Baron Hesketh

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Rufford Old Hall , the original home of the Hesketh family

Baron Hesketh , of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster , is a hereditary British title of nobility from the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on January 25, 1935 for Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet , who had represented the London borough of Enfield in the House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party from 1922 to 1923 . His grandson, Alexander , who succeeded his father in 1955, has held the title since 2010 . The current Lord Hesketh held positions in the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major . He lost his seat in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 abolished the automatic right of hereditary peers to a seat in the British Parliament.

The 1st Baron had inherited the title of 8th Baronet , of Rufford in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1924 . This was created on May 5, 1761 in the Baronetage of Great Britain for Thomas Hesketh . This was followed in 1778 by his brother Robert Hesketh . His great-great-grandson, the 5th Baronet, sat for the Conservative Party , constituency of Preston in the Parliament of the United Kingdom . He was a grandfather of the future Baron Hesketh.

Family seats

The former family seat of the Barons Hesketh was Easton Neston near Towcester in Northamptonshire . This country house was previously the family seat of the Fermor ( Earls of Pomfret since 1721) and came into existence in 1867 when George Fermor, 5th Earl of Pomfret died, through his sister and heir Lady Anna Maria Isabella Fermor , who had lived with Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th since 1846 Baronet , who was married, to the Hesketh family. However, the property was sold in 2005 by the current Baron Hesketh.

The original home of the Hesketh family, Rufford Old Hall in the village of Rufford in Lancashire . This property was sold to the National Trust in 1936 by 1st Baron Hesketh. Other former properties of the Hesketh family are:

List of Hesketh Baronets and Barons Hesketh

Hesketh Baronets, of Rufford (1761)

  • Sir Thomas Hesketh, 1st Baronet (1727–1778)
  • Sir Robert Hesketh, 2nd Baronet (1728–1798)
  • Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, 3rd Baronet (1777–1842)
  • Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh, 4th Baronet (1799–1843)
  • Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet (1825–1872)
  • Sir Thomas Henry Fermor-Hesketh, 6th Baronet (1847–1876)
  • Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet (1849-1924)
  • Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet (1881–1944) (promoted to Baron Hesketh in 1935 )

Barons Hesketh (1935)

Heir apparent is the son of the current owner , the Hon. Frederick Hatton Fermor-Hesketh (* 1988).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34128, HMSO, London, January 29, 1935, p. 693 ( PDF , English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 10103, HMSO, London, May 9, 1761, p. 1 ( PDF , English).