The Brocklehurst Baronetcy, of Swythamley Park

Swythamley Hall

Swythamley Hall is a late 18th century country house near Leek, Staffordshire which has been converted into four separate residences. It is a Grade II listed building....

 in Leek in the County of Stafford, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 August 1903 for Philip Lancaster Brocklehurst. He was the youngest son of John Brocklehurst

John Brocklehurst

John Brocklehurst, DL, MP , known as John Brocklehurst the younger, was an English silk manufacturer, banker and Liberal Party politician from Macclesfield in Cheshire...

, a silk weaver and Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Macclesfield

Macclesfield (UK Parliament constituency)

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, the younger brother of William Coare Brocklehurst

William Coare Brocklehurst

William Coare Brocklehurst was an English Liberal Party politician and head of a family of silk producers in Macclesfield in the 19th century. He sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880 and from 1885 to 1886....

, also Member of Parliament for Macclesfield, and the uncle of John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough

John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough

Major-General John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough CB, CVO , was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

. He was succeeded by his eldest son,Philip Lee Brocklehurst the second Baronet. He was an Antarctic explorer and took part in Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

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's 1907 to 1909 expedition to Antarctica

Nimrod Expedition

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. He had met Shackleton whilst he was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He was married to Gwladys Murray (marriage later dissolved) by whom he had two daughters and on his death in 1975 the title passed to his nephew, the third Baronet. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942) (who was killed in action in Burma during the Second World War), second son of the first Baronet. When he died in 1981 the baronetcy became extinct.

Brocklehurst Baronets, of Swythamley Park (1903)

• Sir Philip Lancaster Brocklehurst, 1st Baronet (1827-1904)
• Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, 2nd Baronet (1887-1975)
• Sir John Ogilvy Brocklehurst, 3rd Baronet (1926-1981)