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Baron Haldon

Baron Haldon, of Haldon, in the County of Devon, was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 29 May 1880, for Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet and became extinct upon the death of the fifth baron in 1939. Haldon House was the family seat.

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Baron Haldon, of Haldon, in the County of Devon,1 was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 29 May 1880, for Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet and became extinct upon the death of the fifth baron in 1939. Haldon House was the family seat.

Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782)

Barons Haldon (1880–1939)

  • Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon (1818–1883)
  • Lawrence Hesketh Palk, 2nd Baron Haldon (1846–1903)
  • Lawrence William Palk, 3rd Baron Haldon (1869–1933)2
  • Lawrence Edward Broomfield Palk, 4th Baron Haldon (1896–1938)
  • Edward Arthur Palk, 5th Baron Haldon (1854–1939)

Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782), continued

  • Sir Wilmot Lawrence Launcelot Palk, 9th Baronet (1876–1945)
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  1. "No. 24838". The London Gazette. 27 April 1880. p. 2725.
  2. Hesilrige 1921, p. 432.

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