Baron Shuttleworth

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Baron Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1902 for the Liberal politician Sir Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet, of Gawthorpe. The Baronetcy, of Gawthorpe in the County Palatine of Lancaster, had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1849 for his father, the physician, social reformer and educationalist James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth.

Both sons of the first Baron were killed in the First World War and he was therefore succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. However, both he and his brother, the third Baron, were killed in action during the Second World War. On the death of the third Baron in 1942 the titles passed to his first cousin, the fourth Baron (eldest son of the second son of the first Baron), who survived the Second World War although he was badly wounded. His son, the fifth Baron, serves as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire since 1997.

The family seat was Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire.