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    of the United Kingdom. The titles became extinct upon the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1919. Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe was...
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    of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, a Conservative politician, who was elevated to the House of Lords in 1938. Colonel Albert Brassey (1844–1918)...
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    Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (7 March 1870 – 22 October 1958), DL (known from 1922 to 1938 as Sir Henry Brassey, 1st...
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    Apethorpe, Northamptonshire Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (1870–1958) Bernard Thomas Brassey, 2nd Baron Brassey of Apethorpe...
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    whom he had five sons and seven daughters, including: Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, second but eldest surviving son and heir, a Conservative...
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  • British Member of Parliament Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (1870–1958), British Conservative politician Hugh Trefusis Brassey (1915–1990)...
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    Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and Henry Brassey were his elder brothers and Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, his nephew. He was educated at Eton...
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    Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (1874–1946), who married Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, of Apethorpe, in 1894. Lord Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox (1875–1949)...
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    brother of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe. His grandfather Thomas Brassey had made a huge fortune as a railway engineer. Brassey commissioned...
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    of Richmond, Lady Evelyn Gordon-Lennox (wife of Sir John Cotterell, 4th Baronet), Lady Violet Gordon-Lennox (wife of Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey...
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  • Violet Mary Gordon-Lennox (1874–1946), who married Major Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, and had children Brigadier-General Lord Esmé Gordon-Lennox...
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  • and Sir Harold Nicolson, and great-grandson of Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Eaton House, Summer...
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  • Ryland Dent Adkins, 29 July 1922. Major Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, 29 July 1922. Colonel Henry Wickham, 29 July 1922. Sir Arthur Richard...
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  • woodworker, and Green Party member. In 2002 she succeeded her father as the Baron Simon of Wythenshawe. In 2015 she came out as a transgender woman. Her claim...
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    Henry Fromanteel Lytton Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold (born 12 May 1962), is a British screenwriter. He is the current occupant of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire...
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    of John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield and 1st Baron Egremont, and Pamela Wyndham-Quin, and succeeded his father in 1972. He is a direct descendant of...
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  • Henderson, 3rd Baron Faringdon, KCVO (born 1937) is a British peer, stockbroker and courtier. Henderson was born in 1937, the son of Oonagh Brassey (whose grandparents...
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    great-grandfather Thomas Shaughnessy, the 1st Baron Shaughnessy, was an American-Canadian railway administrator of Irish descent. Charles inherited the title...
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    Reginald Blomfield (category Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects)
    Hudson Kearley, 1903 Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire: alterations and additions, and new gardens, for Leonard Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, 1904 Knowlton Court...
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  • Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh, died aged 39. His mother, Christian Mary McEwen, Dowager Lady Hesketh, served as the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire...
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  • 4th son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington 2nd son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford 2nd son of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre...
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    VIII, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, PC, DL (born 16 June 1946), is an English businessman and politician from the Astor family. He sat in the House of Lords as...
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    succeeded to the barony in 1985 at the age of 25, following the death of his grandfather Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde. He contested the Merseyside...
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  • Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket (born 12 February 1952), also known as Charlie Brocket, is a peer, business owner and television presenter...
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    David Cody Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech (born 1 July 1986), is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords. He has been serving...
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  • and Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere, a former Governor of Bermuda and MP for Blackpool South and Widnes who was created a baron by Queen Elizabeth...
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  • father was Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe (1901–1984), a Conservative Member of Parliament who served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from...
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    Mosley baronetcy and as Baron Ravensdale, a peerage created for his great-great-grandfather George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Daniel Nicholas...
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    Lords. The son of George Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, Trefgarne succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Trefgarne in 1960 at the age of 19, having attended...
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  • educationalist Sandie Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker. He was educated at the University of Keele and the University of Liverpool, and worked as a lecturer...
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