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unusual facts about John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley


Walter Wrottesley

His descendant, Sir Walter Wrottesley (d. 1659), was created a baronet on 30 Aug. 1642, and the seventh baronet, Sir Richard Wrottesley (d. 1769), dean of Worcester, was grandfather of John, first baron Wrottesley.


John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley

On 11 July 1838 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wrottesley, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford.

Lord Wrottesley died in March 1841, aged 69, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son John Wrottesley.

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

In 1853 he called the attention of the House of Lords to Lieutenant Maury's valuable scheme of meteorological observations and discoveries; and on Nov. 30, 1855, succeeded the Earl of Rosse as President of the Royal Society.


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