Baron Newlands, of Newlands and Barrofield in the County of the City of Glasgow and of Mauldslie Castle in the County of Lanark, was a title in the

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. It was created on 19 January 1898 for the soldier Sir William Hozier, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet in the

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in 1890. He was succeeded by his only son James, the second Baron, who had represented Lanarkshire South in the

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and served as

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. He was childless, and the titles became extinct on his death on 5 September 1929. Sir

Henry Montague Hozier Sir Henry Montague Hozier (20 March 1838 – 28 February 1907) was a British Army officer who became secretary of Lloyd's of London. Biography The third son of James C. Hozier of Newlands and Mauldslie Castle, Lanarkshire, Hozier was educated a ...

(1838–1907), younger brother of the first Baron, was a

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in the

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and the father of

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, wife of

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Barons Newlands (1898)

* William Wallace Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands (1825–1906) * James Henry Cecil Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands (1851–1929)

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Newlands Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1898