Baron Iliffe, of Yattendon

Yattendon

Yattendon is a village and civil parish northeast of Newbury, Berkshire. The M4 motorway passes about south of the village.-Geography:Yattendon stretches from Everington in the west to the hamlet of Burnt Hill in the east and the woodland just east of Yattendon Court, including Mumgrove Copse,...

 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

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. It was created in 1933 for the newspaper magnate Sir Edward Iliffe

Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe

Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe , was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament.Iliffe was the son of William Isaac Iliffe, a publisher and Justice of the Peace, of Allesley near Coventry...

. For many years the family controlled newspapers in Birmingham

Birmingham

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 and Coventry

Coventry

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, including the Birmingham Post

Birmingham Post

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, the Birmingham Mail

Birmingham Mail

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and the Coventry Evening Telegraph

Coventry Evening Telegraph

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and were also part owners of the Daily Telegraph. The first Baron also represented Tamworth

Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in Parliament as a Conservative

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. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1996. He is the current Commodore of The Royal Yacht Squadron

Royal Yacht Squadron

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 of Cowes, Isle of Wight. Lord Iliffe and the rest of the Iliffe family holds (2006) an estimated fortune (according to the Sunday Times Rich List

Sunday Times Rich List

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) of £200m.

The family surname and the title of the barony is pronounced "EYE-liff".

Barons Iliffe (1933)

• Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe
  Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe
  Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe , was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament.Iliffe was the son of William Isaac Iliffe, a publisher and Justice of the Peace, of Allesley near Coventry...
  
   (1877–1960)
• (Edward) Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe
  Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe
  Edward Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe , generally known as Langton Illiffe, was a British peer. He was the son of Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe and his wife, Charlotte, daughter of Henry Gilding....
  
   (1908–1996)
• Robert Peter Richard Iliffe, 3rd Baron Iliffe (b. 1944)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Edward Richard Iliffe (b. 1968)