Baron Alvingham, of Woodfold in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 10 July 1929 for Robert Yerburgh

Robert Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham

Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham was a British Conservative politician.Alvingham was the son of Robert Armstrong Yerburgh and Elma Amy Thwaites, and was educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford...

. He had previously represented Dorset South in the House of Commons

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 as a Conservative

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. His father, Robert Yerburgh

Robert Yerburgh

Robert Armstrong Yerburgh DL JP , was a British Conservative Party politician.Robert was the son of Reverend Richard Yerburgh and Susan Higgin, and was educated at Rossall School, Harrow School and then University College, Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons for Chester in 1886, a seat...

, had earlier represented Chester in Parliament. In 1916 Royal approval was given to a peerage to whom he had been signified, but he died before the patent was issued. the title is held by the first Baron's son, the second Baron, who succeeded his father in 1955. He is a retired Major-General in the Coldstream Guards

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Coat of arms

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Per pale argent and azure, on a chevron between three chaplets of roses counterchanged.

Barons Alvingham (1929)

• Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham
  Robert Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham
  Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham was a British Conservative politician.Alvingham was the son of Robert Armstrong Yerburgh and Elma Amy Thwaites, and was educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford...
  
   (1889–1955)
• Robert Guy Eardley Yerburgh, 2nd Baron Alvingham (b. 1926)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Robert Richard Guy Yerburgh (b. 1956)

The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Robert William Guy Yerburgh (b. 1983)