Baron Wyfold, of Accrington in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 17 May 1919 for Sir Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baronet

Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold

Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold was a British Conservative politician.Born as Robert Trotter Hodge, he was the son of G W Hodge of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated at Clifton College and Worcester College, Oxford...

, the former Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Accrington

Accrington (UK Parliament constituency)

Accrington was a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.-History:...

, Henley

Henley (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Croydon

Croydon (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wyfold Court in the Parish of Chickendon in the County of Oxford, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1902. Born Robert Hodge, he assumed in 1903 by Royal license the additional surname of Hermon, which was that of his father-in-law, Edward Hermon

Edward Hermon

Edward Hermon was a British Conservative Party politician.At the 1868 general election he was elected on his first attempt a Member of Parliament for the two-seat constituency of Preston in Lancashire. He was re-elected in 1874 and in 1880, and held the seat until he died in office in 1881, aged...

. The titles became extinct on the death of Lord Wyfold's grandson, the third Baron, on 8 April 1999.

Barons Wyfold (1919)

• Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold
  Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold
  Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold was a British Conservative politician.Born as Robert Trotter Hodge, he was the son of G W Hodge of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated at Clifton College and Worcester College, Oxford...
  
  (1851–1937)
• Roland Hermon Hermon-Hodge, 2nd Baron Wyfold (1880–1942)
• Hermon Robert Fleming Hermon-Hodge, 3rd Baron Wyfold (1915–1999)