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.
Sir George Clerk of Pennycuik,6th Baronet was a Scottish politician who served as the Tory MP for Edinburghshire,Stamford and Dover.
Lancaster was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1867,centred on the historic city of Lancaster in north-west England. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until the constituency was disenfranchised for corruption in 1867.
Sir Edmund Beckett-Denison,4th Baronet was a railway promoter and politician.
Thomas Grey Egerton,1st Earl of Wilton,known as Sir Thomas Grey Egerton,Bt from 1766 to 1784,was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1772 to 1784 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Grey de Wilton.
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland,11th Baronet,FRS was a British educational reformer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1886 initially as a Tory and later,after an eighteen-year gap,as a Liberal.
Thomas Taylour,1st Marquess of Headfort,styled Viscount Headford from 1766 to 1795,and known as The Earl of Bective from 1795 to 1800,was an Irish peer and politician.
Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine was a French officier de plume of the Ministry of the Navy and Colonies and was an colonial administrator in French India.
Sir Charles Whitworth was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 31 years from 1747 to 1778. He was known for his expertise in statistics and finance.
Sir Henry Russell,1st Baronet was a British lawyer. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1816,during the reign of George III. The Russell baronetcy of Swallowfield in Berkshire,was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 December 1812 for him. Russell was the Chief Justice of Bengal.
Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh,5th Baronet was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1862 to 1872.
Whittington Hall is a country house located to the west of the village of Whittington,Lancashire,England,some 3 km south of Kirkby Lonsdale. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Sir Francis Bindlosse was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1628.
James Verner was an MP in the Parliament of Ireland from County Antrim,Kingdom of Ireland. He was father to Sir William Verner,1st Baronet. He and his sons played an instrumental role in the Battle of the Diamond near their home.
John Studholme Brownrigg was an English merchant and British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1847.
Sir Robert Frankland-Russell,7th Baronet (1784–1849) was an English politician,known also as an artist. In early life he was called Robert Frankland.
Sir Edmund Charles Workman-Macnaghten,2nd Baronet was an Irish baronet and Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Antrim from 1847 to 1852.
Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge,2nd Baronet (1778–1849) of Sandhill Park in the parish of Bishops Lydeard and of Royal Crescent,in Bath,both in Somerset,was an English politician and soldier.
William Wyndham JP DL (1796–1862),sometimes numbered William Wyndham V,was a Wiltshire landowner and Member of Parliament.
Sir Henry Russell,2nd Baronet,was an English diplomat and landowner.
