Baron Westwood, of Gosforth in the County of Northumberland, 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 1944 for the trade unionist
William Westwood. He was General Secretary of the
Ship Constructors' and Shipwrights' Association
The Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association (SSA) was a trade union representing shipbuilders in the United Kingdom.
History
The union was founded in 1882 as the Associated Society of Shipwrights, by eleven local unions in Scotland and No ...
(now part of
GMB Union
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 460,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National Health Service (N ...
) from 1929 to 1945. the title is held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in that year.
Barons Westwood (1944)
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William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood
William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood OBE (28 August 1880 – 13 September 1953), was a British trade unionist and Labour politician.
Westwood was the son of William Westwood of Dundee, Scotland. He was national supervisor of the Ship Constructor ...
(1880–1953)
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William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood
William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood (25 December 1907 – 8 November 1991) was a British peer, director of Hornby Railways and former chairman of Newcastle United.
Biography
Westwood inherited his father's title and estate, on his father's dea ...
(1907–1991)
*William Gavin Westwood, 3rd Baron Westwood (1944–2019)
*(William) Fergus Westwood, 4th Baron Westwood (b. 1972)
The
heir presumptive
An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question.
...
is the present holder's younger brother Hon. Alistair Cameron Westwood (b. 1974).
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 1944