Baron Altrincham, of Tormarton

Tormarton

Tormarton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. Its name comes from Thor Maer Tun meaning The settlement with the thorn on the boundary. It is one mile North-East of junction 18 of the M4 motorway, with the A46 road and close to the border between Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire. As...

 in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created on 1 August 1945 for the politician Edward Grigg

Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham

Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC, PC was a British colonial administrator and politician.-Early years:...

. His son, the second Baron, was a politician, journalist, historian and writer. Soon after the passage of the Peerage Act 1963

Peerage Act 1963

The Peerage Act 1963 is the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permitted peeresses in their own right and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and which allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be "disclaimed".-Background:The Act resulted largely from the...

, he disclaimed the title for life. the title is held by his younger brother, who succeeded to the disclaimed peerage in 2001.

Barons Altrincham (1945)

• Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham
  Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham
  Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC, PC was a British colonial administrator and politician.-Early years:...
  
   (1879–1955)
• John Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham
  John Grigg (writer)
  John Edward Poynder Grigg was a British writer, historian and politician. He was the 2nd Baron Altrincham from 1955 until he disclaimed that title under the Peerage Act on the day it received the Royal Assent in 1963.-Early years:John Grigg was the son of Edward Grigg, a Times journalist...
  
   (1924–2001) (disclaimed 1963)
• Anthony Ulick David Dundas Grigg, 3rd Baron Altrincham (b. 1934)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is the present holder's son the Hon. Edward Sebastian Grigg (b. 1965)

The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Edward Laurence Dundas De Miramont Grigg (b. 1995)