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{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
{{Infobox nobility title
| name = Barony of Wolverton
| image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|130px|centre]][[File:Arms of Glyn.svg|150px]]
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| caption = {{Collapsible list
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|title= Blazon
|1= '''Arms:''' ''Argent an eagle displayed with two heads sable guttle d'or''.
|2= '''Crests:''' ''An eagle's head erased sable guttle d'or, in the beak an escallop argent''.
|3='''Supporters:''' ''Two eagles, wings elevated sable guttee d'or''
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| creation_date = 14 December 1869
| creation =
| monarch = [[Queen Victoria]]
| peerage = [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
| baronetage =
| first_holder = [[George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton|George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton ]]
| last_holder =
| present_holder = Miles John Glyn, 8th Baron Wolverton
| heir_apparent =
| heir_presumptive = Jonathan Carlin Glyn
| remainder_to =
| subsidiary_titles =
| status = Extant
| extinction_date =
| family_seat =
| former_seat =
| motto = '''FIDEI TENAX''' <br/>''(Firm to my trust)''
| footnotes =
}}
'''Baron Wolverton''', of [[Wolverton]] in the [[Buckinghamshire|County of Buckingham]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23559 |date=26 November 1869 |page=6455}}</ref> It was created in 1869 for the banker [[George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton|George Glyn]]. He was the fourth son of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House, [[Lord Mayor of London]] in 1798, himself the fourth son of Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, [[Lord Mayor of London]] in 1758. Lord Wolverton was succeeded by the eldest of his nine sons, the second Baron. He was a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and served under [[William Ewart Gladstone]] as [[Paymaster General]] and as [[United Kingdom Postmaster General|Postmaster General]]. He was childless and was succeeded by his nephew, the third Baron. He was the eldest son of [[Vice-Admiral]] the Hon. Henry Carr Glyn, younger son of the first Baron. He died childless the following year aged only twenty-six, and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baron. He served as [[Vice-Chamberlain of the Household]] from 1902 to 1905 in the [[Conservative Government 1895-1905|Conservative administration]] of [[Arthur Balfour]]. On the death in 1988 of his second but eldest surviving son, the fifth Baron, this line of the family failed. The title was inherited by the late Baron's second cousin, the sixth Baron. He was the grandson of the Hon. [[Pascoe Glyn]], younger son of the first Baron. {{As of|2011}} the title is held by his grandson, the eighth Baron, who succeeded in 2011.

Several other members of the Glyn family have also gained distinction. The Hon. [[Pascoe Glyn]], younger son of the first Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for [[East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|Dorset East]]. The Hon. [[Sidney Glyn]], younger son of the first Baron, was Member of Parliament for [[Shaftesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Shaftesbury]]. The Right Reverend the Hon. [[Edward Glyn]], younger son of the first Baron, was [[Bishop of Peterborough]] and the father of [[Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn]]. The Hon. Henry Carr Glyn, younger son of the first Baron, was a [[vice-admiral]] in the [[Royal Navy]].

==Barons Wolverton (1869)==
{{Tree list}}
* [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] [[George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton|George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton]] (1797–1873)
** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] [[George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton|George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton]] (1824–1887)
** Vice-Admiral Hon. Henry Carr Glyn (1829–1884)
*** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] Henry Richard Glyn, 3rd Baron Wolverton (1861–1888)
*** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] [[Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton]] (1864–1932)
**** Hon. George Edward Dudley Carr Glyn (1896–1930)
**** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] Nigel Reginald Victor Glyn, 5th Baron Wolverton (1904–1986)
** Hon. Pascoe Charles Glyn (1833–1904)
*** Colonel Geoffrey Carr Glyn (1864–1933)
*** Maurice George Carr Glyn (1872–1920)
**** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] John Patrick Riversdale Glyn, 6th Baron Wolverton (1913–1988)
***** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] Christopher Richard Glyn, 7th Baron Wolverton (1938–2011)
***** [[Andrew Glyn|Hon. Andrew John Glyn]] (1943–2007)
****** [[Image:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] Miles John Glyn, 8th Baron Wolverton (born 1966)
****** '''(1)''' Jonathan Carlin Glyn (born 1990)
*** Hilary Beaujolais Glyn (1916–1995)
**** James Hilary Glyn (1939–2000)
***** '''(2)''' Caspar Hilary Gordon Glyn (born 1969)
****** '''(3)''' Oscar Robert Beaujolais Glyn (born 2001)
****** '''(4)''' Montfort James Jack Glyn (born 2003)
***** '''(5)''' Frederick Glyn (born 1987)
{{tree list/end}}

The [[heir presumptive]] is the present holder's half-brother Jonathan Carlin Glyn (born 1990).

==See also==
* [[Glyn baronets|Glyn baronets of Ewell and Gaunt's House]]
* [[Baron Glyn]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{cite book| title=Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage| editor-first=Charles| editor-last=Kidd| url=https://archive.org/details/b24883797/mode/2up?ref=ol| page=904| date=1903| publisher=London: Dean and son}}
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}

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[[Category:Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Glyn family|Wolverton]]
[[Category:Noble titles created in 1869]]
[[Category:Peerages created for UK MPs]]

Baron Wolverton - Revision history

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