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in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the

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's surname and the title of the barony is pronounced .

History

The title was created in 1876 for John Tollemache, who had earlier represented Cheshire South and Cheshire West in the

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. He was the son of

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John Halliday (who in 1821 assumed by Royal licence the surname and arms of Tollemache in lieu of Halliday), eldest son of Lady Jane Halliday, youngest daughter of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart. The first Baron was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Cheshire West. On the death of his grandson, the third Baron, this line of the family failed, and the title passed to the late Baron's second cousin, the fourth Baron. He was the son of Major-General Edward Tollemache, son of the Hon. Hamilton James Tollemache, fourth son of the first Baron. , the title is held by the fourth Baron's son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 1975. He was Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 2003 to 2014. The actor

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is distantly related to the family, through his 11-times great-grandmother, Anne Tollemache, which he discovered during an episode of BBC's '' Who Do You Think You Are?''. The family seat is

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Helmingham Helmingham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 12 miles (20 km) east of Stowmarket, and 12 miles north (20 km) of Ipswich. It has a population of 170, increasing to 186 at the 2011 Census. It ...

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Barons Tollemache (1876)

John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache (; 5 December 1805 – 9 December 1890) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician, landowner and peer who owned large estates in Cheshire. He was raised to the peerage of the ...

(1805–1890) * Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache (1832–1904) **The Honourable Lyonel Plantagenet Tollemache (1860–1902) * Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache (1883–1955) *John Edward Hamilton Tollemache, 4th Baron Tollemache (1910–1975) * Timothy John Edward Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache (b. 1939) The

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is the present holder's elder son, the Hon. Edward John Hugh Tollemache (b. 1976).
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his elder son, Ralph Timothy Jack Tollemache (b. 2010).

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Cracroft's Peerage pageEuropean Heraldry page
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Barons Tollemache (1876)

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