[3] It was created on 1 November 1917 for civil servant Sir Francis Hopwood.

[1] He was succeeded by James, his son from his first marriage to Alice Smith-Neill (1862–1889).

[4] The second baron was also a civil servant and worked for the Board of Trade and Ministry of Labour as well as for the War Trade Intelligence Department and War Trade Department.

On his death the title passed to his half-brother, the first baron's son by his second marriage to Florence Emily Black.

[5] The title became extinct on the death of the latter's son, the fourth Baron, on 15 June 1992.