Baron Grenfell

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Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell from Celebrities of the Army , London 1900

Baron Grenfell , of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

history

The title was created on July 19, 1902 for the officer Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell . He had served especially in Egypt during the Urabi and Mahdi uprisings . He had been Sirdar in the Egyptian Army , later Governor of Malta and Commander in Chief in Ireland .

He was succeeded by his eldest son Pascoe. He was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords .

His son, the European politician Julian Grenfell , inherited the title in 1976. He lost his seat in the House of Lords through the House of Lords Act 1999 . He was raised on April 17, 2000 as Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Swansea and was able to take a seat in the House of Lords again. On March 31, 2014, he left the House of Lords at his own request.

List of Barons Grenfell (1902)

Probable title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the cousin of the current title holder, Richard Arthur St Leger Grenfell (* 1966).

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