Baron Hesketh,of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh,8th Baronet,who had previously briefly represented Enfield in the House of Commons as a Conservative. As of 2010 the titles are held by his grandson,the third Baron,who succeeded his father in 1955. Lord Hesketh held junior ministerial positions in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. However,he lost his seat in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper chamber of Parliament.
Baron Jeffreys is a title that has been created twice,once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England on 16 May 1685 when the lawyer and later Lord Chancellor,Sir George Jeffreys,1st Baronet,was made Baron Jeffreys,of Wem. He had already been created a Baronet,of Bulstrode in the County of Buckingham,in the Baronetage of England in 1681. The titles became extinct on the death of his son,the second Baron,in 1702,who had no male heir:his daughter,the writer Henrietta Fermor,married the 1st Earl of Pomfret. The estates passed to Jeffreys' widow,Lady Charlotte Herbert,who later remarried as Viscountess Windsor.
Herbert Dixon,1st Baron Glentoran,OBE,PC (NI),DL was a Unionist politician from Ireland,present day Northern Ireland.
Earl of Pomfret was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1721 for Thomas Fermor,2nd Baron Leominster. It became extinct upon the death of the fifth earl in 1867.
Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh,3rd Baron Hesketh,KBE,PC is a British peer and UK Independence Party politician.
Frederick Mason Trench,2nd Baron Ashtown DL was an Irish peer and magistrate.
The Breckinridge family is a family of public figures from the United States. The family has included six members of the United States House of Representatives,two United States Senators,a cabinet member,two ambassadors,one United States Vice President,and one unsuccessful candidate for United States President. Breckinridges have served as college presidents,prominent ministers,soldiers,and theologians and in important positions at state and local levels. The family was most notable in Kentucky and most prominent during the 19th century,during nearly one third of which a member of the family served in the United States Congress.
Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh,7th Baronet was a British baronet and soldier.
Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh,5th Baronet was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1862 to 1872.
Sir Francis Oswald Lindley was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919,British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919–1920,Ambassador to Austria 1920–1921,Ambassador to Greece 1922–1923,Minister in Oslo 1923–1929,Ambassador to Portugal 1929–1931,and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931–1934. Lindley was described as "a rather tough old character in some respects and very outspoken in his likes and dislikes."
Frederick Fermor-Hesketh,2nd Baron Hesketh DL,was a British peer and soldier.
William Fermor,1st Baron Leominster,styled Sir William Fermor,2nd Baronet from 1661 to 1692,was an English politician and peer.
Christian Mary McEwen,Dowager Lady Hesketh,OBE,DL was a British politician,journalist and educationist.
Sir George Fermor of Easton Neston was an English soldier and landowner.
Sir Edmund Villiers Minshull Stockdale,1st Baronet was an English banker who served as the 632nd Lord Mayor of London from 1959 to 1960.
Cecil Baring,3rd Baron Revelstoke was an English banker and aristocrat.
Rupert Alexander Baring,4th Baron Revelstoke was a British landowner and peer.
John Baring,5th Baron Revelstoke was a British landowner and aristocrat who spent much of his life in Kenya.
Maude Lorillard Baring was an American heiress who married into the British Baring banking family.
John Witherspoon "Owen" Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician who served in the California State Assembly.
