Baron Bethell, of Romford in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was created in the 1922 Dissolution Honours for the banker and Liberal politician Sir John Bethell, 1st Baronet, who had previously represented Romford and East Ham North in Parliament.

[1] The title descended from father to son until the early death of the third Baron, in 1967.

As of 2017[update], the titles are held by his eldest son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2007[4] and was elected in 2018 to sit in the House of Lords as one of the 92 representatives of the hereditary peers.

[5] The heir apparent is the present holder's son Jacob Nicholas Douglas Bethell (b.