Baron Kensington - UK Title (1886)

UK Title (1886)

William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington, sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Haverfordwest from 1868 to 1885 and served as a government whip under William Ewart Gladstone from 1880 to 1885. In 1886 he was created Baron Kensington, of Kensington in the County of Middlesex, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave the Barons an automatic seat in the House of Lords. His eldest son, the fifth Baron, served in the Second Boer War and died from wounds received in action in June 1900. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Baron. He was a Colonel in the Territorial Army and also fought in South Africa as well as in the First World War. As of 2010 the titles are held by his grandson, the eighth Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1981.