Baron Haldon, of Haldon, in the County of Devon, was a title created 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 ...

on 29 May 1880, for Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet and became extinct upon the death of the fifth baron in 1939.

Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782)

Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (December 1717 – 29 April 1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, in Devon, England, was an officer of the British East India Company who served as Governor of the Madras Presidency. In England he served as ...

(1717–1798) *

Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(–1813) * Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk, 3rd Baronet (1793–1860) * Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet (1818–1883) (created Baron Haldon in 1880)

Barons Haldon (1880–1939)

Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon (5 January 1818 – 23 March 1883), known as Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet from 1860 to 1880, was a British Conservative Party politician. Biography Born in London, he was the son of Sir Lawrence Palk, 3rd Bar ...

(1818–1883) * Lawrence Hesketh Palk, 2nd Baron Haldon (1846–1903) * Lawrence William Palk, 3rd Baron Haldon (1869–1933) * Lawrence Edward Broomfield Palk, 4th Baron Haldon (1896–1938) * Edward Arthur Palk, 5th Baron Haldon (1854–1939)

Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782), continued

* Sir Wilmot Lawrence Launcelot Palk, 9th Baronet (1876–1945)

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