Baron Bethell

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Sir John Henry Bethell, 1st Baron Bethell

Baron Bethell, of Romford in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in the 1922 Dissolution Honours for the banker and Liberal politician Sir John Henry Bethell, 1st Baronet, who had represented the constituencies of Romford and East Ham North in the House of Commons.<ref name="LG1922">Template:London Gazette</ref><ref name="Times1922">Template:Cite news</ref> He had previously been created a baronet, of Romford in the County of Essex, on 26 June 1911.<ref name="burke"/>

History

The title descended in the male line from father to son until the early death of the 3rd Baron in 1967. At that point it passed to his first cousin, Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell, the son of William Gladstone Bethell (third son of the 1st Baron). The 4th Baron was a noted historian and Conservative politician.

Upon the death of the 4th Baron in 2007, the title passed to his eldest son, James Nicholas Bethell, 5th Baron Bethell. In 2018 the 5th Baron was elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords.<ref name="Telegraph2007">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="HoL2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Barons Bethell (1922)

• **John Henry Bethell, 1st Baron Bethell** (1861 – 1945)
• **John Raymond Bethell, 2nd Baron Bethell** (1902 – 1965)
• **Guy Anthony John Bethell, 3rd Baron Bethell** (1928 – 1967)
• **Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell** (1938 – 2007)
• **James Nicholas Bethell, 5th Baron Bethell** (b. 1967)

The heir apparent is the present holder’s son, Jacob Nicholas Douglas Bethell (b. 2006).

Arms

<poem> Or, on a chevron azure an estoile of the first; in chief two boar’s heads couped of the second. </poem>