Baron Grimthorpe

[1] It was created on 17 February 1886 for the lawyer and architect Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet, with remainder to the heirs male of his father.

As of 2014[update] the titles are held by the latter's great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2003.

The Beckett baronetcy, of Leeds in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1813 for John Beckett, Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, the fifth Baronet, who was raised to the peerage as Baron Grimthorpe in 1886.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Hon.