Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by writ.
Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre. Executed for murder in 1541, when title was forfeit. Arms of Fiennes, Barons Dacre: Azure, three lions rampant or.
Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre (1539–94), son of the 9th Baron Dacre. He was restored to the title in 1558. Portrait by Hans Eworth (detail).
Portrait by Andrea Soldi of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (1736-1744)
The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of August 2023, there are 805 hereditary peers: 30 dukes, 34 marquesses, 189 earls, 110 viscounts, and 442 barons.
The House of Lords (sitting in its old chamber, burned down in 1834) as drawn by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for Rudolph Ackermann’s Microcosm of London (1808–1811)
Letters patent granting the Dukedom of Marlborough to Sir John Churchill were later amended by Parliament
In 1984 Harold Macmillan, a former prime minister, was the last non-royal recipient of a hereditary peerage, the Earldom of Stockton
Matt Ridley, science writer and conservative journalist, is the Viscount Ridley