Baron Redesdale
Arms of Baron Redesdale: Argent, a fess between three moles sable (Mitford); 2nd and 3rd, Azure three Lozenges conjoined in fess Or a Canton Ermine (Freeman)
Creation date	1802
Creation	1st creation
Created by	George III
First holder	Sir John Mitford
Last holder	John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale
Status	extinct
Former seat(s)	Mitford Castle Batsford Park
Motto	"God Careth For Us"

Baron Redesdale, ofRedesdale in theCounty of Northumberland, is a title that has been created twice in thePeerage of the United Kingdom. It was firstly created in 1802 for the lawyer and politicianSir John Mitford (later Freeman-Mitford).^[1] The title was created anew in 1902 for the former's cousin thrice removedBertram Freeman-Mitford.

TheMitford family is an aristocratic English family, with origins in medieval Northumberland where they heldMitford Castle. Sir John Mitford wasSpeaker of the House of Commons between 1801 and 1802 andLord Chancellor of Ireland between 1802 and 1806. His only son,the second Baron, served as Chairman of Committees in theHouse of Lords from 1851 to 1886. In 1877, he was createdEarl of Redesdale, in the County of Northumberland, in thePeerage of the United Kingdom.^[2] Lord Redesdale never married, and on his death in 1886 both titles became extinct. The Earl bequeathed his substantial estates to his first cousin twice removed, the diplomat, politician and writerSir Bertram Mitford, the great-grandson of historianWilliam Mitford, who was the elder brother of the first Baron Redesdale.

The Redesdale title was revived when Bertram Freeman-Mitford was raised to the peerage asBaron Redesdale, of Redesdale in the County of Northumberland, on 15 July 1902.^[3] He was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son,David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, who is chiefly remembered as the father of the famousMitford sisters. He was also a member of theRight Club, founded byArchibald Maule Ramsay. His only son,the Hon.Thomas Freeman-Mitford, waskilled in action inBurma in 1945.

Lord Redesdale was therefore succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. He wasHigh Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1935. He died childless in 1962 when the title passed to his younger brother, the fourth Baron. He died in the following year, also childless, and was succeeded by his nephew, the fifth Baron. He was the son of the Hon. Ernest Rupert Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, fifth son of the first Baron.

As of 2020^[update], the title is held by the fifth Baron's son,the sixth Baron, who succeeded in 1991. He is aLiberal Democrat member of theHouse of Lords, who in 2000 was created alife peer asBaron Mitford, of Redesdale in the County of Northumberland,^[4] to enable him to return to the House after the majority ofhereditary peers lost their seats under theHouse of Lords Act 1999.

• John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1748–1830)
• John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1805–1886; createdEarl of Redesdale in 1877)

• John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale (1805–1886)

• (Algernon) Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837–1916)
• David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958)
  • Hon.Thomas Freeman-Mitford (1909–1945)
• Bertram Thomas Carlyle Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 3rd Baron Redesdale (1880–1962)
• John Power Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 4th Baron Redesdale (1885–1963)
• Clement Napier Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 5th Baron Redesdale (1932–1991)
• Rupert Bertram Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale (born 1967)

Theheir apparent is the present holder's eldest son, the Hon. Bertram David Mitford (born 2000).

• William Mitford
• Mitford sisters

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