Baron Rugby, of Rugby

Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...

 in the County of Warwick, 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 1947 for the civil servant Sir John Maffey

John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby

John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby, GCMG, KCB, KCVO, CSI, CIE was a British civil servant.Maffey was the younger son of Thomas Maffey, a commercial traveller of Rugby, Warwickshire, and his wife Mary Penelope, daughter of John Loader...

. He was Governor-General of the Sudan

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan referred to the manner by which Sudan was administered between 1899 and 1956, when it was a condominium of Egypt and the United Kingdom.-Union with Egypt:...

 between 1926 and 1933 and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a Minister of State....

 between 1933 and 1937. The title is now held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1990.

The Hon. Penelope Aitken

Penelope Aitken

Penelope Loader, Lady Aitken, MBE , styled The Honorable Lady Aitken and nicknamed 'Pempe', was an English socialite.-Biography:...

, mother of the former 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 Jonathan Aitken

Jonathan Aitken

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, and British government minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months...

 and of the actress Maria Aitken

Maria Aitken

Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken is an English actress, writer, producer and director.Aitken was born in Dublin, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and socialite Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and...

, was the daughter of the first Baron Rugby.

Barons Rugby (1947)

• John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
  John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
  John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby, GCMG, KCB, KCVO, CSI, CIE was a British civil servant.Maffey was the younger son of Thomas Maffey, a commercial traveller of Rugby, Warwickshire, and his wife Mary Penelope, daughter of John Loader...
  
  (1877–1969)
• Alan Loader Maffey, 2nd Baron Rugby (1913–1990)
• Robert Charles Maffey, 3rd Baron Rugby (b. 1951)