Robert Borwick, 1st Baron Borwick

Robert Borwick was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1902 Birthday Honours[1] and knighted by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.

[2] He was created a Baronet (in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom), of Eden Lacy in the County of Lancaster, in 1916.

In 1922 he was further honoured when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Borwick, of Hawkshead in the County of Lancaster, for "providing hospital treatment for the sick and wounded Colonial officers throughout the war".

Lord Borwick married in 1872, Caroline (d. April 1936), daughter of the Reverend Richard Daniel Johnston of Kurnool, India.

[citation needed] He died in January 1936, aged 91, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son George, 2nd Baron Borwick.