Baron Rookwood

[1] It was created on 15 June 1892 for the Conservative politician Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 7th Baronet.

[2] His descendant Henry Ibbetson raised a force of 100 men at his own expense during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1746.

In 1748 he was created a Baronet, of Leeds in the County of York in the Baronetage of Great Britain.

However, after succeeding in the baronetcy in 1825 he resumed by sign manual the surname of Ibbetson in addition to that of Selwin.

On his death the title passed to his only son, the aforementioned seventh Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1892.