Baron Northwick

It was created in 1797 for Sir John Rushout, 5th Baronet, for many years Member of Parliament for Evesham.

He, in turn, was succeeded by his nephew, the third Baron, the son of George Rushout-Bowles (who had assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Bowles in 1817, which was that of his maternal grandfather Humphrey Bowles), younger son of the first Baron.

The Baronetcy, of Milnst in the County of Essex, was created in the Baronetage of England in 1661 for the 17-year-old James Rushout, subsequently Member of Parliament for Evesham and Worcestershire.

[1] He was the son of John Rushout, a Flemish merchant of London and Northwick, Worcestershire.

Harriet, daughter of the first Baron, married Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet.