Henry Tufton, 1st Baron Hothfield

Henry James Tufton, 1st Baron Hothfield (4 June 1844 – 29 October 1926), known as Sir Henry James Tufton, 2nd Baronet, from 1871 to 1881, was a British peer, Liberal politician and owner and breeder of racehorses.

Hothfield was the son of Sir Richard Tufton, 1st Baronet, and his wife Adelaide Amelie Lacour.

The same year he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland, a post he held until 1926.

In 1886, he also served briefly as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone.

Tufton married in 1872 Alice Harriet Argyll Stracey (d. 1914), daughter of Reverend William James Stracy-Clitherow.