Baron Ellenborough

[1] It was created on 19 April 1802 for the lawyer, judge and politician Sir Edward Law, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1802 to 1818.

Charles Law, Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, second son of the first Baron.

In 1885 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Towry (which was that of his father's mother).

When he died the title passed to his younger brother, the sixth Baron.

As of 2016[update] the title is held by the latter's great-grandson, the ninth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2013.