Baron Killearn, of Killearn in the County of Stirling, 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 1943 for the diplomat
Sir Miles Lampson. He was the second son of Norman Lampson, youngest son of
Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet, of Rowfant (see below). Lord Killearn's eldest son, the second Baron, succeeded his second cousin once removed as fourth Baronet in 1971. On his death the titles passed to his half-brother, the third and () present holder of the barony and baronetcy.
The Lampson Baronetcy, of Rowfant in the County of Sussex, was created in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain.
Baronetage of England (1611–1705)
James I of E ...
in 1866 for the Anglo-American businessman
Curtis Lampson
Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, 1st Baronet (21 September 1806 – 12 March 1885) was an Anglo-American fur merchant, best remembered for his promotion of the transatlantic telegraph cable.
Life
Born New Haven, Vermont, to American Revolutionar ...
. His grandson, the third Baronet, was an author, journalist and explorer, notably in Central and West Africa. On his death in 1971 the title was inherited by his second cousin once removed, the aforementioned third Baron Killearn (see above).
The family seat is Little Sodbury Manor, near
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sodbury, in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. It was founded in the 12th century by William ...
,
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England. Towns in the area include Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Thornbury, Filton, Patchway and Bradley Stoke, the latter three forming part ...
.
Barons Killearn (1943)
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Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn (1880–1964)
*Graham Curtis Lampson, 2nd Baron Killearn (1919–1996)
*Victor Miles George Aldous Lampson, 3rd Baron Killearn (b. 1941)
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 eldest son, Hon. Miles Henry Morgan Lampson (b. 1977)
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son, Alfred Victor Christopher Lampson (b. 2009)
Lampson baronets, of Rowfant (1866)
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Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, 1st Baronet (1806–1885)
*Sir George Curtis Lampson, 2nd Baronet (1833–1899)
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Sir Curtis George Lampson, 3rd Baronet (1890–1971)
*Sir Graham Curtis Lampson, 4th Baronet (1919–1996) (had already succeeded as Baron Killearn in 1964)
''see above for further succession''
Arms
See also
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Jacquetta Eliot, Countess of St Germans
Jacquetta Jean Frederica Eliot, Countess of St. Germans (born 1943) is the third daughter of Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn. She is his first daughter by his second marriage, to Jacqueline Aldine Leslie (née Castellani), daughter ...
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Frederick Locker-Lampson
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters, bibliophile and poet.
Overview
He was born at Greenwich Hospital. His father, who was Civil Commissioner of the Hospital, was Edward Hawke Locker, youngest son of the Captai ...
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Haremere Hall
Haremere Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean building near Etchingham, East Sussex.
Location
The hall is approximately in size and sited in an grounds. It is around 12 miles north of Hastings and the grounds overlook the River Rother.
History ...
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1943