Earl of Wharncliffe
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Earl of Wharncliffe, in the West Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe
Wortley Hall, the family seat until 1950
Colonel James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, PC, was a British soldier and politician. A grandson of Prime Minister the 3rd Earl of Bute, he held office under Sir Robert Pe
Earl of Wharncliffe
…In 1803, he also inherited the Scottish estates of his uncle James Stuart-Mackenzie and assumed the additional surname of Mackenzie. His second son, James Stuart-Wortley, was a soldier and prominent Tory politician. In 1826, he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Wharncliffe, of Wortley in the County…
Robert Peel