Sir Hugh's descendants by the second wife Isabel and son John became peers Baronets and Barons Wrottesley after several generations.
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His armorials were described as follows by George Wrottesley, in his History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co.
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He was the son of Sir William Wrottesley, and lord of Wrottesley in Staffordshire.
On 11 July 1838 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wrottesley, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford.
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Lord Wrottesley died in March 1841, aged 69, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son John Wrottesley.
Baron Wrottesley, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (and any member of the Wrottesley family holding that title)
Baron Wrottesley | Wrottesley | George Wrottesley | Clifton Wrottesley | John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley | John Wrottesley |
He is married to Sascha Wrottesley, née Schwarzenbach, Lady Wrottesley and the daughter of Urs Schwarzenbach, a Swiss financier.
Wrottesley's political connections were strengthened when his uncle, Gower, joined the Cabinet as Lord President of the Council in 1767, and again two years later when his sister married the Prime Minister, the Duke of Grafton.
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.