Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births 2025

[Henry W]

This follows: Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births, 2024 (Peerage News Group)

8 years of work on this can be found here: Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births (Google Docs) - previous years have received updates on the Google Doc only.

Corrections and updates are very gratefully received. I confess I have not done as much checking of this list as I would like - I know that at times I have been distracted by other events in life, so haven't diligently read & recorded each thread of relevance.  I am particularly worried that I have missed births of heirs.

Inevitably a few more deaths will come to light during the last few days of the year and into the new year.   I am now including various categories of deaths (peers, baronets, heirs, centenarians and Joint LGCs), and births of those likely to succeed to titles.

HEREDITARY PEERS
MARQUESSES
Conyngham (18 June), Townshend (20 Nov)

EARLS
Sandwich (1 Feb, retd 2024), Donoughmore (25 Apr)

VISCOUNTS
Knutsford (3 Jan), Craigavon (31 Mar, EXTINCT)

BARONS & LORDS OF PARLIAMENT
MacLay (18 Feb), Rathdonnell (28 Feb), St Helens (1 Mar), O'Hagan (23 Mar), Borthwick (26 Mar), Forres (12 Apr), Phillimore (14 May), Raglan (9 Sep), Brain (6 Nov), Rathcavan (11 Nov), Parmoor (18 Nov), Coleridge (19 Nov)

LIFE PEERS
Oppenheim-Barnes (1 Jan, retd 2019), Randerson (4 Jan), Davies of Stamford (13 Jan, retd 2023), Brookman (22 Jan, retd 2020), Hanham (24 Jan, retd 2020), Cameron of Lochbroom (28 Jan, retd 2016), Elis-Thomas (7 Feb), Howarth of Breckland (23 Mar), Kalms (30 Mar, excl 2024), Etherton (6 May), Freeman (2 June, retd 2020), Lipsey (1 July), Tebbit (7 July, retd 2022), Blair of Boughton (9 July), Marlesford (13 July), Alliance (18 July, retd March 2025), Desai (29 July), Sawyer (3 Aug), Paul (21 Aug), Boswell of Aynho (30 Aug, retd July 2025), Howarth of Newport (10 Sep), Guthrie of Craigiebank (18 Sep, retd 2020), Campbell of Pittenweem (26 Sep), Howells of St Davids (14 Oct, retd 2019), Taverne (25 Oct, retd March 2025), Newlove (11 Nov), Maxton (20 Nov, retd May 2025), Higgins (25 Nov, retd 2019)

BARONETS
Earle (1 Jan), Studd (20 Jan), Dunning (28 Jan, EXTINCT), Armytage (2 Feb), Legard (4 Feb), Spencer-Nairn (13 Feb), Stephenson (15 Feb), Page Wood (3 Mar), Clifford (31 Mar, EXTINCT), Ogilvy-Wedderburn (9 Apr), Lynch-Robinson (30 Apr), Seton [1663] (13 June), Watson [1866] (21 June), Hall [1687] (22 June), Seton [1683] (20 July), Green-Price (3 Aug), Heathcote [1733, of London] (29 Aug), Honywood (18 Sep), Thomas [1919] (5 Nov), Levinge (8 Nov), Carden [1887] (5 Dec, EXTINCT), Gibson-Craig-Carmichael (13 Dec)

Joint LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAINS deceased
James Gustavus HAMILTON-RUSSELL, son of Lady Diana LEGGE. Born 11 September 1938. DIED 5 February. Succeeded in his 1/100th share by his eldest son Mark John Gustavus HAMILTON-RUSSELL.

TITLES EXTINCT
Dunning baronets (1930)
Viscount Craigavon (1927) & Craig baronetcy (1918)
Clifford baronets (1887)
Carden baronets of Wimpole Street and Molesey (1887)

TITLES WITHOUT HEIRS
Baron St Helens (on death of 2nd Baron)
Earl of Craven (on death of Rupert Craven)
Baron Rathcavan (on death of 3rd Baron)
Baron Brain (on death of 3rd Baron)
Lynch-Robinson baronets (on death of 4th baronet)

CENTENARIANS DECEASED
June Rose OPITZ (nee ROWLEY), born 16 June 1924, of the ROWLEY baronets. DIED circa March / April 2025 (exact date not known, obit 23 April), aged 100.
Jane, Lady PORTAL (Jane Mary nee WILLIAMS), born 13 September 1924, 2nd wife of Sir Francis PORTAL, 5th Baronet. DIED 1 April, aged 00.
Mary Violet BUXTON (nee BUXTON), born 11 July 1924, of the BUXTON baronets (a gt-gt gd of the 1st bt), she also m a gs of the 3rd bt. DIED 22 May, aged 100.
Walter Edward Browning GODSAL, born 3 December 1924, married a scion of the CHARLEMONT viscounts. DIED 15 July, aged 100.
Ursula Elspeth MALLOCH BROWN (nee PELLY), born 31 August 1921, of the PELLY baronets, and mother of Baron MALLOCH-BROWN (LP). DIED 1 August, aged 103.
Hugh Richard LANGRISHE, born 8 January 1923, of the LANGRISHE baronets. DIED 25 November, aged 102.
Patricia Jocelyn McCARTER (nee ST JOHN), born 10 August 1922, of the ST JOHN OF BLETSO barons. DIED 28 November, aged 103.

DEATHS OF HEIRS
Hon James Robert NAPIER, ha to the Baron NAPIER OF MAGDALA. DIED 3 January
Richard Anthony Henry PELHAM, hp to the Earl of CHICHESTER. DIED 7 March
David Michael Ralph NEVILL, hp to the Earl of ABERGAVENNY (held by the 6th Marquess of ABERGAVENNY). DIED 20 March
Rupert Jose Evelyn CRAVEN, hp to the Earl of CRAVEN. DIED 11 May
Oliver DYER-BENNET, hp to the DYER-BENNET baronetcy. DIED bef 27 Feb 2025

BIRTHS OF HEIRS
Lord FAIRFAX OF CAMERON - Ferdinando Edward Nicholas FAIRFAX, born 29 March, ha's ha
BROOKE baronets - Bertie Charles Alister Weston Brooke, born 19 April, hp's ha
NORTH baronets - Bruno William Henry, born 24 April, ha's ha
Earl of MANSFIELD & MANSFIELD - Hon Alexander Peter Balvaird MURRAY, born 27 May, ha's ha
Earl of PORTSMOUTH - OLIVER HENRY RUFUS Wallop, born 12 June, ha's ha
Duke of LEINSTER - Hector John FITZGERALD, born 20 September, hp's ha

[marquess]

Barony of Rathcavan, it has been established that the new title holder has 2 sons who are in remainder. 

[Henry W]

Thank you marquess - I should acknowledge I took part in the discovery of those sons!  My feeble excuse is that I listed the death and no heirs in my notes, and then set about trying to find an heir, was successful and didn't update my notes!

[Henry W]

A couple of updates:

DEATHS OF HEIRS

Oliver DYER-BENNET, hp to the DYER-BENNET baronetcy. DIED bef 27 Feb 2025

It is now established that he died in 2024.  I have updated the google doc version to include his death in that year.

BIRTHS OF HEIRS

Earl of PORTSMOUTH - OLIVER HENRY RUFUS Wallop, born 12 June, ha's ha

I have given the name of the new heir's father (Viscount Lymington)

This line should read:

Earl of PORTSMOUTH - Hon Arthur Oliver Henry WALLOP, born 12 June, ha's ha

On Friday, 2 January 2026 at 10:17:33 UTC BREMENMURRAY wrote:

Curious pattern in 2025 with no hereditary peerages changing hands in July,August and December but five within two weeks in November!

Also as we enter the seventh year of the decade no non royal Dukedoms since 2019.

[BREMENMURRAY]

Curious pattern in 2025 with no hereditary peerages changing hands in July,August,October and December but five within two weeks in November. 

As we enter the seventh year of the decade no non royal Dukedoms since 2019.

Interestingly 2019 had the lowest number of hereditary peerage deaths in recent times with just eleven whist the highest twenty eight in 2023.

[Henry W]

Bremen,

Please see: Peerage deaths by year/month and Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births (Google Docs)

I have the deaths as 30 in 2023 [29 if you don't count the disclaimed Earl of Selkirk] and 13 in 2019.  Quite often deaths come to light some time after the event and I don't necessarily note them on the relevant thread here, but I do keep the above documents up to date.

[BREMENMURRAY]

In both years there were late December deaths not included on the original lists

[Henry W]

Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births (Google Docs) has now been updated with all 2025 events that I am aware of.  I will add directly to the Google Doc if further events come to our attention.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Thanks, Henry.

Can't believe it's already now  9 years since you started this very worthwhile project!

Brooke

[BREMENMURRAY]

Very curious patterns over these nine years.Two non royal Dukes succeeded within just over a fortnight in 2017,then just one more in August 2019 and none at all since!

[gorgo...@gmail.com]

 Sir Jamie McGrigor, 6th Bt died on 20 July 2025.

[Henry W]

Thank you - Google Doc version updated