Earl of Ducie
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The title of Earl of Ducie was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1837.
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Baron Ducie (1763) in the Peerage of Great Britain and Baron Moreton (1837) in the Peerage of the UK. One of the family seats was Spring Park, Gloucestershire, which was demolished and replaced with the incomplete Woodchester Mansion.
[edit] Barons Ducie (of Moreton), First Creation (1720)
- Matthew (Ducie) Moreton, 1st Baron Ducie (1663-1735)
- (Benjamin) Matthew Ducie Moreton, 2nd Baron Ducie (1695-1770) (became 1st Baron Ducie of Tortworth in 1763)
[edit] Barons Ducie (of Tortworth), Second Creation (1763)
- (Benjamin) Matthew Ducie Moreton , 1st Baron Ducie (1695-1770)
- Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 2nd Baron Ducie (1733-1785)
- Francis Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie (1739-1808)
- Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 4th Baron Ducie (1766-1840) (became Earl of Ducie in 1837)
Note: The second and third Barons were brothers, born as Reynolds, but assumed the surname Moreton in 1771 [DNB]
[edit] Earls of Ducie (1837)
- Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie (1766-1840)
- Henry George Francis (Reynolds-)Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie (1802-1853)
- Henry John (Reynolds-)Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie (1827-1921)
- Berkeley Basil Moreton, 4th Earl of Ducie (1834-1924)
- Capel Henry Berkeley Reynolds Moreton, 5th Earl of Ducie (1875-1952)
- Basil Howard Moreton, 6th Earl of Ducie (1917- 1991)
- David Leslie Moreton, 7th Earl of Ducie (b. 1951)
- The Heir Apparent is James Berkeley Moreton, Lord Moreton (b. 1981)
