Baron St Levan, of St Michael's Mount in the County of Cornwall, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 4 July 1887 for the former Member of Parliament

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 Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet

John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan

John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan , known as Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet, from 1872 to 1887, was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 until 1887 when he was raised to the peerage.-Early life:St Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward St...

. He had previously represented Cornwall West in House of Commons

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 as a Liberal

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 and St Ives

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 as a Liberal Unionist. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He was a Colonel

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 and Honorary Brigadier-General in the Grenadier Guards

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. On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the third Baron. He was the son of the Hon. Sir Arthur James Dudley Stuart St Aubyn (1867–1897), second son of the first Baron. the titles are held by the third Baron's son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1978. The St Aubyn Baronetcy, of St Michael's Mount in the County of Cornwall, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1866 for the first Baron's father, Edward St Aubyn. He was the illegitimate son of Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, of Clowance

Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet

Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet , was a British Member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Cornwall and Grand Master of the Freemasons....

, on whose death in 1839 the baronetcy of Clowance had become extinct (see St Aubyn Baronets

St Aubyn Baronets

There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the St Aubyn family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom....

).

The ancestral seat of the St Aubyn family is the castle on St Michael's Mount

St Michael's Mount

St Michael's Mount is a tidal island located off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a civil parish and is united with the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water....

, Cornwall

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. The castle was sold to the National Trust

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 in 1954 but is still the home of the family.

St Aubyn Baronets, of St Michaels Mount (1866)

• Sir Edward St Aubyn, 1st Baronet (1799–1872)
• Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet
  John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan
  John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan , known as Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet, from 1872 to 1887, was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 until 1887 when he was raised to the peerage.-Early life:St Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward St...
  
   (created Baron St Levan in 1887)

Barons Saint Levan (1887)

• John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan
  John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan
  John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan , known as Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet, from 1872 to 1887, was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 until 1887 when he was raised to the peerage.-Early life:St Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward St...
  
   (1829–1908)
• John Townshend St Aubyn, 2nd Baron Saint Levan (1857–1940)
• Francis Cecil St Aubyn, 3rd Baron Saint Levan (1895–1978)
• John Francis Arthur St Aubyn, 4th Baron Saint Levan (b. 1919)

The heir presumptive

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 is the present holder's nephew James Piers Southwell St Aubyn (b. 1950)

The heir presumptive's heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is his son Hugh James St Aubyn (b. 1983)