Baron Selsdon, of Croydon in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
[1] It was created on 14 January 1932 for the Conservative politician Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baronet.
His son, the second Baron, was a successful racing driver, winning the 1949 24 Hours of Le Mans in the first Ferrari (although his codriver, Luigi Chinetti, actually drove for all but one half-hour).
The Mitchell-Thomson Baronetcy, of Polmood in the County of Peebles, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 September 1900 for the first Baron's father,[2] Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1897 to 1900.
The heir apparent is the current holder's son, the Hon.