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Debrett's People of Today was a reference work published by Debrett's containing biographical details of approximately 25,000 notable people from across the spectrum of British society, a rival to the longer-established Who's Who. Those included were chosen on significance and merit.
Debrett's Wedding Guide (first published in 2007) was revised in 2017 and published as Debrett's Wedding Handbook. Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage, a book which includes a short history of the family of each titleholder, [6] was previously published roughly every five years. The last printed edition was the 2019 and 150th edition, published in ...
Baron Gretton, of Stapleford in the County of Leicester, [1] is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1944 for the brewer and Conservative politician John Gretton . He was head of the brewery firm of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd of Burton upon Trent and also represented Derbyshire South , Rutland and Burton in Parliament.
The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1643 in favour of Sir Charles Smyth, who became Baron Carrington of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire. Only a few days later he was created Viscount Carrington in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his two sons, but in 1706 the titles became extinct.
The Baronetage was created on 14 June 1875 for the Conservative politician Walter Barttelot. [3] The family surname is pronounced "Bartlot". The Barttelot family claims to be the oldest gentry family in Sussex [4] and has been seated at the manor of Stopham since 1379, which they inherited on marriage to the heiress of the de Stopham family, where they had a residence at "La Ford", [5 ...
Baron Denham, of Weston Underwood in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for Sir George Bowyer, 1st Baronet, a Conservative politician who had earlier represented Buckingham in the House of Commons. He had already been created a baronet, of Weston Underwood, in 1933. Bowyer was a ...
Upon his death on 14 May 2011, [4] he was succeeded by his son, now the eighth Earl, who inherited Clandon Park, the 1000-acre agricultural Parkland Estate in Surrey in January 2017. Another member of the Onslow family was the Conservative politician Cranley Onslow. He was a descendant of George Onslow, eldest son of Lieutenant-General Richard ...
Richard Hugh Cavendish was born as the second child and first son of Richard Edward Osborne Cavendish (1917–1972) and his wife, Pamela Thomas (b. 1918), daughter of Hugh Lloyd Thomas (1888–1938) and Hon. Gwendoline Ada Bellew (1891–1976), a great-granddaughter of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew.