Baron Faringdon

Baron Faringdon , of Buscot Park in the County of Berks , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

The family residences of the barons are Buscot Park near Faringdon in what is now Oxfordshire and Barnsley House near Cirencester in Gloucestershire .

Award

The title was created on January 24, 1916 for the Liberal Unionist MP and Railway Manager Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet . This had already been awarded the subordinate title Baronet , of Buscot Park in the County of Berks, on August 5, 1902 .

Today's title holder has been his great-grandson Charles Henderson as 3rd Baron since 1977 .

List of Barons Faringdon (1916)

• Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon (1850–1934)
• Alexander Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (1902–1977)
• Charles Henderson, 3rd Baron Faringdon (* 1937)

The heir ( Heir Apparent ) is the son of the current title holder, Hon. James Henderson (* 1961).

Web links

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• Faringdon, Baron (UK, 1916) at Cracroft's Peerage

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} The London Gazette : No. 29454, p. 1126 , January 28, 1916.
2. ^ The London Gazette: No. 27457, p. 4738 , July 25, 1902.