Baron St Oswald, of Nostell in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1885 for the industrialist and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician Rowland Winn

Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald

Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician.The eldest son of Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, he lived in 1850s in another family property, Appleby Hall near Scunthorpe, and married Harriet Dumaresque...

, a former Member of Parliament

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 for North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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. His son, the second Baron, represented Pontefract

Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)

Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1621 until 1885, and one member from 1885 to 1974.-In the unreformed...

 in the House of Commons

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. His grandson, the fourth Baron, held junior ministerial positions in the Conservative administrations

Conservative Government 1957-1964

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 of Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

 and Alec Douglas-Home

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 and also sat as a Member of the European Parliament

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. the title is held by the latter's nephew, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1999.

The family seat is Nostell Priory

Nostell Priory

Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield...

 in Yorkshire

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. The house was handed over to the National Trust

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 in 1953 but is still the home of the Barons St Oswald.

Barons St Oswald (1885)

• Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald
  Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald
  Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician.The eldest son of Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, he lived in 1850s in another family property, Appleby Hall near Scunthorpe, and married Harriet Dumaresque...
  
   (1820–1893)
• Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald
  Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald
  Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald was a Conservative Party politician in England.At the 1885 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Pontefract in Yorkshire...
  
   (1857–1919)
• Rowland George Winn, 3rd Baron St Oswald (1893–1957)
• Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald
  Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald
  Rowland Denys Guy Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald MC DL , was a British soldier and Conservative politician.St Oswald was the eldest son of Rowland George Winn, 3rd Baron St Oswald, and his wife Eve Carew, daughter of Charles Greene...
  
  (1916–1984)
• Derek Edward Anthony Winn, 5th Baron St Oswald (1919–1999)
• Charles Rowland Andrew Winn, 6th Baron St Oswald (b. 1959)