Baron Lurgan, of Lurgan in the County of Armagh, 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 in 1839 for Charles Brownlow

Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan

Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan PC was an Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832 and was raised to the peerage in 1839....

, who had previously represented Armagh

Armagh (UK Parliament constituency)

Armagh or County Armagh was a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons. It was replaced in boundary changes in 1983.The Act of Union 1800 provided for the Parliament of Ireland to be merged with the Parliament of Great Britain, to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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. His son, the second Baron, served as a Government Whip from 1869 to 1874 in the first Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 administration of William Gladstone and was also Lord Lieutenant of Armagh

Lord Lieutenant of Armagh

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. The title became extinct in 1991 on the death of the latter's great-grandson, the fifth Baron.

Barons Lurgan (1839)

• Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan
  Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan
  Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan PC was an Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832 and was raised to the peerage in 1839....
  
   (1795–1847)
• Charles Brownlow, 2nd Baron Lurgan
  Charles Brownlow, 2nd Baron Lurgan
  Charles Brownlow, 2nd Baron Lurgan KP , was a Anglo-Irish Liberal politician.Lurgan was the son of Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan, and his second wife Jane , and succeeded his father in the barony in 1847...
  
  (1831–1882)
• William Brownlow, 3rd Baron Lurgan (1858–1937)
• William George Edward Brownlow, 4th Baron Lurgan (1902–1984)
• John Desmond Cavendish Brownlow, 5th Baron Lurgan (1911–1991)