Baron Hacking, of
Chorley
Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came pr ...
in the County Palatine of Lancaster, 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 1945 for the
Conservative politician
Sir Douglas Hacking, 1st Baronet. He was
Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1936 to 1942. Hacking had already been created a
baronet
A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...
in 1938. the titles are held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1971.
Barons Hacking (1945)
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Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (1884–1950)
*Douglas Eric Hacking, 2nd Baron Hacking (1910–1971)
*
Douglas David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (b. 1938)
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, Hon. Douglas Francis Hacking (b. 1968).
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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External links
Lord David Hacking the 3rd Baron Hacking's personal site
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Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Barons Hacking
Noble titles created in 1945
Noble titles created for UK MPs