Baron Colwyn, of
Colwyn Bay in the
County of Denbigh
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, is 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 in 1917 for the businessman
Sir Frederick Smith, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet in 1912. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1966.
The third Lord Colwyn remained in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2022 as one of
ninety elected hereditary peers after the passing of the
House of Lords Act 1999 and sat on the
Conservative benches.
Barons Colwyn (1917)
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Frederick Henry Smith, 1st Baron Colwyn (1859–1946)
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Frederick John Vivian Smith, 2nd Baron Colwyn (1914–1966)
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Ian Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn (b. 1942)
The
heir apparent
An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...
is the present holder's son the Hon. Craig Peter Hamilton-Smith (b. 1968)
The heir apparent's heir is his son Joshua Dougal Callum Hamilton-Smith (b. 2006)
References
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Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1917