Baron Windlesham

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Baron Windlesham, of Windlesham in Surrey,<ref name=Gazette34375>Template:London Gazette</ref> is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the Conservative politician Sir George Hennessy, 1st Baronet.<ref name=Gazette34375/> He had already been created a Baronet, of Winchester in the County of Southampton, in 1927.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> His eldest son, the second Baron, was a Brigadier in the Grenadier Guards. The latter's son, the third Baron, succeeded in 1962; a Conservative politician, he notably served as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords in 1974. In 1999 he was created a life peer as Baron Hennessy, of Windlesham in the County of Surrey, so that he could continue to sit in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to a seat in the upper chamber of parliament.<ref name=DJGH>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> Template:As of the titles are held by his son, the fourth Baron.

Barons Windlesham (1937)Edit

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. George Rupert James Hennessy (b. 2006)<ref name=JRH/>