Baron Ravensworth

The title of Baron Ravensworth had previously been created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1747 for the fourth Baronet, but this had become extinct in 1784.

His son, the second Baron, was Conservative Member of Parliament for Northumberland, North Durham and Liverpool.

This great stately home was almost completely demolished in the 1920s due to subsidence, ironically caused by the family's own coal mines, the profits of which had paid for its construction.

The castle's stables, which survive in a ruinous state, were featured in the Restoration (television) programme on the BBC in 2003.

The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son, Henry Arthur Thomas Liddell (born 1987)