Baron Swinfen, of Chertsey in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1919 for the lawyer and judge Sir Charles Swinfen Eady

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen PC, QC , was a British lawyer and judge.Eady was the son of George John Eady of Chertsey, Surrey, and his wife Laura Maria Smith, daughter of Richard Smith. He was educated privately and at the University of London, and was admitted a solicitor in 1874. In...

 upon his retirement as Master of the Rolls

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. He died only two weeks after his elevation to the peerage and was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1977. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits on the Conservative

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 benches.

The author Mary Wesley

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 was the first wife of the second Baron Swinfen and the mother of the third Baron.

Barons Swinfen (1919)

• Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen
  Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen
  Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen PC, QC , was a British lawyer and judge.Eady was the son of George John Eady of Chertsey, Surrey, and his wife Laura Maria Smith, daughter of Richard Smith. He was educated privately and at the University of London, and was admitted a solicitor in 1874. In...
  
   (1851–1919)
• Charles Swinfen Eady, 2nd Baron Swinfen (1904–1977)
• Roger Mynors Swinfen Eady, 3rd Baron Swinfen
  Roger Swinfen Eady, 3rd Baron Swinfen
  Roger Mynors Swinfen Eady, 3rd Baron Swinfen is a British peer. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999....
  
  (b. 1938)