Baron Hesketh

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Baron Hesketh, of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet, of Rufford, who had previously represented Enfield in the House of Commons as a Conservative. The Baronetcy of Rufford had been created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1761 for Thomas Hesketh, with special remainder to his brother Robert, who succeeded him as 2nd Baronet. The former seat of the Barons Hesketh was Easton Neston in Northamptonshire. The house was previously the seat of the Fermor family (Earls of Pomfret since 1721), and came into the Hesketh family through the marriage in 1846 of Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet, of Rufford, to Lady Anna Maria Isabella Fermor, sister and heiress of George Richard William Fermor, 5th and last Earl of Pomfret. However, the house was sold by the current Baron in 2005.

The original seat of the Hesketh family was Rufford Old Hall in the village of Rufford in Lancashire. This house was sold to the National Trust by the first Baron Hesketh in 1936.

[edit] Baronets of Rufford (1761)

Sir Thomas Hesketh, 1st Baronet (1727–1778)
Sir Robert Hesketh, 2nd Baronet (1728–1798)
Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, 3rd Baronet (1777–1842)
Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh, 4th Baronet (1799–1843)
Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet (1825–1872)
Sir Thomas Henry Fermor-Hesketh, 6th Baronet (1847–1876)
Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet (1849–1927)
Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet (1881–1944) (created Baron Hesketh in 1935)