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6 unusual facts about Baron Strabolgi


Baron Strabolgi

The eighteenth-century gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Dixie was heiress to the traitor George Brooke (who was attainted and executed for his part in the Bye Plot against James I) and his wife Elizabeth, eldest sister of the last Baron Burgh; Brooke had been brother and heir to the last Baron Cobham of Kent, who had been attainted for his part in the Main Plot.

Basil Barton

Kenworthy succeeded to the peerage in 1934 as Baron Strabolgi, and at the 1935 general election Barton defended his seat against the Labour candidate Walter Windsor.

The seat had been held since 1919 by Lieutenant-Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy, who had first been elected as a Liberal Party and had been comfortably returned in 1926 when he sought re-election after joining the Labour Party.

David Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi

The title of Baron Strabolgi was created in 1318 for the tenth Earl of Atholl.

The second period of abeyance was terminated in 1916 in favour of Cuthbert Kenworthy, the grandfather of the 11th Baron Strabolgi, who succeeded Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi in 1953.

Joseph Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi

When he died in 1953, he was succeeded by David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi, another left-wing politician and member of the Labour Party.



see also

Thomas Burgh

Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh (c.1558–1597), English peer, 7th Baron Strabolgi, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597