Baron Belstead, of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 27 January 1938 for the Conservative

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 politician Sir Francis Ganzoni, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Ipswich

Ipswich

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 in the County of Suffolk

Suffolk

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, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 March 1929. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was also a Conservative politician and served as Leader of the House of Lords

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 from 1988 to 1990. After the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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, Lord Belstead was created a life peer

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 as Baron Ganzoni, of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk, on 17 November 1999, in order to allow him to remain in the House of Lords

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. He never married and the titles became extinct on his death in 2005.

Barons Belstead (1938)

• Francis John Childs Ganzoni, 1st Baron Belstead (1882–1958)
• John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead
  John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead
  John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead PC was a British Conservative politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Margaret Thatcher from 1988 to 1990.-Background and education:...
  
  (1932–2005)