Baron Masham
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Baron Masham is a title that has been created three times, once in the
It was created for a second time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1891, when the industrialist Samuel Lister was made Baron Masham, of Swinton in the County of York. This creation became extinct upon the death of the third Baron in 1924.
It was created for at third time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1955 when the Conservative politician Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton, was made Baron Masham, of Ellington in the County of York. He was created Earl of Swinton at the same time. Born Philip Lloyd Grame, he was the husband of Mary Constance Cunliffe-Lister, granddaughter of the first Baron of the 1891 creation, and had assumed the surname of Cunliffe-Lister in 1924 when his wife succeeded to the substantial Masham estates. Susan Cunliffe-Lister, wife of the second Earl of Swinton, was created a life peer as Baroness Masham of Ilton in her own right in 1970.
Note: there is an older, separate title Baron Scrope of Masham that belongs to the Scrope family. It is in abeyance since 1517.
Baron Masham, first creation
Masham baronets, of High Lever (1621)
- Sir William Masham, 1st Baronet (c. 1592 – c. 1656)
- William Masham
- Sir William Masham, 2nd Baronet (d. c. 1663)
- Sir Francis Masham, 3rd Baronet (c. 1646 – 1723)
- Sir Samuel Masham, 4th Baronet (c. 1679 – 1758) (created Baron Masham in 1712)
Baron Masham (1712)
- Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham (c. 1679 – 1758)
- Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (c. 1670 – 1734), his wife and favourite of Queen Anne
- Samuel Masham, 2nd Baron Masham (1712–1776)
Title succession chart
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Baron Masham, second and third creations
Second creation (1891)
- Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham (1815–1906)
- Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (1857–1917)
- John Cunliffe Lister, 3rd Baron Masham (1867–1924)
Third creation (1955)
- see Earl of Swinton
Title succession chart
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References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]