Baron Rennell, of Rodd in the
County of Hereford, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1933 for the diplomat
Sir Rennell Rodd, previously
British Ambassador to Italy. His second but eldest surviving son, the second baron, served as president of the
Royal Geographical Society from 1945 to 1948. He had no male issue and was succeeded by his nephew, the third baron. He was the only surviving son of Commander the Hon. Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, youngest son of the first baron.
The third baron was a Scottish international
rugby
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player. the title is held by his son, the fourth baron, who succeeded in 2006.
The first baron was the grandson of
Sir John Tremayne Rodd, a
vice-admiral in the
Royal Navy
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, and a great-grandson of the geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography,
James Rennell
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. The
Conservative
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politician and life peer the
Baroness Emmet of Amberley was the eldest daughter of the first baron.
Peter Rodd, husband of the writer
Nancy Mitford
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, was the third son of the first baron.
Barons Rennell (1933)
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(James) Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell (1858–1941)
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Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell (1895–1978)
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John Adrian Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell (1935–2006)
*James Roderick David Tremayne Rodd, 4th Baron Rennell (born 1978)
There is no heir to the barony.
Arms
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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Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1933
Noble titles created for UK MPs