Baron Harmsworth, of Egham in the County of Surrey

Egham

Egham is a wealthy suburb in the Runnymede borough of Surrey, in the south-east of England. It is part of the London commuter belt and Greater London Urban Area, and about south-west of central London on the River Thames and near junction 13 of the M25 motorway.-Demographics:Egham town has a...

, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1939 for the Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician Cecil Harmsworth, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

|The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been a junior position in the British government since 1782, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...

 between 1919 and 1922. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1990.

The first Baron Harmsworth was the younger brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market.His company...

 and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror....

 and the elder brother of Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet

Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet , was a British businessman and Liberal politician.-Background:...

, and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet.

Barons Harmsworth (1939)

• Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth (1869–1948)
• Cecil Desmond Bernard Harmsworth, 2nd Baron Harmsworth (1903–1990)
• Thomas Harold Raymond Harmsworth, 3rd Baron Harmsworth (b. 1939)

See also

• Viscount Northcliffe
  Viscount Northcliffe
  Viscount Northcliffe, of St Peter in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, It was created in 1918 for the press baron Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Baron Northcliffe. He had already been created a Baronet in 1904 and Baron Northcliffe, of the Isle of Thanet in the County of...
  
  
• Viscount Rothermere
  Viscount Rothermere
  Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. He had already been created a Baronet, of Horsey in the County of Norfolk, on 14 July 1910, and Baron...
  
  
• Harmsworth Baronets, of Moray Lodge, and Harmsworth Baronets, of Freshwater Grove
  Harmsworth Baronets
  There have been four Baronetcies created for members of the Harmsworth family, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All four recipients were brothers of each other....