Baron Rivers

Baron Rivers was a title that was created four times in British history, twice in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The coat of arms of the Barons Rivers (third creation).

History

The first creation came in 1299 when John Rivers was summoned to Parliament as Baron Rivers. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baron in circa 1340.

The second creation came in 1448 when Richard Woodville, father of Elizabeth Woodville (queen of England), received the title. It was later subsumed when Woodville became Earl Rivers in 1466. Both titles became extinct on the death of the third earl in 1491.

The third creation came in 1776 when George Pitt was made Baron Rivers, of Strathfield-Say in the County of Southampton, in the Peerage of Great Britain. He was a descendant of John Pitt (16th century), the father of Thomas Pitt, ancestor of the Earls of Londonderry, Barons Camelford and Earls of Chatham, and of Sir William Pitt, whose grandson George Pitt married the daughter of the 2nd Earl Rivers. George Pitt's eldest son and namesake was the aforementioned George Pitt, who was elevated to the peerage in 1776. In 1802 Lord Rivers was created Baron Rivers, of Sudeley Castle in the County of Gloucester, with remainder to 1) his brother General Sir William Augustus Pitt and the heirs male of his body, and 2) William Horace Beckford (son of Peter Beckford of Stapleton in Dorset by his wife the Honourable Louisa, daughter of Lord Rivers) and the heirs male of his body. This title was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He was succeeded in both baronies by his son, the second Baron. He had previously represented Dorset in Parliament. He sold part of the family estates, those around Stratfield Saye House to the nation in about 1814, so that it could be given to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. On his death in 1829 the barony of 1776 became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony of 1802 according to the special remainder to his nephew William Beckford, the third Baron. He was the son of the aforementioned Peter Beckford and the Honourable Louisa Pitt. He assumed at the same time by Royal licence the surname of Pitt-Rivers in lieu of his patronymic. The fourth Baron held political office as a Lord-in-waiting from 1853 to 1858 and 1859 to 1866. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baron in 1880.

List of titleholders

Baron Rivers; First creation (1299)
  • John Rivers, 1st Baron Rivers (d. c. 1311)
  • John Rivers, 2nd Baron Rivers (d. c. 1340)

Baron Rivers; Second creation (1448)

Baron Rivers; Third creation (1776)

Baron Rivers; Fourth creation (1802)
Lane–Fox–Pitt–Rivers family tree
Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers
(died 1640)
Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers
(1581–1650)		Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage
(died 1635)
John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers
(1603–1654)
Sir Richard Lane, 1st Baronet
(died 1668)		George Pitt
(died 1694)		Jane Savage
(died 1676)		Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers
(died 1694)		Richard Savage
George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough
(died 1683)		George Pitt
(died 1735)		Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
(died 1712)		John Savage, 5th Earl Rivers
(1665–1737)
James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough
(1650–1724)		Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley
(died 1731)		Frances Lane
(died 1674)		Henry Fox
(died 1719)		George Pitt
(died 1745)
Harriet Benson
(died 1771)		George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley
{died 1773)		Sackville Fox
(died 1760)		George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers
(1721–1803)
Robert Lane
(1732–1768)		James Fox-Lane
(1756–1821)		Marcia Lucy Pitt
(1756–1822)		George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
(1751–1828)		Louisa Pitt
(died 1791)		Sir Peter Beckford
(1740–1811)
George Lane-Fox
(1793–1848)		William Augustus Pitt Lane-Fox
(1796–1832)		Sackville Lane-Fox
(1797–1874)		Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers
George Lane-Fox
(1816–1896)		Augustus Pitt Rivers
(1827–1900)		Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers
(1827–1888)		George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
(1810–1866)		Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers
(1814–1880)
James Thomas Richard Lane-Fox
(1841–1906)		Alexander Edward Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers
(1855–1927)		St George Lane Fox-Pitt
(1856–1932)		William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt
(1858– )		Douglas Fox-Pitt
(1864–1922)		Marcia Pelham, Countess of Yarborough
(1863–1926)		Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis
(1865–1929)		Henry Pitt-Rivers, 5th Baron Rivers
(1849–1867)
George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley
(1870–1947)		Edward Lane-Fox
(1874–1949)		Emily Rachel Forster (died 1979)George Pitt-Rivers
(1890–1966)		Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
(1907–1990)		William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt
(1896–1988)
Francis Lane Fox
(1899–1989)		Marcia Agnes Mary Lane-Fox
(1904–1980)		James Henry Lane-Fox
(1912– )		Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox
(1918–1988)		Michael Pitt-Rivers
(1917–1999)		Julian Pitt-Rivers
(1919–2001)		George Anthony Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
(born 1932)		Valerie Pitt-Rivers
(born 1939)		William Oliver Lane Fox-Pitt
(1932–2012)
George Francis Lane Fox
(1931–2012)		Robin Lane Fox
(born 1946)		William Fox-Pitt
(born 1969)
Edward Lane Fox
(born 1976)		Martha Lane Fox
(born 1973)

See also

References
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