Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre is a hereditary British title of nobility awarded four times in the Peerage of England .

Awards

First award

The barony was created on May 15, 1321 for Ralph Dacre when he was called to Parliament by Writ of Summons .

The dignity was stripped of the 9th Baron in 1541 when he was convicted of alleged murder and executed. In 1558, however, the title was reinstated for his son by the Act of Parliament .

The 15th Baron was also elevated to Earl of Sussex on October 5, 1674 , but left no sons, so that the Earldom was extinguished on his death in 1715. The Barony Dacre, however, as Barony by writ , could also be inherited in the female line and fell between his two daughters in Abeyance . When the older daughter died childless in 1741, the younger was given the title of 16th baroness.

Before the future 23rd Baron inherited the title from his childless brother in 1890, he had already been elevated to Viscount Hampden , of Glynde in the County of Sussex, on March 4, 1884 , after having been Speaker of the House of Commons for many years . When the 4th Viscount left no sons when he died in 1965, the Viscount dignity fell to his younger brother David Brand as the 5th Viscount, while the Barony of Dacre in Abeyance fell between his two daughters. The Abeyance was ended in 1970 in favor of the older daughter as the 27th baroness . Today's title holder has been her granddaughter Emily Douglas-Home as the 29th Baroness since 2014 .

Second to fourth awards

In parallel to the aforementioned title, the dignity of Baron Dacre was awarded three more times in the Peerage of England.

The first time this happened on October 9, 1459, when Sir Ralph Dacre , the second son of the 6th Baron Dacre, was called to Parliament by Writ of Summons. He was Lord of Gilsland in Northern England. To distinguish it from the Barony of 1321, his title was also called Baron Dacre of the North and the elder Baron Dacre of the South . In the course of the Wars of the Roses he fell on the side of the House of Lancaster at the Battle of Towton in 1461 and was posthumously ostracized for high treason because of his fight against the House of York , whereby the title became void.

On April 8, 1473, the title was recreated for his younger brother, the third son of the 6th Baron, Sir Humphrey Dacre . In the meantime he had inherited his brother's possessions in Gilsland. To distinguish it from the barony of 1321, his title is called Baron Dacre of Gilsland . At the death of his great-great grandson, the 5th baron, on May 17, 1569, the title in Abeyance fell between his three sisters. However, it is disputed whether the title was not bestowed by Letters patent instead of Writ of Summons , and was therefore hereditary only in the male line and expired in 1569.

On April 30, 1661, the title of Baron Dacre of Gillesland , of Gillesland in the County of Cumberland , was bestowed on Charles Howard . He was a great-grandson of the youngest sister of the 5th Baron of the Bestowal of 1473. Along with the Barony, he was bestowed the parent titles of Earl of Carlisle and Viscount Howard of Morpeth , of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland. Today's holder of this title has been his descendant George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle , since 1994 .

Life peerage

Most recently, on September 27, 1979, the title Baron Dacre of Glanton , of Glanton in the County of Northumberland , was bestowed on the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper as Life Peerage in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . He was a great-great-great-great-grandson of the 16th Baroness. The title expired on his death in 2003.