Baron Rosmead
Baron Rosmead , of Rosmead in the County of Westmeath and of Table Mountain in South Africa , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
The original family seat of the barons was Rosmead House in County Westmeath, Ireland .
Award and history of the title
The title was created on August 11, 1896 for the then Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner for South Africa , Sir Hercules Robinson, 1st Baronet . He had already been awarded the subordinate title of Baronet , of Ennismore Gardens in the Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, in the County of London on February 6, 1891 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom .
Both titles expired on the death of his only son, the 2nd Baron, on May 26, 1933, whose only son had died childless in 1915.
List of Barons Rosmead (1896)
- Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead (1824-1897)
- Hercules Robinson, 2nd Baron Rosmead (1866–1933)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The London Gazette : No. 26767, p. 4571 , August 11, 1896.
- ↑ The London Gazette: No. 26132, p. 680 , February 6, 1891.