Baron Chorley, of Kendal in the County of Westmorland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 November 1945 for the barrister, academic and Labour politician, Robert Chorley.[1] He was Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of Commercial and Industrial Law at the University of London from 1930 to 1946 and served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1946 to 1950 in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee. The second Baron, who succeeded his father in 1978, was one of the ninety elected hereditary peers elected remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999, where he sat as a cross-bencher. As of 2016 the title is held by his son.

Barons Chorley (1945)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. Patrick Chorley (b. 2000).

Arms

Coat of arms of Baron Chorley
Crest
In front of two torches in saltire Or and inflamed a teazle stalked and leaved Proper.
Escutcheon
Per chevron Argent and Vert in chief two bluebottles Proper and in base a fountain.
Supporters
On either side a buzzard Proper.
Motto
Propositi Tenax (Tenacious of Purpose)[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "No. 37354". The London Gazette. 16 November 1945. p. 5604.
  2. ↑ "Chorley, 3rd Baron, (Nicholas Rupert Debenham Chorley) (born 15 July 1966)". Who's Who. Oxford University Press. 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286934. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  3. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019.

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

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