ROSSMORE, Rt Hon 7th Baron 1931-2021

[Richard R]

He was s of 6th Baron ROSSMORE 1892-1958 and Dolores Cecil d 1981 d of Lt-Col James Alban WILSON DSO of West Burton, Yorks. He m 1982 (div __) Valerie Marion b 1950 reg Q2 Mid Glam. d of Brian TOBIN, and had a son who succeeds him.

BENEDICT WILLIAM Westenra b 6 Mar 1983 [8th Baron (I) & 7th Baron (UK) ROSSMORE] has yet to establish his claim and appear on The Peerage Roll, unmarried

There are no heirs to this title

Obit in the Times of 6 May 2021:

EXTRACT
Lord Rossmore obituary
Aristocratic photographer and aesthete who found himself in a high-profile love triangle with Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger
On the day the hunger striker Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison at the height of the Troubles in 1981, Paddy Rossmore’s house in Co Monaghan was burnt down by the IRA.
With his baronial title dating back seven generations, Rossmore represented to the Republicans the hated Anglo-Irish nobility whom they accused of having buttressed British oppression of Irish nationalism for centuries. While it may have been true of some of Rossmore’s forebears, who arrived in Ulster from Holland with William of Orange, the seventh baron was cut from cloth of a distinctly more anti-establishment stripe.
...In 1982 he married Valerie (née Tobin). The marriage ended in divorce. He is survived by their son, Benedict William Westenra, a music arranger and piano teacher whose pupils have included Sir Lenny Henry, and by his stepdaughter Charlotte Westenra, a theatre producer.
Paddy Rossmore was born William Warner Westenra in Rossmore Castle, Co Monaghan, in 1931, the son of Dolores (née Wilson) and William Westenra, the 6th Baron Rossmore, who had succeeded to the title a decade earlier. The Westenras were an old Dutch family who came from near the Hague and had inherited the Rossmore title via marriage into the family of Robert Cunninghame, a soldier who was created the first Baron by George III, and died without a son.
...He succeeded as the 7th Baron Rossmore on the death of his father in 1958. The Gothic castle which had been the family seat since 1827 was abandoned after the Second World War because of dry rot, and the family moved into the dower house within the estate grounds. [which they sold] and in 1962 they took up residency in the gamekeeper’s lodge. Antiques from the original castle were also sold off, causing [...] the Daily Express [to mock] his folly in parting with an 18th-century German marquetry table for £205, which was sold on two months later for £6,000.
The castle was demolished in the mid-1970s after falling into disrepair. Rossmore lived in the lodge on his estate until the IRA burnt it down. After selling the estate he spent his final years living in London.
Lord (Paddy) Rossmore, photographer, was born on February 14, 1931. He died in his sleep on May 4, 2021, aged 90
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-rossmore-obituary-60trp6lxd

He was s of 6th Baron ROSSMORE 1892-1958 and Dolores Cecil d 1981 d of Lt-Col James Alban WILSON DSO of West Burton, Yorks. He m 1982 (div __) Valerie Marion b 1950 reg Q2 Mid Glam. d of Brian TOBIN, and had a son who succeeds him.

BENEDICT WILLIAM Westenra b 6 Mar 1983 [8th Baron (I) & 7th Baron (UK) ROSSMORE] has yet to establish his claim and appear on The Peerage Roll, unmarried

There are no heirs to this title

[marquess]

This has been on the likely to be extinct list for sometime, 38 is  not to late to be married and produce an heir.

[sven_me...@web.de]

How active was he in the Lords? Hansard has no spoken contributions by him and in the 97/98 he was on leave of absence.

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

Unusual Letters patent from the 1st Baron, to his wife's nephew.

[David Beamish]

The 7th Baron never spoke in the House of Lords - see https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=2114&type=Spoken

He did take his seat, on 7 June 1961: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1961-06-07/debates/f2b288fd-2768-451d-b86a-68df89207cf3/LordFisherOfLambeth

[sven_me...@web.de]

From 2016 to 2021 says nothing because he left the House in 1999.

[David Beamish]

The web page in question defaults to a search start date 5 years ago. Change it to a date before 1961 and you will get the same result.

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[John B-H]

It seems that the search omits many speeches.

For example, it gives only four speeches (perhaps the four last ones) of the 6th Lord Carrington, who was a very active member and a frontbencher during many decades:  https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?endDate=2018-07-09&memberId=3295&outputType=List&partial=False&startDate=1941-04-04&type=Spoken

[David Beamish]

Thank you. It looks as if the new Hansard search facility is defective: the previous experimental system shows (http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-peter-carington) 4734 contributions by Lord Carrington from 1946 to 1999.
I have an April 1999 copy of a printed booklet (produced by the House of Lords Journal Office) listing the then current members, which confirms that Lord Rossmore had not made a maiden speech.

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[colinp]

From the House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings 21 March 2022:

Barony of Rossmore in the Peerage of Ireland  The Lord Chancellor reported that Benedict William Westenra had established his claim to the Barony of Rossmore in the Peerage of Ireland.

Barony of Rossmore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom  The Lord Chancellor reported that Benedict William Westenra had established his claim to the Barony of Rossmore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Clerk of the Parliaments was accordingly directed to enter Lord Rossmore on the register of hereditary peers maintained under Standing Order 9(4).