Baron Thurlow

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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Baron Thurlow is a hereditary British title of nobility awarded twice in the Peerage of Great Britain .

Awards

For the first time on June 3, 1778 the title of Baron Thurlow , of Ashfield in the County of Suffolk , was created for the House of Commons and Attorney General Edward Thurlow , on the occasion of his appointment as Lord Chancellor .

Since Lord Thurlow was unmarried and childless when he left the office of Lord Chancellor, on June 11, 1792, he was awarded the second title of Baron Thurlow , of Thurlow in the County of Suffolk, this time with the special addition that the title in Lack of own male descendants also to the two sons of his brother Thomas Thurlow, who died in 1791, Prince-Bishop of Durham , namely Edward Thurlow (1781-1829) and Rev. Thomas Thurlow (1788-1874), and their male descendants, and then to his son 1792 deceased brother John Thurlow, Rev. Edward South Thurlow († 1847) and his male descendants is hereditary. Accordingly, the title of baron from 1792 fell to his nephew Edward Thurlow when the 1st Baron died on September 12, 1806, while the title of baron from 1778 expired.

Today's title holder has been his great-great-great-grandson Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce as the 9th Baron since 2013 .

List of Barons Thurlow

Barone Thurlow, first award (1778)

Barone Thurlow, second bestowal (1792)

Estimated heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current title holder, Hon. Nicholas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce (* 1986).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 11880, p. 1 , June 2, 1778.
  2. ^ The London Gazette: 13424, 396 , June 9, 1792.

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