Baron Ravensdale, of Ravensdale in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 2 November 1911 for the Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC , known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary...

, with remainder, in default of issue male, to his eldest daughter and the heirs male of her body, failing whom to his other daughters in like manner in order of primogeniture. Curzon was created Viscount Scarsdale and Earl Curzon of Kedleston at the same time. The viscounty was created with special remainder to the heirs male of his father while the earldom was created with normal remainder to heirs male. Curzon had already in 1898 been created Baron Curzon of Kedleston in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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 (the last Irish peerage to be created), with remainder to heirs male. Also, in 1916 he succeeded his father as fifth Baron Scarsdale and in 1921 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Kedleston and Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, with remainder to heirs male.

Lord Curzon died without male issue and, on his death in 1925, the barony of Curzon of Kedleston, the two earldoms and the marquessate became extinct. He was succeeded in the viscountcy of Scarsdale according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Viscount (who also succeeded as sixth Baron Scarsdale; see Viscount Scarsdale

Viscount Scarsdale

Viscount Scarsdale, of Scarsdale in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the prominent Conservative politician and former Viceroy of India George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston, who was created Earl Curzon of Kedleston at the same...

 for further history of this branch of the family). The barony of Ravensdale passed according to the special remainder to his eldest daughter Mary Irene.

In 1958, following the passage of the Life Peerages Act which permitted women to sit in the House of Lords, Lady Ravensdale was granted a life peerage with the title of Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston, of Kedleston in the County of Derby. Lady Ravensdale was succeeded in the hereditary title by her nephew, Nicholas Mosley, the third and present Baron. He is the son of Lady Cynthia

Lady Cynthia Mosley

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 (second daughter of Lord Curzon of Kedleston), by her husband Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet. In 1980 he also succeeded his father as seventh Baronet, of Ancoats (see Mosley Baronets

Mosley Baronets

There have been three Baronetcies created for members of the Mosley family, one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of Great Britain...

 for earlier history of this title).

Barons Ravensdale (1911)

• George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 1st Baron Ravensdale
  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC , known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary...
  
   (1859–1925)
• Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale (1896–1966)
• Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (b. 1923)

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 the present holder's grandson Daniel Nicholas Mosley (b. 1982), the eldest son of his eldest son, the Hon. Shaun Nicholas Mosley (b. 1949, d. 2009)

See also

• Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  The title Marquess Curzon of Kedleston was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1921 for the Foreign Secretary George Nathaniel Curzon, the then 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston. The title became extinct upon his death four years later....
  
  
• Earl of Kedleston
• Earl Curzon of Kedleston
• Viscount Scarsdale
  Viscount Scarsdale
  Viscount Scarsdale, of Scarsdale in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the prominent Conservative politician and former Viceroy of India George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston, who was created Earl Curzon of Kedleston at the same...
  
  
• Baron Scarsdale
• Baron Curzon of Kedleston
• Baron Anslow
• Mosley Baronets
  Mosley Baronets
  There have been three Baronetcies created for members of the Mosley family, one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of Great Britain...