Baron Dinorben
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Baron Dinorben, of Kinmel in the County of Denbigh, was 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 10 September 1831 for William Hughes
William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben
William Lewis Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben , was a British copper mine owner, philanthropist and Whig politician....

, the long-standing Whig Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Wallingford
Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)
Wallingford was a constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It was a parliamentary borough created in 1295, centred on the market town Wallingford in Berkshire . It used to return two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons; this was cut to one in 1832, and...

. He was succeeded by his younger and only surviving son, the second Baron. On his early death on 6 October 1852, only eight months after the death of his father, the barony became extinct.

Barons Dinorben (1831)

  • William Lewis Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben
    William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben
    William Lewis Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben , was a British copper mine owner, philanthropist and Whig politician....

    (1767–1852)
  • William Lewis Hughes, 2nd Baron Dinorben (1821–1852)
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