Baron Parmoor, of Frieth in the County of Buckingham, 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 1914 for the lawyer and politician Sir Charles Cripps

Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor

Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor KCVO, PC, QC was a British politician who crossed the floor from the Conservative to the Labour Party and was a strong supporter of the League of Nations and of Church of England causes....

. Two of his sons, the second and third Baron, both succeeded in the title. The third Baron was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron. the title is held by the latter's first cousin, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2008. He is the grandson of Major the Hon. Leonard Harrison Cripps, third son of the first Baron.

The Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 politician the Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps

Stafford Cripps

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...

 was the youngest son of the first Baron.

Parmoor House in Parmoor hamlet near Frieth

Frieth

Frieth is a village in the parish of Hambleden, in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies on the top of 'Frieth Hill', which is part of the chalk escarpments of the Chiltern Hills....

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, was the home of the first Baron Parmoor.

Barons Parmoor (1914)

• Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor (1852–1941)
• Alfred Henry Seddon Cripps, 2nd Baron Parmoor (1882–1977)
• Frederick Heyworth Cripps, 3rd Baron Parmoor (1885–1977)
• Frederick Alfred Milo Cripps, 4th Baron Parmoor (1929–2008)
• Michael Leonard Seddon Cripps, 5th Baron Parmoor (b. 1942)