Baron Geddes, of Rolvenden

Rolvenden

Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the A28 Ashford to Hastings road, south-west of Tenterden.The settlement of Rolvenden Layne, south of Rolvenden, is also in the parish.-History:...

 in the County of Kent

Kent

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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 1942 for the prominent Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician and former Ambassador to the United States, Sir Auckland Geddes

Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes

Auckland Campbell-Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes GCMG, KCB, PC was a British academic, soldier, politician and diplomat...

. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1975. He 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 on the Conservative benches.

Sir Eric Geddes, British Minister of Munitions and First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, was the elder brother of the first Baron.

Barons Geddes (1942)

• Auckland Campbell Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
  Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
  Auckland Campbell-Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes GCMG, KCB, PC was a British academic, soldier, politician and diplomat...
  
   (1879–1954)
• Ross Campbell Geddes, 2nd Baron Geddes (1907–1975)
• Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes
  Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes
  Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes is a British peer and politician and current deputy speaker of the House of Lords....
  
   (b. 1937)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is the present holder's son the Hon. James George Neil Geddes (b. 1969)