Baron Brereton

Baron Brereton, of Leighlin in the County of Carlow, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

[1][2] William Brereton was from an old and distinguished family in Cheshire,[3] and the family seat was Brereton Hall in Cheshire,[2] however Brereton had an estate near Old Leighlin, for which he and his heirs were absentee landlords.

His son, the third Baron, was one of the founders of the Royal Society.

Two of his sons, the fourth and fifth Barons, succeeded in the title.

[2] The estates passed to the Holte family,[4] descended from the second Baron's sister.