Baron Wrottesley

The Wrottesley family's original patronymic was 'de Verdun' (otherwise 'de Verdon'),[2] which meant that the creation of the title Baron Wrottesley represented the third barony created by a branch of the de Verdun family in England.

The other two were established by Theobald de Verdun, 1st Baron Verdun of Alton Castle and Sir John de Verdon, 1st Baron Verdon, lord of Brixworth in Northamptonshire and Bressingham in Norfolk.

His son, the third Baron, held junior positions in the first two Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone.

In 1941 he married into the Noble House of Stratford, from which all subsequent Barons Wrottesley descend, and in 1963 he sold the Staffordshire estate.

His younger son, the seventh Baronet (who had succeeded his elder brother, who in his turn had succeeded his elder brother), sat as a Member of Parliament for Tavistock but later took Holy Orders and served as Dean of Worcester.