It was created in 1924 for the businessman and Conservative politician Sir Frederick Banbury, 1st Baronet.
Baron | Frederick the Great | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Frederick | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Frederick II | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Banbury | Frederick Russell Burnham | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Frederick Law Olmsted | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick Forsyth | Frederick Douglass | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Frederick, Maryland | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | baron | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Sacha Baron Cohen | Frederick III | Frederick I | Frederick Delius |
He was the last chairman of the GNR, which lost its identity when, under the Railways Act 1921, it was grouped with several other railways on 1 January 1923 to become a constituent of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).