Baron Freyberg, of Wellington

Wellington

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 in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 and of Munstead in the County of Surrey

Surrey

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1951 for the prominent military commander Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg

Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg

Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO & Three Bars , was a British-born New Zealand Victoria Cross recipient and soldier who later served as the seventh Governor-General of New Zealand.A veteran of the Mexican Revolution, he became an officer in the...

. He served as Governor-General of New Zealand

Governor-General of New Zealand

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 from 1946 to 1952. His only son, the second Baron, was a Colonel

Colonel

Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

 in the Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

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. the title is held by the latter's only son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1993. Lord Freyberg is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits as a cross-bencher.

Barons Freyberg (1951)

• Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
  Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
  Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO & Three Bars , was a British-born New Zealand Victoria Cross recipient and soldier who later served as the seventh Governor-General of New Zealand.A veteran of the Mexican Revolution, he became an officer in the...
  
   (1889–1963)
• Paul Richard Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg
  Paul Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg
  Colonel Paul Richard Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg, MC was a British peer.The son of General Bernard Freyberg and his wife Barbara McLaren, he was educated in Eton College, Berkshire. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards...
  
   (1923–1993)
• Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg
  Valerian Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg
  Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg is a British peer.The son of Colonel the 2nd Baron Freyberg and Ivry Perronelle Katharine, he was educated at Eton College, Berkshire and in the Camberwell College of Arts, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994. He succeeded to his...
  
   (b. 1970)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Joseph John Freyberg (b. 2007)