Baron Chorley

Baron Chorley, of Kendal in the County of Westmorland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for the barrister, academic and Labour politician, Robert Chorley. He was Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of Commercial and Industrial Law at the University of London from 1930 to 1946 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1946 to 1950 in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee. As of 2010 the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1978. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999. Lord Chorley sits as a cross-bencher.

Barons Chorley (1945)

• Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley (1895–1978)
• Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley (b. 1930)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. Nicholas Rupert Debenham Chorley (b. 1966)

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages