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Baron Skelmersdale

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Baron Skelmersdale, of Skelmersdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham. His grandson, the second Baron (the son of the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham), was a Conservative politician and served in the Conservative administrations of Disraeli and Lord Salisbury. In 1880 he was created Earl of Lathom, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] However, the earldom became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Earl, in 1930. The barony passed to the last Earl's second cousin once removed, the fifth Baron, who was the grandson of a younger son of the first Baron. On his death, the title was inherited by his cousin, the sixth Baron.

His son, the seventh Baron, served in junior ministerial positions in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and was as one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers allowed to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999. As of 2018, the title is held by his son, the eighth Baron, who succeeded him in that year.

Baron Skelmersdale (1828)

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Earl of Lathom (1880)

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Baron Skelmersdale (1828; reverted)

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The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. Daniel Peter Bootle-Wilbraham (b. 2007).

Male-line family tree

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Male-line family tree, Barons Skelmersdale and Earls of Lathom.
Baron Skelmersdale
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
1st Baron Skelmersdale

1771–1853
Hon.
Richard Bootle-Wilbraham
1801–1844
Col. Hon.
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
1807–1882
Earl of Lathom
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
1st Earl of Lathom

2nd Baron Skelmersdale
1837–1898
Col.
Arthur Bootle-Wilbraham
1842–1897
Major
Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham
1853–1914
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
2nd Earl of Lathom

3rd Baron Skelmersdale
1864–1910
Hon.
Villiers Bootle-Wilbraham
1867–1913
Hon.
Randle Bootle-Wilbraham
1868–1889
Hon.
Reginald Bootle-Wilbraham
1875–1912
Arthur Bootle-Wilbraham
5th Baron Skelmersdale

1876–1969
Dr.
Evelyn Bootle-Wilbraham
1877–1955
Major
Claude Bootle-Wilbraham
1877–1955
Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham
6th Baron Skelmersdale

1896–1973
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
3rd Earl of Lathom

4th Baron Skelmersdale
1895–1930
Roger Bootle-Wilbraham
7th Baron Skelmersdale

1945–2018
Earldom extinct
Andrew Bootle-Wilbraham
8th Baron Skelmersdale

born 1977
Hon.
Daniel Bootle-Wilbraham
born 2007

References

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  1. ^ "No. 18433". The London Gazette. 18 January 1828. p. 122.
  2. ^ "No. 24840". The London Gazette. 30 April 1880. pp. 2785–2786.

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