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Barony of Henley
Blazon Arms: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules, on a chevron argent between three garbs or banded vert as many escallops sable (Eden); Azure, a lion rampant argent ducally crowned or a bordure of the second charged with eight torteaux (Henley). Crests: A dexter arm in armour couped at the shoulder proper and grasping a garb or. Supporters: Dexter: A lion argent semée of torteaux ducally crowned or having a plain collar or rimmed azure on the collar three escallops sable and pendant therefrom a shield or charged with an eagle displayed with two heads sable; Sinister: A stag argent semée of torteaux, attired or gorged with a plain collar or rimmed azure on the collar three escallops sable and pendant therefrom a shield or charged with an eagle displayed with one head sable.
Creation date	9 Nov 1799
Creation	Second
Created by	King George III
Peerage	Peerage of Ireland
First holder	Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley
Present holder	Oliver Michael Robert Eden, 8th Baron Henley, 6th Baron Northington
Heir apparent	Hon. John Michael Oliver Eden
Subsidiary titles	Baron Northington
Seat(s)	Scaleby Castle
Motto	SI SIT PRUDENTIA If there be prudence

Baron Henley is a title that has been created twice: first in the Peerage of Great Britain and then in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1760 in favour of Sir Robert Henley, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, when he was created Lord Henley, Baron of Grainge, in the County of Southampton. In 1764 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Northington. On the death of his son, the second Earl, both titles became extinct. Lady Elizabeth Henley, youngest daughter of the first Earl and co-heiress of the second Earl, married the diplomat Morton Eden. In 1799, the Henley title was revived when Eden was created Baron Henley, of Chardstock in the County of Dorset, in the Peerage of Ireland. Their son, the second Baron, assumed the surname of Henley in lieu of Eden and notably published a biography of his maternal grandfather. His son, the third Baron, sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Northampton. In 1885 the Northington title was also revived when he was created Baron Northington, of Watford in the County of Northampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave the Barons an automatic seat in the House of Lords. The fourth baron Frederick Henley was an educated man who served as JP in Northamptonshire and married Augusta, daughter of Herbert Langham 12th baronet.

His younger son, the sixth Baron, resumed the surname of Eden in 1925, the same year he succeeded his half-brother in the titles. As of 2019 the peerages are held by his grandson, the eighth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1977. He is a Conservative politician and served in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron. Lord Henley is now one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

The Barons Henley are members of the prominent Eden family. The first Baron was the fifth son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet, of West Auckland, and the younger brother of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland. Their elder brother Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (second son of the third Baronet of West Auckland), was the great-great-grandfather of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, and the great-great-great-grandfather of the Conservative politician John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton.

The family seat is Scaleby Castle, near Carlisle, Cumbria.

Barons Henley, first creation (1760)

• Robert Henley, 1st Baron Henley (1708–1772) (created Earl of Northington in 1764)

Earls of Northington (1764)

• Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington (1708–1772)
• Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington (1747–1786)

Barons Henley, second creation (1799)

• Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley (1752–1830)
• Robert Henley Henley, 2nd Baron Henley (1789–1841)
• Anthony Henley Henley, 3rd Baron Henley (1825–1898) (created Baron Northington in 1885)
• Frederick Henley Henley, 4th Baron Henley, 2nd Baron Northington (1849–1923)
• Anthony Ernest Henley Henley, 5th Baron Henley, 3rd Baron Northington (1858–1925)
• Francis Robert Eden, 6th Baron Henley, 4th Baron Northington (1877–1962)
• Michael Francis Eden, 7th Baron Henley, 5th Baron Northington (1914–1977)
• Oliver Michael Robert Eden, 8th Baron Henley, 6th Baron Northington (born 1953)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. John Michael Oliver Eden (born 1988).

Male-line family tree

See also

• Earl of Avon
• Baron Auckland
• Eden baronets

Notes

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1. Arms of Bertie: Argent, three battering rams proper armed and garnished azure
2. "No. 9986". The London Gazette. 29 March 1760. p. 1.
3. "No. 10418". The London Gazette. 19 May 1764. p. 4.
4. "No. 25486". The London Gazette. 3 July 1885. p. 3060.
5. ^ Hesilrige 1921, p. 465.

References

• Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 465.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Kidd, Charles (1903). Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 465.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• www.edendiaries.co.uk

v t e Extant baronies in the Peerage of Ireland
Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant
Lordship of Ireland	Kingsale Dunsany Dunboyne Louth
Kingdom of Ireland	Inchiquin Digby^* Carbery Aylmer Farnham Lisle Newborough Macdonald Kensington^• Massy Muskerry Sheffield^• Auckland^* Kilmaine Waterpark Graves Huntingfield Carrington^* Rossmore^• Hotham Crofton ffrench Henley^• Langford Dufferin and Claneboye Henniker^• Ventry Dunalley Clanmorris Ashtown
United Kingdom	Rendlesham Castlemaine Decies Garvagh Talbot of Malahide Carew^• Oranmore and Browne^• Bellew Fermoy Rathdonnell
^* Also a Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain  ^• Also a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

v t e Extant hereditary baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
King George III	Ellenborough Manners
The Prince Regent	Churchill Harris
King George IV	Ravensworth Delamere Forester Rayleigh Gifford Feversham Seaford Plunket Heytesbury Skelmersdale Wynford
King William IV	Kilmarnock Poltimore Mostyn de Saumarez Denman Abinger Ashburton Hatherton Stratheden Lovat^*
Queen Victoria	Rossmore^• Carew^• de Mauley Wrottesley Sudeley Methuen Stanley of Alderley^• Leigh Monteagle of Brandon Campbell Vivian Congleton Eddisbury^• Londesborough de Freyne Raglan Belper Chesham Churston Leconfield Lyveden Brougham and Vaux Westbury Annaly Northbrook Hartismere^• Hylton Penrhyn O'Neill Napier of Magdala Dunning^* Acton Wolverton O'Hagan Sandhurst Ettrick^* Aberdare Moncreiff Coleridge Cottesloe Hampton Harlech Tollemache Gerard Sackville Norton Trevor Ampthill Derwent Hothfield Tennyson Strathspey Monk Bretton Northbourne Northington^• Rothschild Revelstoke Monkswell Ashbourne St Oswald Montagu of Beaulieu Elphinstone^* Hindlip Grimthorpe Kensington^• Hamilton of Dalzell St Levan Basing de Ramsey Addington Savile Ashcombe Crawshaw Amherst of Hackney Newton Dunleath Swansea Aldenham HolmPatrick Burton Glanusk Cranworth Avebury Killanin Strathcona and Mount Royal
King Edward VII	Kinross Shuttleworth Grenfell Redesdale Burnham Biddulph Ritchie of Dundee Hemphill Joicey Nunburnholme Swaythling Blyth Marchamley Gorell Fisher Kilbracken
King George V	Hardinge of Penshurst de Villiers Glenconner Aberconway Merthyr Rowallan Ashton of Hyde Ravensdale Hollenden Parmoor Cunliffe Wrenbury Faringdon Shaughnessy Rathcreedan Somerleyton Carnock Beaverbrook Gainford Forteviot Colwyn Gisborough Morris Cawley Terrington Glenarthur Phillimore Inverforth Sinha Cochrane of Cults Clwyd Russell of Liverpool Swinfen Meston Cullen of Ashbourne Trevethin Glendyne Manton Forres Vestey Borwick Maclay Bethell Hunsdon Darling Banbury of Southam Merrivale Bradbury Mereworth^• Greenway Hayter Cornwallis Daresbury Wraxall Remnant Moynihan Craigmyle Dulverton Luke Alvingham Baden-Powell Ponsonby of Shulbrede Dickinson Noel-Buxton Howard of Penrith Rochester Selsdon Moyne Davies Rankeillour Brocket Milne Rennell Mottistone Iliffe Palmer Rockley Elton Wakehurst Hesketh Tweedsmuir Wigram Riverdale May Kennet Strathcarron
King Edward VIII	Catto
King George VI	Windlesham Mancroft McGowan Denham Rea Cadman Kenilworth Pender Roborough Brassey of Apethorpe Stamp Bicester Milford Hankey Harmsworth Rotherwick Glentoran Tryon Croft Teviot Nathan Reith Kindersley Ironside Latham Wedgwood Geddes Bruntisfield Brabazon of Tara Keyes Hemingford Moran Killearn Dowding Gretton Westwood Hazlerigg Hacking Chetwode Sandford Altrincham Broadbridge Mountevans Lindsay of Birker Piercy Chorley Calverley Tedder Colgrain Darwen Lucas of Chilworth Shepherd Newall Oaksey Rugby Layton Simon of Wythenshawe Kershaw Trefgarne Crook Amwell Milverton Clydesmuir Burden Haden-Guest Silkin§ Hives Ogmore Morris of Kenwood Macpherson of Drumochter Kenswood Freyberg Milner of Leeds Kirkwood Wise
Queen Elizabeth II	Jeffreys Rathcavan Baillieu Grantchester Coleraine Harvey of Tasburgh Gridley Strathalmond Strathclyde Clitheroe McNair Colyton Astor of Hever Sinclair of Cleeve Bridges Norrie Birkett Harding of Petherton Poole Rootes Netherthorpe Crathorne Spens MacAndrew Nelson of Stafford Howick of Glendale Sanderson of Ayot Cobbold Robertson of Oakridge Marks of Broughton Fairhaven Leighton of St Mellons Brain Aldington Inchyra Silsoe Egremont Thomson of Fleet Martonmere Sherfield Inglewood Glendevon Grimston of Westbury Renwick St Helens Margadale
§: Disclaimed.  Italics: This title is held by a peer who holds another of higher precedence. ^* Also a Lord in the Peerage of Scotland  ^• Also a Baron in the Peerage of Ireland

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