Wells baronets

{{short description|Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom}}

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There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wells, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extinct.

• The Wells baronetcy of Upper Grosvenor Street in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 May 1883 for the prominent surgeon Thomas Spencer Wells.{{London Gazette |issue=25229 |date=11 May 1888 |page=2495}} When a baronetcy becomes vacant, the heir is required to register the proofs of succession with the Lord Chancellor to be accorded the precedence of a baronet. Upon the death of the childless fourth Baronet in 1945, his younger brother and heir, Preston A. Wells Sr., did not exhibit proofs of succession and effectively disclaimed the title.{{cite web |last=Bavistar |first=Grant |title=Guidance Notes on Succession to a Baronetcy Other Than Those of Scottish Territorial Designation or Nova Scotian Creation |url=http://www.baronetage.org/justice1.htm |date=July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912143736/http://www.baronetage.org/justice1.htm |archive-date=12 September 2007 |publisher=Ministry of Justice, Crown Office |access-date=16 April 2025}} The baronetcy fell into abeyance, but can be revived at any time on provision of acceptable proofs of succession.{{cite book |editor-last=Ward |editor-first=Inna |title=Whittaker's Almanac |date=2005 |at=p. 83 {{lang|la|et seq.}} |publisher=A. & C. Black}}
• The Wells baronetcy of Felmersham in the County of Bedford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 21 January 1944 for Richard Wells,{{London Gazette |issue=36309 |date=1 January 1944 |page=1 |supp=y}} who represented Bedford in the House of Commons as a Unionist from 1922 to 1945. As of 2007 the title is held by his grandson, the third Baronet, who succeeded his father in 1996.
• The Wells baronetcy of Hove in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 November 1948 for Frederick Wells,{{London Gazette |issue=38471 |date=3 December 1948 |page=6303}} Lord Mayor of London from 1947 to 1948. The title became extinct on his death in 1966.