Baron Haldon

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Baron Haldon, of Haldon, in the County of Devon, [1] was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 29 May 1880, for Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet and became extinct upon the death of the fifth baron in 1939. Haldon House was the family seat.

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Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782)

Barons Haldon (1880–1939)

Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782), continued

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Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon, known as Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet from 1860 to 1880, was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk, 3rd Baronet of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, near Exeter in Devon, was a landowner and Member of Parliament for Ashburton, Devon, from 1818 to 1831.

References

  1. "No. 24838". The London Gazette . 27 April 1880. p. 2725.
  2. Hesilrige 1921, p. 432.

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