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    Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), (born George Miles Watson), of Compton Verney, Warwickshire and Plumpton Place, East Sussex, was an English...
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    of the Jockey Club (1982-5). He was the only son and heir of Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton of Compton Verney, Warwickshire and later of Plumpton Place...
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    Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (1873–1922) (George) Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968) (Joseph) Rupert Eric Robert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton (1924–2003)...
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    Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (10 February 1873 – 13 March 1922) was an English industrialist from Leeds, Yorkshire. He was chairman of Joseph Watson & Sons...
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  • Baron Manton (1873-1922), industrialist and philanthropist George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899-1968), racehorse breeder Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton...
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    and pasture. Plumpton Place was formerly the home of George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), who maintained a race-horse stud there. In 1927...
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    Brownlow married thirdly Leila Joan, Lady Manton (d.1983), widow of George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (d.1968) and daughter of Major Philip Guy Reynolds...
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  • 1977, Lord Hesketh married Hon. Claire Georgina Watson, a daughter of Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton and the former Mary Elizabeth Hallinan. Together...
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    Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton (1924–2003), only son of her younger sister Alethea Alys Mary Pauline Langdale, wife of (George) Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton...
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  • member of the London Wasps rugby union team and England centre Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), racehorse breeder Reginald Courtenay Welch (1851–1939)...
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    the Warwickshire Foxhounds at nearby Upper Quinton. George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton sold the property to Samuel Lamb. It was requisitioned by the...
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  • the Guinness family, he is the elder of the two sons of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley). Until his...
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    heir Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton, resided for a while at Compton Verney, which he sold in 1929, whilst Joseph's widow Claire, Baroness Manton, lived...
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  • Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild (born 12 July 1971), is a British-born financier who settled in Switzerland and is a member...
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    Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born 5 February 1948), known professionally as Christopher Guest, is a British-American actor, comedian...
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  • was born on June 12, 1957, in Toronto, Ontario, the eldest child of the 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his wife, Marilyn Lavis. He has a sister named Taylor...
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  • old. Aged fifteen, he became the 3rd Baron Brocket on the death of his grandfather, Arthur Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket, also inheriting Brocket Hall...
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    Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, CH, PC (born 22 February 1960), known informally as Tom Strathclyde, is a British...
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    1922 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Manton. Later the estate was acquired by the Sangster family. Manton in the Domesday Book "Victoria County...
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  • validity of Lady Simon's title, as she is not the eldest child of the 2nd Baron Simon of Wythenshawe and therefore, as she is also a woman, the title...
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    Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born 9 February 1955) is a British actor. His roles on American television include Shane Donovan...
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    Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton (born 27 October 1958), is a British peer and Labour Party...
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    born 16 June 1946. He is the eldest of the five children of Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever, and Lady Irene Haig. Astor succeeded to the peerage after...
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    Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1926–2015), and his first wife, Belinda, Lady Montagu, née Crossley (1932–2022). Montagu is the grandson of the 2nd Baron Montagu...
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    Charles James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne, KCVO, KStJ, FRSA, FSA (born 12 September 1939), was Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire from 1999 until 2014...
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  • among barons is: Barons of England Lords of Parliament of Scotland Barons of Great Britain Barons of Ireland Barons of the United Kingdom However barons of...
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    John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont, FRSL, DL (born 21 April 1948), generally known as Max Egremont, is a British...
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  • about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. He is also the 5th Baron Carnock, but does not use the title. He is noted for his books Sea Room...
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    William Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood, DL, FSA (born 31 July 1951), usually called Richard Inglewood, is a former Conservative Party politician...
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  • Charles Evelyn Baring, 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 30 December 1937), is a hereditary peer and a member of the Baring family. He is the son of...
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