Baron Chorley, of Kendal in the County of Westmorland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1945 for the a barrister, academic and Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician, Robert Chorley

Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley

Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley QC , was a British legal scholar, public servant and Labour politician....

. He was Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of Commercial and Industrial Law at the University of London

University of London

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 from 1930 to 1946 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords

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) from 1946 to 1950 in the Labour administration

Labour Government 1945-1951

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 of Clement Attlee

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. the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1978. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act

House of Lords Act 1999

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 of 1999. Lord Chorley sits as a cross-bencher.

Barons Chorley (1945)

• Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley
  Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley
  Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley QC , was a British legal scholar, public servant and Labour politician....
  
   (1895–1978)
• Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley
  Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley
  Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley is a British chartered accountant and peer.The son of the 1st Baron Chorley was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in natural sciences and economics in 1953...
  
   (b. 1930)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Nicholas Rupert Debenham Chorley (b. 1966)