Baron Langford
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Baron Langford, of Summerhill in the County of Meath, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Clotworthy Rowley. Born Clotworthy Taylor, he was the fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (whose eldest son was created Marquess of Headfort in 1800) and Jane Rowley, daughter of Hercules Langford Rowley and his wife Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford (created 1766). The Viscountcy of Langford became extinct in 1796 on the death of Hercules Rowley, 2nd Viscount Langford. Clotworthy Taylor succeeded to the Rowley estates and assumed by Royal license the surname of Rowley in lieu of Taylor. Four years later the Langford title was revived when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Langford. His great-grandson, the fourth Baron, sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1884 to 1919. The present holder of the Barony is a descendant of Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley, second son of the first Baron, and succeeded his kinsman the eighth Baron in 1953. Lord Langford is Constable of Rhuddlan Castle and Lord of the Manor of Rhuddlan. As a descendant of the first Earl of Bective, he is also in remainder to the Earldom of Bective, the Viscountcy of Headfort, the Barony of Headfort and the Baronetcy of Kells, titles held by his kinsman the Marquess of Headfort.
The family seat is Bodrhyddan Hall, Clwyd, Wales.
[edit] Barons Langford (1800)
- Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford (1763-1825)
- Hercules Langford Rowley, 2nd Baron Langford (1795-1839)
- Clotworthy Wellington William Robert Rowley, 3rd Baron Langford (1824-1854)
- Hercules Edward Rowley, 4th Baron Langford (1848-1919) (elected a Representative Peer in 1884)
- John Hercules William Rowley, 5th Baron Langford (1894-1922)
- William Chambre Rowley, 6th Baron Langford (1849-1931)
- Clotworthy Wellington Thomas Edward Rowley, 7th Baron Langford (1885-1952)
- Arthur Sholto Langmead Rowley, 8th Baron Langford (1870-1953)
- Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford (b. 1912)
