Baron Askwith, of St Ives in the County of Huntingdon, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1919 for the civil servant and arbitrator Sir George Askwith. The title became extinct upon his death in 1942. Lord Askwith was the son of General William Askwith and the great-grandson of William Askwith (1740-1815), Mayor of Ripon

Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city, market town and successor parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located at the confluence of two streams of the River Ure in the form of the Laver and Skell. The city is noted for its main feature the Ripon Cathedral which is architecturally...

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Barons Askwith (1919)

• George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith (1861–1942)