Baron Mottistone, of Mottistone in the County of Southampton, 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 1933 for the soldier and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician J. E. B. Seely

J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone

John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924...

. He was the fourth son of Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet

Colonel Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet KGStJ was a British industrialist and politician.Seely was Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Nottingham from 1869 to 1874 and 1880 to 1885, and for Nottingham West from 1885 to 1886, and Liberal Unionist MP for Nottingham West from 1892 to 1895...

, and the uncle of Hugh Seely, 1st Baron Sherwood

Hugh Seely, 1st Baron Sherwood

Hugh Michael Seely, 1st Baron Sherwood was a British Liberal politician. He was the third baronet of the Seely family, of Sherwood Lodge, Nottinghamshire....

. The fourth Baron, succeeded his half-brother in 1966 (who in his turn had succeeded his elder brother in 1963). He notably served Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight

Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight:*1 April 1974 – 1979: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma *1980–1985: Sir John Nicholson, 2nd Baronet...

 from 1986 to 1995 and as the last Governor of the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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 between 1992 to 1995 and was succeeded by his son as the fifth Baron, in 2011.

Barons Mottistone (1933)

• John Edward Bernard "Jack" Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
  J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
  John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924...
  
   (1868–1947)
• Henry John Alexander Seely, 2nd Baron Mottistone (1899–1963)
• Arthur Patrick William Seely, 3rd Baron Mottistone (1905–1966)
• David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone
  David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone
  Captain David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone CBE KStJ was a British peer.Seely was born in 1920. He was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Mottistone from his second marriage to the Hon. Evelyn Izme Murray daughter of Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank and 10th Lord Elibank. He was...
  
   (1920-2011)
• Peter John Philip Seely, 5th Baron Mottistone (b. 1949)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son, the Hon. Christopher David Peter Seely (b. 1974)