Baron Ribblesdale, of Gisburne Park in the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain

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. It was created on 26 October 1797 for Thomas Lister, the former Member of Parliament

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 for Clitheroe

Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)

Clitheroe was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire.The town of Clitheroe was first enfranchised as a parliamentary borough in 1559, returning two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and finally to the...

. His great-grandson (the title having descended from father to son), the fourth Baron, was a Liberal

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 politician and served as Master of the Buckhounds

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 from 1892 to 1895. He had no surviving male issue and on his death on 21 October 1925 the barony became extinct.

The first Baron's father, Thomas Lister, grandfather, Thomas Lister, and uncle, Nathaniel Lister ( of Armitage Park

Armitage Park

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, Staffordshire), also represented Clitheroe in the House of Commons

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. The latter's grandson, Thomas Henry Lister

Thomas Henry Lister

Thomas Henry Lister was an English novelist and Registrar General.-Life and writings:Lister was the son of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park and his first wife Harriet Anne Seale. His maternal grandfather was John Seale...

, was a novelist and Registrar General

Registrar General

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. The Hon. Sir Reginald Lister (1865–1912), third son of the third Baron, was a diplomat.

Ancestors

• Thomas Lister (1688-1745), Member of Parliament for Clitheroe 1710–1745
• Thomas Lister (1723-1761), son of the above, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe 1745–1761

Barons Ribblesdale (1797)

• Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale (1752–1826)
• Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale (1790–1832)
• Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (1828–1876)
• Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale
  Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale
  Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale , was a British Liberal politician.-Background:Born in Fontainebleau, France, Ribblesdale was the eldest son of Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale, and his wife Emma daughter of William Mure, and succeeded his father in the barony in 1876.-Political...
  
  (1854–1925)
  • Hon. Thomas Lister (1878–1904)
  • Hon. Charles Alfred Lister (1887–1915)