Baron Rennell, of Rodd in the
County of Hereford, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...
.
It was created in 1933 for the diplomat
Sir Rennell Rodd, previously
British Ambassador to Italy
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Italy is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Italian Republic, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Italy. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the ...
. His second but eldest surviving son, the second baron, served as president of the
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
from 1945 to 1948. He had no male issue and was succeeded by his nephew, the third baron. He was the only surviving son of Commander the Hon. Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, youngest son of the first baron.
The third baron was a Scottish international
rugby player. the title is held by his son, the fourth baron, who succeeded in 2006.
The first baron was the grandson of
Sir John Tremayne Rodd, a
vice-admiral in the
Royal Navy, and a great-grandson of the geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography,
James Rennell. The
Conservative politician and life peer the
Baroness Emmet of Amberley was the eldest daughter of the first baron.
Peter Rodd
Peter Murray Rennell Rodd (16 April 1904 – 17 July 1968),Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, volume 3, pg 3319 soldier, aid worker, film-maker and idler.
Early life
Rodd was the second son of Sir Rennell Rodd, a diplomat and politi ...
, husband of the writer
Nancy Mitford, was the third son of the first baron.
Barons Rennell (1933)
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(James) Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell (1858–1941)
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Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell (1895–1978)
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John Adrian Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell (1935–2006)
*James Roderick David Tremayne Rodd, 4th Baron Rennell (born 1978)
There is no heir to the barony.
Arms
Notes
References
*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 the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1933
Noble titles created for UK MPs