Baron Ebury

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Barony of Ebury
Coronet of a British Baron.svg
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Arms of the Barons Ebury (pre 1999)
Arms: Azure, a Garb Or, a Mullet for difference. Crest: A Talbot statant Or. Supporters: On either side a Talbot reguardant Or, collared Azure, and charged on the shoulder with a Mullet Azure, for difference.
Creation date15 September 1857
Created by Queen Victoria
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder Lord Robert Grosvenor
Present holder Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton
Heir apparentJulian Grosvenor, Viscount Grey de Wilton
StatusExtant
Former seat(s) Moor Park
MottoVIRTUS NON STEMMA
(Virtue, not ancestry)
Note: since 1999, Baron Ebury has been a subsidiary title of the earldom of Wilton

Baron Ebury, of Ebury Manor in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that dates from 1857. [1] In 1999, it became a subsidiary title of the earldom of Wilton after the 6th Baron Ebury inherited the earldom from his distant cousin, the 7th Earl of Wilton.

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History

The peerage was created in September 1857 for the Whig politician Lord Robert Grosvenor. He was the third son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, and his wife Lady Eleanor Egerton, daughter of Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton.

Both Lord Robert and his elder brother Lord Thomas were in special remainder to the viscountcy of Grey de Wilton and the earldom of Wilton, created for their maternal grandfather in 1801. Upon the latter's death in 1814, Lord Thomas succeeded as second Earl of Wilton.

Lord Ebury was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He represented Westminster in Parliament as a Liberal. His grandson, the fifth Baron, served as a government whip from 1939 to 1940 in the government of Neville Chamberlain. In 1999, his eldest son, the sixth Baron, succeeded as eighth Earl of Wilton on the death of his kinsman, the seventh Earl.

The Honourable Norman Grosvenor, younger son of the first Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Chester.

Barons Ebury (1857)

For further barons, see Earl of Wilton.

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References

  1. "No. 22039". The London Gazette . 11 September 1857. p. 3075.