Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh

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Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh (born November 17, 1881 - † July 20, 1944 ), known from 1924 to 1935 as Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet , was a British nobleman, officer and politician of the Conservative Party .

Hesketh was the son of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet and Florence Emily Sharon , daughter of US Senator William Sharon . He was in Eton , the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and in the Trinity College of Cambridge University trained.

He served in the British Army as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards , as a captain in the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry and as an honorary major in the Territorial Army . He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and Northamptonshire . Hesketh sat for Enfield in the British House of Commons from 1922 to 1923 and was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1932 .

He followed his father in 1924 as 8th Baronet, Rufford in the County Palatine of Lancaster. In 1935 he was raised to hereditary peer as Baron Hesketh , of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

Lord Hesketh married Florence Louise Breckinridge of Kentucky in 1909 , daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge and granddaughter of United States General John C. Breckinridge , Vice President of the United States of America . They had three sons and two daughters (Flora and Louise). Their eldest son, Lieutenant Hon. Thomas Sharon Fermor-Hesketh , died in a plane crash in France in 1937 . Lord Hesketh died in July 1944 at the age of 62. His second son, Frederick , succeeded him as 2nd baron. His third son, John, married Patricia Macaskie Cole in 1946 . His widow died in 1956.

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  1. ^ A b Northamptonshire Libraries: Roland Holloway's Northamptonshire . Northamptonshire Libraries, Northamptonshire 1985, ISBN 0-905391-10-1 , pp. 130-133.
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Fermor-Hesketh Baronet, of Rufford
1924-1944 		Frederick Fermor-Hesketh
New title created Baron Hesketh
1935-1944 		Frederick Fermor-Hesketh
personal data
SURNAME Hesketh, Thomas Fermor-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1881
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1944