O'Brien Baronetcy, of Merrion Square

[Robert Jewell]

This Baronetcy is shown as dormant on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, and the natural heir and possible claimant seems to be Timothy John O'Brien, grandson of the 6th Baronet.

Wikipedia has this:

The O'Brien Baronetcy, of Merrion Square in Dublin and Boris-in-Ossory in Queen's County, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 September 1849 for Timothy O'Brien. He was a merchant, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Liberal Member of Parliament for Cashel. The second Baronet represented King's County in the House of Commons as a Liberal for over thirty years. The third Baronet was Lord Lieutenant of County Cork. 

In 2017 the seventh and present Baronet (Devin James Connor O’Brien) claimed succession and was listed in the Official Roll of the Baronetage. The baronetcy was considered temporarily dormant from 2013 to 2017 while this claim was verified.

What is going on here?

[Henry W]

The Kershaw list gives Timothy John O'Brien as the presumed baronet, but not on the official roll.  Whilst this list is published through the Standing Council of the Baronetage, it explicitly states inclusion is not recognition by the SCB.

I think the title has been dormant since 1982 and the death of the 6th Baronet.  The notes in wikipedia regarding "temporarily dormant" are almost certainly not true.

[Henry W]

False information was introduced by an IP editor in April 2021 - they only edited this one article it appears, and the reference to Devin was placed in the preamble text at this point.  In May 2023, Devin then was placed in the list of baronets supplanting Timothy.

Another editor (I think one of our number - Jelena maybe?) corrected the list this morning, and I have just corrected the preamble text.

[Robert Jewell]

That was what I suspected. Perhaps it was someone named Devin O'Brien who put in the false edit -) . Anyhow, nice to have it cleared up. Thanks. My protracted ramble through the baronetcy bore fruit.