Baron Portal of Hungerford, of Hungerford in the County of Berkshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Marshal of the Royal Air Force is the highest rank in the Royal Air Force. In peacetime it was granted to RAF officers in the appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff, and to retired Chiefs of the Air Staff, who were promoted to it on their last day of service. Promotions to the rank have ceased...

 Sir Charles Portal

Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG GCB OM DSO & Bar MC was a senior Royal Air Force officer and an advocate of strategic bombing...

 upon his retirement as Chief of the Air Staff, with remainder in default of male issue to his daughter, Rosemary Portal, and the heirs male of her body. In 1946 Portal was further honoured when he was created Viscount Portal of Hungerford, of Hungerford in the County of Berkshire, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with normal remainder to the male issue of his body. The viscountcy became extinct on Lord Portal of Hungerford's death in 1971 as he left no surviving sons, while he was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his daughter Rosemary. She sat as a cross-bencher

Cross-bencher

A crossbencher is an independent or minor party member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and Australian Senate. They take their name from the crossbenches, between and perpendicular to the government and opposition benches, where crossbenchers sit in the chamber; compare...

 in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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. However, Lady Portal of Hungerford died without issue, and the barony became extinct on her death.

Viscounts Portal of Hungerford (1946)

• Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, 1st Baron Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971)

Barons Portal of Hungerford (1945; Reverted)

• Rosemary Portal, 2nd Baroness Portal of Hungerford (1923–1990)