[1] It was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.
In 1880 he was created Earl of Lathom, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
On his death, the title was inherited by his cousin, the sixth Baron.
His son, the seventh Baron, served in junior ministerial positions in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and was as one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers allowed to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999.
As of 2018[update], the title is held by his son, the eighth Baron, who succeeded him in that year.