Baron Cottesloe
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. It was created in 1874 for the Conservative
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politician and former Chief Secretary for Ireland
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, Sir Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baronet
Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe PC, PC , JP , known as Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt, between 1821 and 1874, was a British Tory politician.-Early life:...
. He was the son of Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle. Lord Cottesloe had already been created a Baronet, of Swanbourne in the County of Berkshire, in 1821, chiefly in recognition of his father's services, and with remainder to the latter's heirs. Moreover, Thomas Fremantle was created a Baron of the Austrian Empire in 1816, a title which was inherited by his son who was given Royal license to use it in Britain in 1822. Lord Cottesloe was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He represented Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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in the House of Commons
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as a Conservative. His son, the third Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
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. the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1994. Lord Cottesloe served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire between 1984 and 1997.
Several other members of the Fremantle family have also gained distinction. William Henry Fremantle
William Henry Fremantle
Sir William Henry Fremantle GCH, PC was a British courtier and politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household from 1826 to 1837.-Background:...
, uncle of the first Baron, was a politician. John Fremantle, son of Colonel Stephen Fremantle, uncle of the first Baron, was a Major-General in the Army. He was the father of 1) General Sir Arthur Fremantle
Arthur Fremantle
General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, GCMG, CB was a British soldier, a member of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards, and a notable British witness to the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War...
and of 2) FitzRoy William Fremantle, a Major-General in the Coldstream Guards
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. Sir Charles Fremantle
Charles Fremantle
Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB RN was a British Royal Navy officer. The city of Fremantle in Western Australia is named after him.-Early life:...
, brother of the first Baron, was a naval commander. The town of Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle, Western Australia
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, is named after him. The Very Reverend the Hon. William Robert Fremantle, brother of the first Baron, was Dean of Ripon. The Very Reverend the Hon. William Henry Fremantle
William Henry Fremantle (Dean)
The Very Reverend William Henry Fremantle was an eminent Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th....
, second son of the first Baron, was Dean of Ripon and Canon of Canterbury. His second son Sir Francis Edward Fremantle
Francis Edward Fremantle
Lieutenant-colonel Sir Francis Edward Fremantle, OBE, DL, FRCS, FRCP was a British physician and Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans from 1919 until his death....
was a Conservative politician. The Hon. Sir Charles Fremantle (1834-1915), third son of the first Baron, was an administrator with the Suez Canal Company
Suez Canal Company
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. The Hon. Sir Edmund Fremantle
Edmund Fremantle
Admiral Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle GCB CMG was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.-Naval career:...
, fourth son of the first Baron, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. He was the father of 1) Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle
Sydney Fremantle
Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle GCB, MVO was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served during the Victorian era and had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by the outbreak of the First World War...
and 2) Sir Selwyn Fremantle
Selwyn Fremantle
Sir Selwyn Howe Fremantle CSI CIE was a British administrator in India.Fremantle was the son of Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, fourth son of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1890...
, an administrator in India
India
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Barons Cottesloe (1874)
- Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron CottesloeThomas Fremantle, 1st Baron CottesloeThomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe PC, PC , JP , known as Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt, between 1821 and 1874, was a British Tory politician.-Early life:...
(1798–1890) - Thomas Francis Fremantle, 2nd Baron CottesloeThomas Fremantle, 2nd Baron CottesloeThomas Francis Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe , was a British businessman and Conservative politician.Cottesloe was the eldest son of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, and the grandson of Vice-Admiral Thomas Fremantle and Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle, the diarist. His mother was Louisa Elizabeth,...
(1830–1918) - Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron CottesloeThomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron CottesloeThomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, 4th Baron Fremantle was a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an Austrian nobleman...
(1862–1956) - John Walgrave Halford Fremantle, 4th Baron CottesloeJohn Fremantle, 4th Baron CottesloeJohn Walgrave Halford Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe, 5th Baron Fremantle, GBE, TD was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the South Bank Theatre Board....
(1900–1994) - John Tapling Fremantle, 5th Baron CottesloeJohn Fremantle, 5th Baron CottesloeCommander John Tapling Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe, 6th Baron Fremantle, DL JP RN is a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an Austrian nobleman....
(b. 1927)