Baron Birdwood, of
Anzac and of
Totnes in the County of Devon, was a
title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...
.
It was created on 25 January 1938 for
Sir William Birdwood, 1st Baronet. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of the
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the
Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. Birdwood had already been created a Baronet, of Anzac and Totnes, on 29 December 1919.
The first two barons had only one son each; on the death of the 3rd Baron without male issue in 2015, the barony and baronetcy became extinct.
The politician
Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood
Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood (18 May 1913 – 29 June 2000), born Joan Pollock Graham, was a British far-right political activist who took part in a number of movements, and was described as the "largest individual distributor of racist and ...
, was the second wife of the second Baron.
Barons Birdwood (1938)
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William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865–1951)
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Christopher Bromhead Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood (1899–1962)
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Mark William Ogilvie Birdwood, 3rd Baron Birdwood (1938–2015
[''The Times'', London, 18 July 2015, page 82])
Coat of arms
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Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1938