later became an admiral. The second baronet was also a Royal Navy admiral and sat as Member of Parliament for Sandwich. The third baronet fought with distinction in the Crimean War, in which he was severely wounded.
The family surname is pronounced "Troobridge".
Edward Norwich Troubridge, second son of the second baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy. Laura, Lady Troubridge, wife of the fourth baronet, was a writer for Mills and Boon and author of The Book of Etiquette (1926). Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge (1862–1926), was a younger son of the third baronet and grandfather of the sixth. 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.
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