Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births 2024

[Henry W]

 This follows: Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births, 2023 (Peerage News Group)

6 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 spent most of today going through the many threads that have received posts this year!  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
Ailesbury (12 May), Lothian (1 Oct, see LP Kerr of Monteviot)

EARLS
Rosebery (30 June), Portarlington (6 Oct)

VISCOUNTS
Massereene & Ferrard (13 Nov)

BARONS, suo jure BARONESSES and LADIES OF PARLIAMENT
Trimlestown (10 Jan, DORMANT), Saye and Sele (20 Jan, see Centenarians deceased), Davies (7 Feb), Rothschild (26 Feb), Holmpatrick (21 Mar), Clinton (2 Apr), Hindlip (5 June), Dudley (20 June), Howard de Walden (13 July), Colwyn (4 Aug), Wakehurst (22 Aug), Saltoun (3 Sep, retd 2014), Selsdon (15 Sep, removed 2021), Delamere (7 Oct), Carew (18 Dec)

LIFE PEERS & LAW LIFE PEERS
Bhatia (12 Jan, removed 2023), Tomlinson (20 Jan), Flather (6 Feb), Cormack (25 Feb), Henig (29 Feb), McAvoy (8 Mar), Hoyle (6 Apr, retd 2023), Rosser (10 Apr), Gardner of Parks (14 Apr), Massey of Darwen (20 Apr), Field of Birkenhead (23 Apr), Stunnell (29 Apr), Fellowes (29 July), Kerr of Monteviot (1 Oct, see Marquesses), Ouseley (2 Oct, retd 2019), Leitch (4 Oct), Harrison (18 Oct, retd 2022), Hanningfield (20 Oct), Renwick of Clifton (4 Nov, retd 2018), Prescott (20 Nov, removed July 2024), Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (24 Nov, retd 2021), Wilkins (1 Dec, retd 2015), Lloyd of Berwick (8 Dec, LAW, retd 2015)

BARONETS
Goring (1 Jan), Conant (10 Jan, see Centenarians deceased), Baird [1695] (18 Feb), Walker-Smith (9 Mar), Garthwaite (23 Mar), Batho (6 Apr), Stuart-Forbes (17 Apr), Hill [1779] (8 May), Sutherland (11 May), Milne-Watson (20 June), Salt [1869] (12 June), Stewart [1623] (20 June), Orr-Ewing [1963] (6 Aug), Biddulph (28 Aug), Evans-Bevan (5 Nov), Furness (20 Nov), Carew Pole (1 Dec)

CENTENARIANS DECEASED
Sir John Ernest Michael CONANT, 2nd Baronet, born 24 April 1923. DIED 10 January 2024
Nathaniel Thomas Allen FIENNES, 21st Baron Saye and Sele, born 22 September 1920. DIED 20 January 2024
Jeanne Elizabeth HORSFALL (nee SMITH), born 1923/4.  Wife of Donald Fawcett HORSFALL, son of Sir John HORSFALL, 2nd Baronet.  DIED 28 January 2024. Aged 100
Noel John PARKER-JERVIS, born 25 December 1920, of the ST VINCENT viscounts. DIED 1 September 2024. Aged 103.

TITLES DORMANT
Baron Trimlestown (no known heirs)

HEIRS DECEASED
John Richard PUREY-CUST, hp to Baron BROWNLOW.  Died 23 January.
Christopher Wynne NEWTON, hp to NEWTON baronets [1900]. Died 8 August.
Hon David Edward Hugh BIGHAM, hp to Viscount MERSEY. Died 24 August.
Jonathan Every COUPER, hp to COUPER baronets. Died 10 September.
Peter Ritson HOLDEN, hp to HOLDEN baronets. Died 10 September.
Charles Weston BROOKE, hp to BROOKE baronets [1919]. Died 6 October.
John Andrew Bruce SAVILE, Viscount POLLINGTON, ha to Earl of MEXBOROUGH. Died 23 October
Hon Michael SPRING RICE, hp to Baron MONTEAGLE OF BRANDON. Died 11 November.
David Petroc LYCETT GREEN, ha to hp to GREEN baronets. Died 11 November.

TITLES WITHOUT HEIRS
Baron BROWNLOW [A* 1974]

BIRTHS of ha, ha's ha, or a senior position in the next generation
Baron CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIGH - Hon Charles Alexander Nicholas CLIFFORD, born 12 January, ha's ha.
Duke of ROXBURGHE - Frederick Charles Ian INNES-KER, Marquess of Bowmont, born 28 February. Heir Apparent.
Baron HIVES - Hon Henry Peter David HIVES, born 9 March. Heir Apparent.
Earl of BRADFORD - Hon Archibald (Archie) Henry Orlando BRIDGEMAN, born 19 March, ha's ha.
JESSEL baronets - Jonathan (Jonny) Charles Albert Jessel, born 7 April, 4th in line.
Duke of ATHOLL - Finley Nicholas George MURRAY, born 26 April, 3rd in line.
Earl of ERROLL - Hon Mungo Louis Merlin HAY, born 1 May, ha's ha.
Marquess of DONEGAL - Hon Sebastian Claud Spencer CHICHESTER, born 7 June, 2nd son of ha.
Viscount MONCKTON OF BRENCHLEY - Sebastian Walter MONCKTON, born 28 August, ha to the ha of the hp.
PORTAL baronets - Albert Ian Barnaby Portal, born 8 September, 3rd in line.
Baron ST LEVANS - William Piers Tyser ST AUBYN, born 21 October, 4th in line.
Baron NORREYS OF RYCOTE (subsidiary title of Earl of LINDSEY & Abingdon) - Matilda BERTIE, born 21 October, heiress presumptive (1st child) of the ha of the ha.
Earl of HOME - Leo Gregory Cospatrick DOUGLAS-HOME, Lord Dunglass, date unknown. Heir Apparent.

[gorgo...@gmail.com]

Sir Thomas Henry Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington 14th Bt, died on 17th December 2024.

[pyvery]

Baron Clifford of Chudleigh the grandson is not an Hon

[Henry W]

Thanks for both of these - I have added them to my offline document, which will makes it way to the Google Doc some time in the new year.  I should also have noted Baron COLWYN retired from the Lords in 2022.

Worth pointing out that we only have 18 baronets dying so far in 2024 (though perhaps I should not tempt fate for the last few days?).  On 8 Jan 2024 I remarked that we only had 19 baronet deaths in 2023, but subsequent discoveries mean that there were in fact 25 (that we know of).  18 would be a recent low in deaths.  21 is the current "record" from 2020 (my records are 2017 onwards)

[BREMENMURRAY]

At the conclusion of the first five years of the 2020s  no non royal Dukedoms  have changed hands.This is the first time for at least two hundred years that the first five years of a decade have not produced at least one newly inherited Duke 

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Thanks, BREMENMURRAY, for a very interesting fact.

Looking at the 2025 ages of all Dukes, except Cornwall and Edinburgh (the latter being a life dukedom), one finds the following:

90 and over: Abercorn (91), Kent  and Montrose (90).

80 and over: St. Albans (86) Sutherland (85), Devonshire and Gloucester (81) and Wellington (80)

70 and over: Leinster (77), Beaufort and Somerset (73), Buccleuch (71) and Richmond and Marlborough (70).

60 and over: Norfolk and Northumberland (69), Rutland (66), Atholl and York (65), Fife (64), Bedford and Manchester (63)

50 and older: Argyll (57)

40 and older: Grafton and Hamilton (47), Roxborough (44) and Sussex (41)

30 and older: Westminster (34)

Brooke

[malcolm davies]

Bremen,

              This simply reflects increased life expectancy.It still may be another year or two before their is a ducal succession-but then I suspect there will be a number in quick succession.

  Brooke,your list reflects the ages of Dukes at the end of next year,not now.Somerset turned 72 only4 days ago.Norfolk turned 68 in December.

  Note that at this time next year,assuming no deaths,there will be 3 dukes over 90,the first time this has happened(we almost had this in 2011,but the 11th Duke of Grafton died 2 months before the Duke of Edinburgh turned 90).

[BREMENMURRAY]

Suppose it also reflects that in the decade 2010-2019 ten succeeded. 

[malcolm davies]

Bremen,

               Some further context.

  I couldn’t access the life tables for life expectancy at birth prior to 1955.

  But from 1955 the life expectancy at birth has increased as follows:

  1955. 69

  1965  72

  1975. 74

  1985. 75

  1995. 77

  2005. 78

  2015. 80

  Putting it bluntly,all those peers born prior to 1955 should have died-so that accounts for 12 dukes for a start,not to mention  other peers of lower degree.

  As I am approaching my 72nd birthday I am not distressed by this at all.

[BREMENMURRAY]

It is worth noting that Dukes have a longer life expectancy than the general population. Probably because they do not have to endure NHS waiting lists and jump through hoops to get a doctors appointment.Of the eight deceased in the 1950s the average age was 72 against 69 in general 

[Henry W]

BARONETS

Feilden (20 Sep)

[Henry W]

Google Documents updated:  Peerage & Baronetage deaths & births and Peerage deaths by year/month

It would appear, as things stand, that 2024 was one of the quieter years for deaths amongst hereditary titles - a total of 39 hereditary peers & baronets.

This is close to the recent low of 38 (2019).  The recent high was 55 in 2023, so it perhaps not surprising that this was followed by a quieter year.

19 is the lowest number of baronet deaths recorded.  The previous low was 21 in 2020.  As stated previously, it would be normal for more deaths of baronets to come to light.

[BREMENMURRAY]

Thanks for compiling these annual lists. With the demise of Whitakers Almanac it is fine to have all this information in one place

[BREMENMURRAY]

Perhaps the seventh Earl Grey should be added to the 2023 list even though it was not known to this group until 2024