Baron Norton, of Norton-on-the-Moors in the County of Stafford

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1878 for the Conservative

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 politician and former President of the Board of Trade, Sir Charles Adderley. He was succeeded by his elder son, the second Baron. Two of his sons, the third and fourth Baron, both succeeded in the title. On the latter's death in 1944 the title passed to his eighty-nine-year-old uncle, the fifth Baron.

Barons Norton (1878)

• Charles Bowyer Adderley, 1st Baron Norton (1814–1905)
• Charles Leigh Adderley, 2nd Baron Norton (1846–1926)
• Ralph Bowyer Adderley, 3rd Baron Norton (1872–1933)
• Ronald Wollstan Fleetwood Adderley, 4th Baron Norton (1885–1944)
• Henry Arden Adderley, 5th Baron Norton (1854–1945)
• Hubert Bowyer Arden Adderley, 6th Baron Norton (1886–1961)
• John Arden Adderley, 7th Baron Norton (1915–1993)
• James Nigel Arden Adderley, 8th Baron Norton (b. 1947)