Baron Redesdale

Baron Redesdale, of Redesdale in the County of Northumberland, is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was firstly created in 1802 for the lawyer and politician Sir John Freeman-Mitford. His only son, the second Baron, served as Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords from 1851 to 1886. In 1877 he was created Earl of Redesdale, in the County of Northumberland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Redesdale never married and on his death in 1886 both titles became extinct. The Earl bequeathed his substantial estates to his first cousin twice removed, the diplomat, politician and writer Sir Algernon Freeman-Mitford. He was the great-grandson of the historian William Mitford, elder brother of John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale.

In 1902 the Redesdale title was revived when Freeman-Mitford was raised to the peerage as Baron Redesdale. He wrote the introduction to the first English edition of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's "Foundations of The Nineteenth Century". He was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, who is chiefly remembered as the father of the famous Mitford sisters. He was also a member of the Right Club, which was intended, in the words of its founder Archibald Maule Ramsay, "to oppose and expose the activities of Organized Jewry." As of 2006 the title is held by his great-nephew, the sixth Baron, a Liberal Democrat politician, who in 2000 was created the youngest life peer ever as Baron Mitford, of Redesdale in the County of Northumberland.

Barons Redesdale, First Creation (1802)

*John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1748-1830)
*John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1805-1886) (created Earl of Redesdale in 1877)

Earls of Redesdale (1877)

*John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale (1805-1886)

Barons Redesdale, Second Creation (1902)

*Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837-1916)
*David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878-1958)
*Bertram Thomas Carlyle Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 3rd Baron Redesdale (1880-1962)
*John Power Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 4th Baron Redesdale (1885-1963)
*Clement Napier Bertram Mitford, 5th Baron Redesdale (1932-1991)
*Rupert Bertram Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale (b. 1967)

ee also

*William Mitford
*Mitford sisters

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]

External links

* [http://www.hschamberlain.net/grundlagen/division0_index.html#INTRODUCTION Lord Redesdales introduction of the first English edition of Houston Stewart Chamberlains "Foundations of the 19th Century"]