Baron Faringdon, of

Buscot Park Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward ...

in the County of

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, 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 1916 for Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, who had previously represented Stafford West and

St George's, Hanover Square St George's, Hanover Square, is an Anglican church, the parish church of Mayfair in the City of Westminster, central London, built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London (the Queen Anne C ...

in the House of Commons as a Liberal Unionist. He had already been created a baronet in 1902. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He was the son of the Hon.

Harold Henderson Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson, CVO (29 October 1875 – 1 November 1922), was a British Conservative politician. Early life Born in Brentford, Henderson was the eldest son of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon ...

, eldest son of the first Baron, who predeceased his father. Lord Faringdon was a member of the London County Council. the titles are held by his nephew, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1977. He is the son of the Hon. Michael Thomas Handerson, second son of the Hon. Harold Henderson. The family seat is

, near Faringdon,

Barons Faringdon (1916)

* Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon (1850–1934) ** Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson (1875–1922) *

Alexander Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (Alexander) Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (20 March 1902 – 29 January 1977) was a British Labour politician and pacifist. He is most known for his charity work, his heavy financial support of medical aid programmes, and for housing 40 c ...

(1902–1977) *

Charles Michael Henderson, 3rd Baron Faringdon Charles Michael Henderson, 3rd Baron Faringdon, KCVO (born 1937) is a British peer, stockbroker and courtier. Henderson was born in 1937, the son of Oonagh Brassey (whose grandparents included the 5th Earl of Donoughmore) and Lt-Col. Hon. Micha ...

(b. 1937) The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. James Harold Henderson (b. 1961).
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son, George Alexander Henderson (b. 1992).

Arms

References

* *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *

External links

"Owners of the Buscot Park Estate," Buscot Park and the Faringdon Collection, The National Trust
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