Baron Graves, of Gravesend in the
County of Londonderry, is a title in the
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisi ...
.
It was created on 24 October 1794 for the naval commander Admiral
Thomas Graves. He was second in command at the
Battle of the Glorious First of June
The Glorious First of June (1 June 1794), also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, (known in France as the or ) was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic ...
in 1794. His son, the second Baron, represented
Okehampton
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,
Windsor
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and
Milborne Port
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The vil ...
. He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron. This line of the family failed on the death of his son, the fourth Baron, in 1904.
The fourth Baron was succeeded by his first cousin, the son of the Hon.
Henry Richard Graves, third son of the second Baron. On the death of his own son and only male heir, this line of the family also failed.
The sixth Baron was succeeded by his first cousin, the son of Claude Thomas Graves, third son of the Hon. Henry Richard Graves, third son of the second Baron. His son, the eighth Baron, was an actor (as ''Peter Graves''). When the eighth Baron died in 1994, this line of the family also failed. He was succeeded by his second cousin, the ninth Baron, the grandson of the Hon. Adolphus Edward Paget Graves, fifth son of the Hon. Henry Richard Graves, third son of the second Baron. the title is held by his son, the tenth Baron, who succeeded in 2002, and who, like his father, also lives in
Australia
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.
Barons Graves (1794)
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Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, KB (23 October 1725 – 9 February 1802) was a British officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial official. He served in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. He was also the Commodor ...
(1725–1802)
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Thomas North Graves, 2nd Baron Graves (1775–1830)
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William Thomas Graves, 3rd Baron Graves (1804–1870)
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Clarence Edward Graves, 4th Baron Graves (1847–1904)
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Henry Cyril Percy Graves, 5th Baron Graves (1847–1914)
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Clarence Percy Rivers Graves, 6th Baron Graves (1871–1937)
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Henry Algernon Claude Graves, 7th Baron Graves (1877–1963)
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Peter George Wellesley Graves, 8th Baron Graves (1911–1994)
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Evelyn Paget Graves, 9th Baron Graves
Evelyn Paget Graves, 9th Baron Graves (17 May 1926 – 6 December 2002), was an Australian farmer and peer.
Graves was born in Tasmania, Australia, and worked as a farmer. In 1994 he succeeded his second cousin as ninth Baron Graves. However, as t ...
(1926–2002)
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Timothy Evelyn Graves, 10th Baron Graves (born 1960)
There is no heir to the barony.
References
Sources
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* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Baronies in the Peerage of Ireland
Noble titles created in 1794
1794 establishments in Ireland