Baron Heneage, of Hainton in the County of Lincoln, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 8 June 1896 for Edward Heneage

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage PC, JP, DL was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician. He was briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone between February and April 1886, when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal...

. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

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 under William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

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 between February and April 1886, when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule. He was succeeded by his eldest son George, the second Baron. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lincolnshire Regiment and fought in both the Second Boer War

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 and the First World War. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his third and youngest brother, Reverend Edward Heneage, the third Baron. He was Rector

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 of St Mark's Church, Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

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. He was also unmarried and on his death on 19 February 1967 the barony became extinct.

George Heneage

George Heneage

George Fieschi Heneage was a British Whig and later Conservative Party politician.-Background:Heneage was the son of George Robert Heneage and Frances Anne, daughter of Lieutenant-General George Ainslie...

, father of the first Baron, was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Grimsby

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 and for Lincoln

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, while Edward Heneage

Edward Heneage (1802–1880)

Edward Heneage was a British Whig politician.Heneage was the son of George Robert Heneage and his wife Frances Anne Ainslie....

, uncle of the first Baron, was Member of Parliament for Grimsby.

Barons Heneage (1896)

• Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage
  Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage
  Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage PC, JP, DL was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician. He was briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone between February and April 1886, when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal...
  
  (1840–1922)
• George Edward Heneage, 2nd Baron Heneage (1866–1954)
• Edward Heneage, 3rd Baron Heneage (1877–1967)