Baron Masham
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The title of Baron Masham has been created once in the Peerage of Great Britain and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In the Peerage of Great Britain for the courtier, Samuel Masham and firstly, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1891 for the industrialist Samuel Lister, and this became extinct upon the death of the 3rd Baron in 1924.
It was created again in 1955 for Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton, a Conservative politician, who was at the same time created Earl of Swinton. The wife of the 2nd Earl, Susan Cunliffe-Lister is also a Life Peer in her own right as Baroness Masham of Ilton.
Note: there is an older, separate title Baron Scrope of Masham, in abeyance since 1517 that belongs to the Scrope family.
[edit] Barons Masham (1712)
- Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham (c.1679-1758)
- Samuel Masham, 2nd Baron Masham (1712-1776), title extinct.
[edit] Barons Masham (1891)
- Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
- Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham (d 1917)
- John Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Baron Masham (d. 1924)
[edit] Earls of Swinton (1955)
- Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton (1884-1972) - known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924
- David Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton (1937-2006)
- Nicholas John Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Earl of Swinton (born 1939)
Heir Presumptive: Mark William Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Baron Masham (son of the present Earl)
