Baron Faringdon, of Buscot Park

Buscot Park

Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend. It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian...

 in the County of Berkshire

Berkshire

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1916 for Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet

Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon

Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, CH , known as Sír Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, from 1902 to 1916, was a British financier and Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament.- Biography :...

, who had previously represented Stafford West and St George's, Hanover Square

Westminster St George's (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 as a Liberal Unionist. He had already been created a Baronet in 1902. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He was the son of the Hon. Harold Henderson

Harold Henderson

Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson CVO , was a British Conservative politician.Born in Brentford, Henderson was the eldest son of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon of Buscot Park in Berkshire , and his wife Jane Ellen...

, eldest son of the first Baron, who predeceased his father. Lord Faringdon was a member of the London County Council

London County Council

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. the titles are held by his nephew, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1977. He is the son of the Hon. Michael Thomas Handerson, second son of the Hon. Harold Henderson.

The family seat is Buscot Park

Buscot Park

Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend. It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian...

, near Faringdon

Faringdon

Faringdon is a market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. It is on the edge of the Thames Valley, between the River Thames and the Ridgeway...

 in Oxfordshire.

Barons Faringdon (1916)

• Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon
  Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon
  Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, CH , known as Sír Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, from 1902 to 1916, was a British financier and Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament.- Biography :...
  
   (1850–1934)
  • Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson
    Harold Henderson
    Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson CVO , was a British Conservative politician.Born in Brentford, Henderson was the eldest son of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon of Buscot Park in Berkshire , and his wife Jane Ellen...
    
     (1875–1922)
• Alexander Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (1902–1977)
• Charles Michael Henderson, 3rd Baron Faringdon (b. 1937)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. James Harold Henderson (b. 1961)