Baron Monson (pronounced Munson[2]), of Burton in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.
His eldest son, the second Baronet, fought as a Royalist during the Civil War and also represented Lincoln in the House of Commons.
In 1728 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Monson, of Burton in the County of Lincoln.
Lord Monson married Lady Margaret, youngest daughter of Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham.
In 1886, he was created Viscount Oxenbridge, of Burton in the County of Lincoln, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
His great-grandson, the eleventh Baron, was a civil liberties campaigner and president of the Society for Individual Freedom who sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Also, Sir Edmund Monson, younger brother of the first Viscount Oxenbridge and the eighth Baron, was a noted diplomat and served as British Ambassador to France from 1896 to 1904.