William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes GBE (17 August 1894 – 12 December 1964) was a British motor manufacturer. He opened his first car sales agency in 1913, leading to the global Rootes Group.During the Second World War he supervised the volume manufacture of aircraft and engines, as well as the supply of military motor vehicles and armoured fighting vehicles.

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, PC (/ ˈ k ɑːr ˈ b ɛr ɪ s f ər d /; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside The Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General …

Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (born 9 February 1955) is a British actor. He is known for his roles on American television, including Shane Donovan on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, and Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny, and as the voice of Dennis the Goldfish on Stanley for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award.He is also more …

Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 29 December 1951), is a British peer and politician Family. Maxwell ... Family. Maxwell Aitken is the grandson of The 1st Baron Beaverbrook and the only son of Sir Max Aitken, by his third marriage to Violet de Trafford. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke ...

The Thomson Corporation – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet; Various named after Elihu Thomson: Alstom; Thomson-CSF (now Thales Group) Thomson-Houston Electric Company (now General Electric) Thomson SA (now Technicolor SA) Thorn Electrical Industries – Jules Thorn; Thorntons (British chocolatier) – Joseph William Thornton

Lord Lovat (Scottish Gaelic: Mac Shimidh) is a title of the rank Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland.It was created in 1458 for Hugh Fraser by summoning him to the Scottish Parliament as Lord Fraser of Lovat, although the holder is referred to simply as Lord Lovat. It was a separate title from the Scottish feudal lordship of Lovat, already held by the highland Frasers.

Baron Sudeley is a title that has been created thrice in British history, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1299 when John de Sudeley was summoned to Parliament as Lord Sudeley.On the death of the third Baron in 1367 the title fell into abeyance.The abeyance was terminated in …

Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertfordshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for Sir Nathan Rothschild, 2nd Baronet, a member of the Rothschild banking family. He was the first Jewish member of the House of Lords not to have previously converted to Christianity. The current holder of the title is Jacob Rothschild, 4th …

William Henry Ellis: 1 January 1918 Master Cutler of Sheffield. "For services in connection with the War". Sir Richard Charles Garton: 1 January 1918 ... 1955: 3rd Viscount Esher, Geoffrey Oliver, 1st Baron Rootes, John Troutbeck; 1956: 9th Earl De La Warr, Miles Dempsey, ...

Henry Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold (born 12 May 1962) is a British screenwriter. He is the current occupant of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.. He is the son of David Antony Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold, and succeeded his father in the Barony of Cobbold in May 2022. He is married to Martha Boone, with two children, …