Barony of Henley
Blazon
  • Arms: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules, on a chevron argent between three garbs or banded vert as many escallops sable (Eden); Azure, a lion rampant argent ducally crowned or a bordure of the second charged with eight torteaux (Henley).
  • Crests: A dexter arm in armour couped at the shoulder proper and grasping a garb or.
  • Supporters: Dexter: A lion argent semée of torteaux ducally crowned or having a plain collar or rimmed azure on the collar three escallops sable and pendant therefrom a shield or charged with an eagle displayed with two heads sable; Sinister: A stag argent semée of torteaux, attired or gorged with a plain collar or rimmed azure on the collar three escallops sable and pendant therefrom a shield or charged with an eagle displayed with one head sable.
Creation date9 Nov 1799
CreationSecond
Created byKing George III
PeeragePeerage of Ireland
First holderMorton Eden, 1st Baron Henley
Present holderOliver Michael Robert Eden, 8th Baron Henley, 6th Baron Northington
Heir apparentHon. John Michael Oliver Eden
Subsidiary titlesBaron Northington
Seat(s)Scaleby Castle
MottoSI SIT PRUDENTIA
If there be prudence
Arms of Henley: Azure, a lion rampant argent ducally crowned or a bordure of the second charged with eight torteaux. Quartering Bertie.[1] Crest: A lion's head erased argent charged with hurts and ducally crowned or. Supporters: dexter: A lion argent semée of torteaux langued gules and ducally crowned or; sinister: A stag argent semée of torteaux attired and unguled or. motto: 'Sola et Unica Virtus ("Alone and unique is virtue")

Baron Henley is a title that has been created twice: first in the Peerage of Great Britain and then in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1760 in favour of Sir Robert Henley, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, when he was created Lord Henley, Baron of Grainge, in the County of Southampton.[2] In 1764 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Northington.[3] On the death of his son, the second Earl, both titles became extinct. Lady Elizabeth Henley, youngest daughter of the first Earl and co-heiress of the second Earl, married the diplomat Morton Eden. In 1799, the Henley title was revived when Eden was created Baron Henley, of Chardstock in the County of Dorset, in the Peerage of Ireland. Their son, the second Baron, assumed the surname of Henley in lieu of Eden and notably published a biography of his maternal grandfather. His son, the third Baron, sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Northampton. In 1885 the Northington title was also revived when he was created Baron Northington, of Watford in the County of Northampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[4] This title gave the Barons an automatic seat in the House of Lords. The fourth baron Frederick Henley was an educated man who served as JP in Northamptonshire and married Augusta, daughter of Herbert Langham 12th baronet.[5]

His younger son, the sixth Baron, resumed the surname of Eden in 1925, the same year he succeeded his half-brother in the titles. As of 2019 the peerages are held by his grandson, the eighth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1977. He is a Conservative politician and served in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron. Lord Henley is now one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

The Barons Henley are members of the prominent Eden family. The first Baron was the fifth son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet, of West Auckland, and the younger brother of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland. Their elder brother Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (second son of the third Baronet of West Auckland), was the great-great-grandfather of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, and the great-great-great-grandfather of the Conservative politician John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton.

The family seat is Scaleby Castle, near Carlisle, Cumbria.

Barons Henley, first creation (1760)

Earls of Northington (1764)

Barons Henley, second creation (1799)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. John Michael Oliver Eden (born 1988).

Male-line family tree

Male-line family tree, Barons Henley (both creations)
Anthony Henley
1667–1711
Baron Henley
(first creation)
Earl of Northington
Robert Henley
1st Earl of Northington
1708–1772
Baron Henley
(second creation)
Robert Henley
2nd Earl of Northington
1747–1786		Elizabeth Eden
Baroness Henley
(née Henley)
died 1821		Morton Eden
1st Baron Henley
1752–1830
Barony and
earldom extinct
Frederick Eden
1784–1823		Robert Henley
2nd Baron Henley
1789–1841
Baron Northington
Anthony Henley
3rd Baron Henley
1st Baron Northington
1825–1898
Frederick Henley
4th Baron Henley
2nd Baron Northington
1849–1923		Anthony Henley
5th Baron Henley
3rd Baron Northington
1858–1925		Brig. Gen. Hon.
Anthony Henley
1873–1925		Francis Eden
6th Baron Henley
4th Baron Northington
1877–1962
Michael Eden
7th Baron Henley
5th Baron Northington
1914–1977
Oliver Eden
8th Baron Henley
6th Baron Northington
born 1953
Hon.
John Eden
born 1988
The coat of arms for the Henley barony.[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Arms of Bertie: Argent, three battering rams proper armed and garnished azure
  2. ↑ "No. 9986". The London Gazette. 29 March 1760. p. 1.
  3. ↑ "No. 10418". The London Gazette. 19 May 1764. p. 4.
  4. ↑ "No. 25486". The London Gazette. 3 July 1885. p. 3060.
  5. 1 2 Hesilrige 1921, p. 465.

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