Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative

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 politician John Moore-Brabazon

John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician...

. Moore-Brabazon was a descendant through a female line of Edward Brabazon, 7th Earl of Meath. His father Major John Arthur Henry Moore had assumed the additional surname of Brabazon in 1866 by Royal license. the title is held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1974. He is also a Conservative politician and one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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Barons Brabazon of Tara (1942)

• John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
  John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician...
  
   (1884–1964)
• Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Derek Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara CBE succeeded the title Baron Brabazon of Tara in 1964 with the death of his father, John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, carrying it for just ten years until his death in 1974.He was educated at Harrow School and...
  
   (1910–1974)
• Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara
  Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, DL is a British Conservative politician.Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School and married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter...
  
   (b. 1946)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. Benjamin Moore-Brabazon (b. 1983)