Baron Colebrooke, of Stebunheath in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1906 for Sir Edward Colebrooke, 5th Baronet

Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke

Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke PC, GCVO , known as Sir Edward Colebrooke, 5th Baronet, from 1890 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician and courtier....

. He held several positions at the British court. The Colebrooke family descended from the London

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 banker James Colebrooke. His second son James Colebrooke

Sir James Colebrooke, 1st Baronet

Sir James Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baronet was the son of James Colebrooke, of Chilham Castle, Kent, a very prominent private banker in London, and his wife Mary Hudson...

 represented Gatton

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 in the House of Commons

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. On 12 October 1759 he was created a Baronet, of Gatton in the County of Surrey, in the Baronetage of Great Britain, with remainder to his younger brother George. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his younger brother George, the second Baronet. He was Member of Parliament

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 for Arundel

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 and also served as Chairman of the Honourable East India Company.

On Colebrooke's death the title passed to his second but eldest surviving son, the third Baronet. He died childless and was succeeded by his nephew, the fourth Baronet. He was the son of Henry Colebrooke, an administrator in India

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 and Sanskrit

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 scholar, third son of the second Baronet. Colebrooke represented Taunton

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, Lanarkshire

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 and North Lanarkshire

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 in Parliament. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the fifth Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1906. Lord Colebrooke had no surviving male issue and on his death in 1939 both the baronetcy and barony became extinct.

Robert Colebrooke, elder brother of the first and second Baronets, sat as Member of Parliament for Maldon

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Colebrooke Baronets, of Gatton (1759)

• Sir James Colebrooke, 1st Baronet
  Sir James Colebrooke, 1st Baronet
  Sir James Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baronet was the son of James Colebrooke, of Chilham Castle, Kent, a very prominent private banker in London, and his wife Mary Hudson...
  
   (1722–1761)
• Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet
  Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet
  Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet , of Gatton in Surrey, was an English merchant banker, chairman of the East India Company and Member of Parliament, who bankrupted himself through unwise speculations....
  
   (1729–1809)
• Sir James Edward Colebrooke, 3rd Baronet (1761–1838)
• Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet
  Sir Thomas Colebrooke, 4th Baronet
  Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet was a British politician.He was the son of Henry Thomas Colebrooke and Elizabeth Colebrooke...
  
   (1813–1890)
• Sir Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 5th Baronet
  Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
  Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke PC, GCVO , known as Sir Edward Colebrooke, 5th Baronet, from 1890 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician and courtier....
  
   (1861–1939) (created Baron Colebrooke in 1906)

Barons Colebrooke (1906)

• Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
  Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
  Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke PC, GCVO , known as Sir Edward Colebrooke, 5th Baronet, from 1890 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician and courtier....
  
  (1861–1939)