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...s }}'''William Thomson''' (June 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907), later Baron Kelvin of Largs, was a [[Great Britain|British]] scientist who developed th

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Sir '''Edward Herbert''', 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648), was an English diplomat, writer and philos ...led in 1624. [[Charles I]] first gave him an Irish peerage, then made him Baron Herbert of Cherbury. As the [[English Civil War]] developed, Herbert, thou

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In 1797 he entered the peerage of Great Britain, being created Baron Wellesley.<ref name=historyofparliamentonlineRichardWellesley/> | quote = ...took name of Wellesley 1789; cr. Baron Wellesley [GB] 20 Oct. 1797; Marquess Wellesley [I] 2 Dec. 1799; K.G. 3 Mar

...Mores tried to build a meat-packing empire, with the help of the wealthy [[Baron von Hoffman]], in North Dakota, where he built houses, business, a Catholic

{{r|Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton}}

| title = heir to the hereditary title [[Baron Rothschild]] Rothschild is the heir to the hereditary title [[Baron Rothschild]].

*Rocha, Guy Louis. “Reno’s First Robber Baron,” ''Nevada Magazine'' 40,2(March-April, 1980), pp. 28-29, 62.

...ngton]], and, four years prior to the Act of Union, in 1787, was created [[Baron Wellesley]] in the peerage of Great Britain. A Baronage is the most junior | quote = ...took name of Wellesley 1789; cr. Baron Wellesley [GB] 20 Oct. 1797; Marquess Wellesley [I] 2 Dec. 1799; K.G. 3 Mar

'''Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff''', KG, PC (27 March 1912 - 26 March 2005) was [[prime ...ed an MP for some years before being elevated to the [[House of Lords]] as Baron Callaghan of [[Cardiff]].

'''Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel''', KT, PC (2 July 1903 - 9 October 1995) was a [[prime ...e House of Lords when he accepted a [[life peerage]], and became known as 'Baron Home of the Hirsel' ([[The Hirsel]] being his family seat in [[Berwickshire

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Baron (posthumous) '''Nobuyoshi Muto''' was an [[Imperial Japanese Army]] officer | title = Muto, Nobuyoshi, Baron, Field Marshal

...s named after the Irish-born physicist and engineer [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]] (1824 – 1907), who wrote of the need for an absolute thermometri

*[[Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton]], painter and sculptor

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'''Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède at de Montesquieu''' (1689—1755) was a French writer and pol

...n than not, were either taken directly from, or were imitations of, the "[[Baron Munchausen]]" stories of Rudolf Erich Raspe. Other influences include the

...igher in the [[Order of Precedence]] than a [[Knight]], but lower than a [[Baron]]. Traditionally different from the five degrees of [[Peerage]] since a [[B