Baron Sherborne

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The title of Baron Sherborne was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1784. It became extinct upon the death of the eighth baron in 1985.

[edit] Barons Sherborne (1784)

Arms of the Barons Sherborne.
Arms of the Barons Sherborne.
  • James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne (1744-1820)
  • John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne (1779-1862)
  • James Henry Legge Dutton, 3rd Baron Sherborne (1804-1883)
  • Edward Lenox Dutton, 4th Baron Sherborne (1831-1919)
  • Frederick George Dutton, 5th Baron Sherborne (1840-1920)
  • James Huntley Dutton, 6th Baron Sherborne (1873-1949)
  • Charles Dutton, 7th Baron Sherborne (1911-1982)
  • Ralph Stawell Dutton, 8th Baron Sherborne (1898-1985)

The ancestral seat of the Barons Sherborne was Sherborne Park in Gloucestershire. The entire estate of more than 4000 acres was bequeathed to the National Trust by the 8th and last Baron Sherborne in 1983.