Baron Tollemache, of

Helmingham Hall Helmingham Hall is a moated manor house in Helmingham, Suffolk, England. It was begun by John Tollemache in 1480 and has been owned by the Tollemache family ever since. The house is built around a courtyard in typical late medieval/Tudor style. ...

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in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the

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. The

Tollemache family The Tollemache family (also historically spelt Talmach or Tallemache) is an England, English noble family, originally from Suffolk. The family's surname is pronounced . Members of the family have had a significant impact on the economy and politi ...

's surname and the title of the barony is pronounced .

History

The title was created in 1876 for John Tollemache, who had earlier represented Cheshire South and Cheshire West in the

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as a

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. He was the son of Admiral of the Fleet John Halliday (who in 1821 assumed by Royal licence the surname and arms of Tollemache in lieu of Halliday), eldest son of Lady Jane Halliday, youngest daughter of

Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart KT (1 May 1708 – 10 March 1770), styled Lord Huntingtower from 1712 to 1727, was a nobleman from East Anglia, who bore a Scottish title. Lionel's father, a namesake in 1712 predeceased his father Lionel ...

. The first Baron was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Cheshire West. On the death of his grandson, the third Baron, this line of the family failed, and the title passed to the late Baron's second cousin, the fourth Baron. He was the son of Major-General Edward Tollemache, son of the Hon. Hamilton James Tollemache, fourth son of the first Baron. , the title is held by the fourth Baron's son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 1975. He was

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from 2003 to 2014. The actor

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is distantly related to the family, through his 11-times great-grandmother, Anne Tollemache, which he discovered during an episode of BBC's '' Who Do You Think You Are?''. The family seat is

, near

Helmingham Helmingham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, 12 miles (20 km) east of Stowmarket Stowmarket ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmark ...

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Barons Tollemache (1876)

John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache (; 5 December 1805 – 9 December 1890) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament, as well as a major landowner and estate manager in Cheshire. He was raised to the peerage in 1876 as Baron T ...

(1805–1890) * Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache (1832–1904) **Honourable Lyonel Plantagenet Tollemache (1860–1902) *

Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache, DL, JP (7 March 1883 – 13 January 1955) was a British Army officer, peer and writer on croquet and bridge. Early life Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache was born in 1883, the son of Hon. Lyon ...

(1883–1955) *John Edward Hamilton Tollemache, 4th Baron Tollemache (1910–1975) * Timothy John Edward Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache (b. 1939) The

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is the present holder's eldest son, the Hon.

Edward John Hugh Tollemache Edward John Hugh Tollemache (born 12 May 1976) is a British aristocrat and banker. Early life Tollemache is the eldest son and heir apparent of Timothy Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache, and as the son of a baron can use the pre-nominal style of ...

(b. 1976)
The heir apparent’s heir apparent is his only son, Ralph Timothy Jack Tollemache (b. 2010)

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Baron Tollemache Baron Tollemache, of Helmingham Hall near Ipswich in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Tollemache family's surname and the title of the barony is pronounced . History The title was created in 1876 fo ...

Noble titles created in 1876 Noble titles created for UK MPs

History

Barons Tollemache (1876)

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