Baron Dimsdale is a title which was conferred on the physician

Thomas Dimsdale Baron Thomas Dimsdale (29 May 1712 – 30 December 1800) was an English doctor, banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1790. He was created Baron Dimsdale of the Russian Empire by Catherine the Great. Early life He ...

of Hertfordshire by the Russian Royal Family. Dimsdale, who had a high reputation in the new field of smallpox inoculation and had written a book on the subject, was invited in 1762 by

Catherine the Great , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anhal ...

to travel to Russia and inoculate herself and her son, Grand-Duke Paul. Accordingly, Dimsdale and his second son Nathaniel travelled to Russia in 1768 and carried out the procedure to the great satisfaction of the Empress, who rewarded both him and his son with annuities and a Barony of the Russian Empire, with the right for it to be inherited by the eldest lawful descendants. Nathaniel died with no male heir. The Barony awarded to his father, however, descended via his eldest son John (1747–1820) for several generations. On John's death it passed to his brother Robert (1756–1825) and thence to the latter's eldest son, Thomas Robert (1796–1865), who was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1831. He was succeeded by his brother, Charles John (1801–1872), High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1843, and he in turn by his son

Robert The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

(1828–1898), banker and MP for

Hertford Hertford ( ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census. The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, ne ...

. Charles Robert Southwell (1856–1928) was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1917. His two eldest sons were killed in the First World War and so the Barony was inherited by Thomas Edward (1911–1985), High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1974. The recent Baron, Robert Edward was High Sheriff of the county in 1996. The title could be officially used in the United Kingdom from 1813. The family seat was Essendon Place, Essendon, Hertfordshire.

Barons Dimsdale (c.1769)

(1712–1800) and

Nathaniel Dimsdale Nathaniel Dimsdale, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (11 April 1748 – 3 July 1811), a British physician and MP who received a Barony of the Russian Empire for his work in Russia on smallpox vaccination. He was the second son of the Quaker Thom ...

(1748–1811) * John Dimsdale (1747-1820) * Robert Dimsdale (1756–1825) * Thomas Robert Dimsdale (1796–1865) * Charles John Dimsdale (1801–1872) *

Robert Dimsdale Robert Dimsdale (1 July 1828 – 2 May 1898) was an English banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1866 and 1892. Dimsdale was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, the son of Charles John Dimsdale ...

(1828–1898) * Charles Robert Southwell Dimsdale (1856–1928) * Thomas Edward Dimsdale (1911–1985) * Robert Edward Dimsdale (1938–2019) * Edward Dimsdale (1965- )

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