Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh

Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh DL (8 April 1916 – 10 June 1955), was a British peer and soldier.

[1] Hesketh was the son of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh, and Florence Louise Breckinridge, of Kentucky, daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and granddaughter of General (CSA) John C. Breckinridge, Vice-President of the United States of America and Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, in 1909.

[2] On 22 November 1949[3] he married Christian Mary McEwen (known as Christian Lady Hesketh) (17 July 1929 – 7 April 2006),[3] daughter of Captain Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen and had three children: Hesketh was a collector of top-end books in the early 1950s.

The trustees of his will sold some of his books, manuscripts and letters in 2010 at Sotheby's.

The four volumes of John James Audubon's Birds of America were bought by renowned London book dealer Michael Tollemache for a record £7,321,250.