Baron Westwood, of Gosforth in the County of Northumberland, is 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 in 1944 for the trade unionist William Westwood

William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood

William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood OBE , was a British trade unionist and Labour politician.Westwood was the son of William Westwood of Dundee, Scotland...

. He was General Secretary of the Ship Constructors' and Shipwrights' Association (now part of GMB Union

GMB Union

The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 600,000 members. Its members are drawn from many sectors, with particular strength amongst manual workers in local government and the health service...

) from 1929 to 1945. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1991.

Barons Westwood (1944)

• William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood
  William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood
  William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood OBE , was a British trade unionist and Labour politician.Westwood was the son of William Westwood of Dundee, Scotland...
  
   (1880–1953)
• William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood
  William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood
  William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood was a British peer, director of Hornby Railways and former chairman of Newcastle United.-Biography:...
  
  (1907–1991)
• William Gavin Westwood, 3rd Baron Westwood (b. 1944)