Baron Hindlip
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Baron Hindlip, of Hindlip
Hindlip Hall
Hindlip Hall is in Worcestershire. The first major hall was built before 1575. It played a significant role in both the Babington and the Gunpowder plots . It was Humphrey Littleton who told the authorities that Edward Oldcorne was hiding here after he had been heard saying Mass at Hindlip Hall...

 in the County of Worcester
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

 and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the County of Derby
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

, 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 in 1886 for the businessman and Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 politician Sir Henry Allsopp, 1st Baronet
Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip
Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip , was a British businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament ....

. He was head of the brewing firm of Samuel Allsopp & Sons
Samuel Allsopp & Sons
Samuel Allsopp & Sons was one of the largest brewery companies operating in Burton upon Trent, England.Allsopp’s origins go back to the 1740s, when Benjamin Wilson, an innkeeper-brewer of Burton, brewed beer for his own premises and sold some to other innkeepers...

 of Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a town straddling the River Trent in the east of Staffordshire, England. Its associated adjective is "Burtonian"....

 and also represented East Worcestershire
East Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Worcestershire was a county constituency in the county of Worcestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

 in Parliament. Allsopp had already been created a Baronet, of Hindlip Hall, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 May 1880. His son, the second Baron, was also head of the family firm and sat as Conservative 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 Staffordshire East and Taunton
Taunton (UK Parliament constituency)
Taunton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors from 1295 to 2010, taking its name from the town of Taunton in Somerset...

. His son, the third Baron, was a junior Unionist whip in the House of Lords
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....

 from 1907 to 1914. The third Baron's younger son, the fifth baron (who succeeded his elder brother), was a Deputy Lieutenant
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....

 of Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

. , the titles are held by the latter's son, the sixth Baron, who succeeded in 1993.

Barons Hindlip (1886)

  • Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip
    Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip
    Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip , was a British businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament ....

     (1811–1887)
  • Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip
    Samuel Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip
    Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip , was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1873 and 1887 when he inherited the peerage....

     (1842–1897)
  • Charles Allsopp, 3rd Baron Hindlip (1877–1931)
  • Charles Samuel Victor Allsopp, 4th Baron Hindlip (1906–1966)
  • Henry Richard Allsopp, 5th Baron Hindlip (1 July 1912–1993)
  • Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip (born 5 August 1940)


The sixth Baron has been married to Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley McGowan (born 1947) since 1968. 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 their only son, the Hon. Henry William Allsopp (born 8 June 1973). The sixth Baron and his wife also have three daughters: television presenter the Hon. Kirstie Allsopp
Kirstie Allsopp
Kirstie Mary Allsopp is a British TV presenter known for the Channel 4 property programmes: Location, Location, Location; Relocation, Relocation; Location Revisited; The Property Chain; Kirstie's Homemade Home and Kirstie's Handmade Britain...

 (born 1971); television presenter the Hon. Sofie Allsopp
Sofie Allsopp
Sofie Allsopp is a British television presenter. Her parents are Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and Fiona Victoria Jean Atherley . Sofie has two sisters: television presenter Kirstie Allsopp and Natasha , and a brother, Henry...

(born 1980), and the Hon. Natasha (born 1986).
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