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B. Nicholson, and, especially, George Gilbert Scott and Edmund Beckett, first Baron Grimthorpe.
After a pointed lawsuit with Henry Hucks Gibbs, first Baron Aldenham over who should direct the restoration, Grimthorpe had the vault remade and reproportioned in stone, made the floor in black and white marble ( 1893 ), and had new Victorian arcading and sculpture put below the canopy work.
* Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe ( 1816 – 1905 )
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
He was succeeded by his eldest son, the fifth Baronet, who was raised to the peerage as Baron Grimthorpe in 1886.
He was the younger brother of the second Baron Grimthorpe.
* Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet ( 1816 – 1905 ) ( created Baron Grimthorpe in 1886 )
* Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe ( 1816 – 1905 )
* Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe ( 1856 – 1917 )
* Ralph William Ernest Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe ( 1891 – 1963 )
* Christopher John Beckett, 4th Baron Grimthorpe ( 1915 – 2003 )
* Edward John Beckett, 5th Baron Grimthorpe ( born 1954 )
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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe QC ( 12 May 1816 – 29 April 1905 ), known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison was a lawyer, horologist, and architect.
He studied at Eton, read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, was made a Queen's Counsel in 1854, and was created Baron Grimthorpe in 1886.
Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe ( 25 November 1856 – 29 April 1917 ), born Ernest William Denison, was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage.
He was the nephew of Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe and great nephew of Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet.
In 1905 he succeeded his uncle Lord Grimthorpe as 2nd Baron according to a special remainder in the letters patent, as well as in the family baronetcy.
Grimthorpe, Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron
Grimthorpe, Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron
Grimthorpe, Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron
Christopher John Beckett, 4th Baron Grimthorpe, OBE, DL, ( 16 September 1915 – 6 July 2003 ), was a soldier and company director.

Baron and East
* The Queen of the East ( 1956 ) by Alexander Baron
In the 1632 Charter of Maryland, King Charles I of England granted " all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head-Land, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the river Wigloo, on the West, unto the main Ocean on the East ; and between that Boundary on the South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Equinoctial, where New England is terminated " to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore as the colony of Maryland.
Edmund Dunch was created Baron Burnell of East Wittenham in April 1658, but this barony was not regranted.
After the renowned military officer Baron Wolfgang von Strucker had a falling out with Hitler, the Red Skull sent Strucker to Japan to found an organization that would prepare the way for takeovers in the Far East under the Skull's leadership.
Taking its name from Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney ( pronounced Rumney ), the town was originally granted in 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth to settlers from Colchester and East Haddam, Connecticut.
Baron Woolen Mills, 2007Baron Woolen Mills — 500 East
The East Front of unsurpassed length is credibly said to have been built as the result of a rivalry with the Stainborough branch of the Wentworth family, which inherited the Great Strafford's minor title of Baron Raby, but not his estates, which went to Watson, including the notable series of Strafford portraits by Anthony van Dyck and Daniel Mytens, who thereupon added Wentworth to his surname.
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB MP FRS ( 29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774 ), also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.
* Lord Derek Rayner ( Baron Rayner of Crowborough in the County of East Sussex ) was a chairman and chief executive of Marks & Spencer plc
Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO ( 5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964 ), also known as " Jumbo " Wilson, saw active service in the Second Boer War and First World War, and became a senior British general in the Middle East and Mediterranean during the Second World War.
In the 1965 birthday honours he was made a life peer as Baron Beeching, of East Grinstead in the county of Sussex, and in the same year he became a director of Lloyds Bank.
Ali G ( Sacha Baron Cohen ) is the leader of Da West Staines Massiv, a fictional gang composed of a group of wannabe gangsters from Staines ( a suburban town in north Surrey, to the west of London ); their chief rivals are Da East Staines Massiv.
Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, PC, DL ( born 17 June 1939, Swansea ), is a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament for Monmouth from 1966 to 1970 and Swansea East from 1974 to 2005.
David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, PC ( 1872 – 16 April 1955 ) was a socialist from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, viewed as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era.
* George Harris, victor of the Siege of Seringapatam against the Kingdom of Mysore, was created Baron Harris, of Seringapatam and Mysore in the East Indies and of Belmont in the County of Kent in 1815.
* William Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, Governor-General of India during the First Anglo-Burmese War that resulted in the annexation of Arakan, was created Earl Amherst, of Arracan in the East Indies in 1826.
* Sir Hugh Gough, victor at the Battle of Chinkiang, in the Gwalior Campaign and in the First Anglo-Sikh War, was created Baron Gough, of ChingKangFoo in China and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej in the East Indies in 1846, and following the Battle of Gujrat was further created Viscount Gough, of Goojerat in the Punjab and of the City of Limerick in 1849.
* Hugh Henry Rose, who captured Jhansi during the Indian Mutiny, was created Baron Strathnairn, of Strathnairn in the County of Nairn and of Jhansi in the East Indies in 1866.
He chose not to stand for re-election to the House of Commons in 1997 and on June 16, 1997 was made a life peer as Baron Baker of Dorking, of Iford in the County of East Sussex.
In June 2005 the peerage was gazetted as Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, of Cumnock in East Ayrshire.
Alexander Hore-Ruthven had been elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Gowrie, of Canberra in the Commonwealth of Australia and of Dirleton in the County of East Lothian, in 1935.
He was created a life peer in 1978 as Baron Soames, of Fletching in the County of East Sussex, and served as the interim Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1979 to 1980 between the Lancaster House Agreement and that country gaining independence as Zimbabwe.
In 1884 he was created of Baron Herries, Carleverock Castle in the County of Dumfries and of Everingham in the East Riding of the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
In 1957 he raised to the peerage as Baron Hailes, of Prestonkirk in the County of East Lothian.

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