Baron Rotherham
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Baron Rotherham, of Broughton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was 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 on 18 July 1910 for the industrialist and 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 Sir William Holland, 1st Baronet
William Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham
William Henry Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.He was the second son of William Holland, a cotton spinner of Higher Broughton, near Manchester. In 1872 he became a partner in the family business Messrs William Holland and Sons...

. He had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 18 July 1907. Both titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, on 24 January 1950.

Barons Rotherham (1910)

  • William Henry Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham
    William Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham
    William Henry Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.He was the second son of William Holland, a cotton spinner of Higher Broughton, near Manchester. In 1872 he became a partner in the family business Messrs William Holland and Sons...

     (1849–1927)
  • Stuart Lund Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham
    Stuart Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham
    Stuart Lund Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham was born on 25 October 1876. He was the son of William Henry Holland, 1st Baron Rotherham and Mary Lund. He married Miriam Agnes Wright on 25 October 1909. He died on 24 January 1950 at age 73....

    (1876–1950)
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