Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

* 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.

** Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1977 )

Leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini, General Douglas MacArthur, and leaders of Imperial Japan have drawn inspiration from the work.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, GCB, MC, DFC ( 23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969 ) was a senior figure in the Royal Air Force up to and during World War II.

In 1948 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, of Dornock in the County of Dumfries.

* Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside ( 1893 – 1969 ), British airforce office

* James Douglas, 5th Baron Drumlanrig ( d. 1498 ), son of the 4th Baron Drumlanrig

* James Douglas, 7th Baron Drumlanrig ( d. 1578 ), son of the 6th Baron Drumlanrig

* James Douglas, 8th Baron Drumlanrig ( died 1615 ), grandson of the 7th Baron Drumlanrig

* William Douglas, 1st Baron Drumlanrig ( died 1427 ), illegitimate son of the 2nd Earl of Douglas

* William Douglas, 2nd Baron Drumlanrig ( died 1458 ), son of the 1st Baron Drumlanrig

* William Douglas, 3rd Baron Drumlanrig ( died 1464 ), son of the 2nd Baron Drumlanrig

* William Douglas, 4th Baron Drumlanrig ( died 1484 ), son of the 3rd Baron Drumlanrig

* William Douglas, 6th Baron Drumlanrig ( died 1513 ), son of the 5th Baron Drumlanrig

Baron Bettino Ricasoli ( later Prime Minister in the Kingdom of Italy ) created the Chianti recipe of 70 % Sangiovese, 15 % Canaiolo and 15 % Malvasia bianca in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

The Duke of Marlborough holds certain subsidiary titles: Marquess of Blandford ( created 1702 ), Earl of Sunderland ( 1643 ), Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ), Baron Spencer, of Wormleighton ( 1603 ), and Baron Churchill, of Sandridge ( 1685 ) ( all are in the English peerage ).

On 18 October, he was created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, fourth son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a Liberal politician and was created Baron Stanmore in 1893 ( see this title for more information on him and this branch of the family ).

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618 and the Viscount St. Alban in 1621 ; as he died without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death.

On 12 July 1618 the king created Bacon Baron Verulam, of Verulam, in the Peerage of England.

By now the siege was over, and George Augustus Eliott was awarded the Knight of the Bath and was created 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar.

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ( French: Comité international olympique, CIO ) is an international non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president.

Hamilton was made Sheriff of Linlithgow in 1600, received large grants of lands in Scotland and Ireland, was created in 1603 Baron Abercorn, and on 10 July 1606 was rewarded for his services in the matter of the union by being made Earl of Abercorn and Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell and Kilpatrick.

* James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Abercorn ( c. 1604 – c. 1670 ), created Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane in the Peerage of Ireland in his father's lifetime.

His elder daughter, Mary, married John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden.

The Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, briefly regained the castle, with the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon.

In 1999, he was created a life peer, as Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester.

He was introduced to the House of Lords on 31 January 2005, after being created Baron Kinnock, of Bedwellty in the County of Gwent.

The castle became then the seat of the Baron of Posada, a title and a fief created in 1431 for Don Nicolò Carroz and formally ended in 1856, when it was finally bought by the kingdom of Sardinia ( the last one of all Sardinian fiefs ).

* January 3 – In the court of James I of England, the king's favorite George Villiers becomes Master of the Horse ; on April 24 he receives the Order of the Garter ; and on August 27 is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £ 80, 000.

* 1264 – In the Peerage of England, the title Baron de Ros, the oldest continuously held peerage title in England, is created by writ of summons.

* Renfrew was created a life peer in 1991 as Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, of Hurlet in the District of Renfrew.

* In the Peerage of England, the title Baron de Ros, the oldest continuously held peerage title in England, is created by writ of summons.

Ali G ( born Alistair Leslie Graham ) is a satirical fictional character created and performed by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

* Ali G ( fictional character created by Sacha Baron Cohen )

The fort was renamed in 1791 to Fort Steuben in honor of Baron von Steuben.

Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen. Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen ( 25 August 1791, Korbach, Waldeck – 28 November 1860, Bonn ) was a German diplomat and scholar.

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, painted 1791.

She was succeeded by her son, George Walpole, third Earl of Orford and sixteenth Baron Clinton ( d. 1791 ).

The barony which had been dormant since 1791 was successfully claimed in 1794 by the late Earl of Orford's cousin Robert George William Trefusis ( 1764 – 1797 ), who became the seventeenth Baron Clinton.

* 25pxGeorge Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, 16th Baron Clinton ( 1730 – 1791 ) ( son by mother's 1st marriage ) ( dormant on his death )

* Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton ( 1791 – 1866 ) ( brother )

* William Craven, 6th Baron Craven ( 1738 – 1791 )

The latter's half-brother Laurence Harman Parsons was in 1792 raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Oxmantown, with remainder to his nephew Sir Lawrence Parsons, 5th Baronet, who had succeeded his father the fourth Baronet in 1791.

He was created Baron Welles, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone, in 1781, and Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone, in 1791.

It was created in 1791 for Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Baron Harberton, who had previously represented County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons.

The holders of the peerage also held the titles of Baron Walpole, of Houghton in the County of Norfolk, Viscount Walpole and Earl of Orford ( second creation ) from 1745 to 1797, the title of Earl of Orford ( third creation ) from 1806 to 1931 and the title of Baron Clinton from 1781 to 1791.

* George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, 2nd Baron Walpole ( 1730 – 1791 )

* Richard Handcock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine ( 1791 – 1869 )

* Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton ( 1791 – 1863 )

* Henry White, 1st Baron Annaly ( 1791 – 1873 )

* Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh ( 1791 – 1850 )

The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1791 when the Chief Secretary for Ireland Alleyne Fitzherbert was made Baron St Helens.

He then trained under a number of distinguised Paris physicians including René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec ( 1781 – 1826 ), Baron Guillaume Dupuytren ( 1777 – 1835 ), François Magendie ( 1783 – 1855 ), and Léon-Jean-Baptiste Cruveilhier ( 1791 – 1874 ).

* Thomas Knox, 1st Baron Welles ( 1729 – 1818 ) ( created Viscount Northland 1791 )

Madrid ( May 1791 ) as ambassador extraordinary, and under his care all disputes were settled in the succeeding October, for which services he was raised to the Irish peerage with the title of Baron St. Helens.

* Richard ( died 1791 ), served as Dean of Exeter and succeeded as 3rd Baron Altham, married Dorothy, daughter of John Davey, of Ruxford, Devon ;

Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton PC, FRS ( 18 March 1791 – 4 May 1863 ), was a British politician, of first the Canningite Tories and later the Whigs.