Baron Wynford, of Wynford Eagle in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1829 for the politician and lawyer Sir William Best. He served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

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 from 1824 to 1829. His eldest son, the second Baron, represented Mitchell

Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)

Mitchell, or St Michael was a rotten borough consisting of the town of Mitchell, Cornwall. From the first Parliament of Edward VI, in 1547, it elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.-History:The borough encompassed parts of two parishes, Newlyn East and St Enoder...

 (also known as St Michael's) in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 from 1831 to 1832, when the constituency was abolished. On the death of his younger son, the fourth Baron, this line of the family failed. The late Baron was succeeded by his first cousin, the fifth Baron. He was the son of Reverend the Hon. Samuel Best, third son of the first Baron. the title is held by his great-grandson, the ninth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2002.

Barons Wynford (1829)

• William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford (1767–1845)
• William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford
  William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford
  William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford , was a British peer.-Background:Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire , Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second...
  
   (1798–1869)
• William Draper Mortimer Best, 3rd Baron Wynford (1826–1899)
• Henry Molyneux Best, 4th Baron Wynford (1829–1903)
• George Best, 5th Baron Wynford (1838–1904)
• Philip George Best, 6th Baron Wynford (1871–1940)
• Samuel John Best, 7th Baron Wynford (1874–1943)
• Robert Samuel Best, 8th Baron Wynford (1917–2002)
• John Philip Robert Best, 9th Baron Wynford (b. 1950)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's only son the Hon. Harry Robert Francis Best (b. 1987)