Somerset Maxwell, 8th Baron Farnham
Somerset Richard Maxwell, 8th Baron Farnham( 18 October 1803 – 4 June 1884) was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament.
He was the son of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham and Lady Anne Butler.
From 1839 to 1840, he was a Member of Parliament for Cavan and in 1844 High Sheriff of Cavan.
He married twice, firstly on 30 May 1839 to Dorothea Pennefather( 1824 – 1861), daughter of the eminent judge Richard Pennefather and his wife Jane Bennett.
He married secondly on 31 May 1864 to Mary Anne Delap( died 1873), daughter of Samuel Delap of Monellan, County Donegal.
On his older brother's death, he succeeded as 8th Baron Farnham on 20 August 1868.
He died on 4 June 1884, without issue, and was succeeded by his younger brother, James.
James Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham
James Pierce Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham( 1813 – 26 October 1896) was an Irish peer, Nova Scotia baronet and Member of Parliament.
He was the son of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham and Lady Anne Butler.
He became a Member of Parliament for County Cavan on 17 February 1843.
As Lieutenant Colonel of the 97th Foot he was severely wounded during the Crimean War.
On his brother's death, he succeeded on 4 June 1884 as 9th Baron Farnham, and later the next year, on 4 December 1885, he succeeded his distant cousin as 12th Baronet of Calderwood.
He died unmarried and was succeeded by his nephew, Somerset Henry Maxwell.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Arthur Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham
Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham (2 October 1879 – 5 February 1957) was British Army officer, an Irish Representative peer and a Nova Scotia baronet.
Maxwell was the son of Somerset Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham and Lady Florence Jane Taylour.
On his father's death in November 1900, he succeeded as 11th Baron Farnham (and 14th in the family Baronetcy) and inherited the Farnham estate, County Cavan.
He was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and received his first commission as second lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 12 August 1899.
The regiment had embarked for South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War in November 1899, and Maxwell joined them in March 1900, travelling on the SS "British Prince".
Shortly after arrival he was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1900.
Following the end of the war in 1902 his regiment went to India.
Lord Farnham joined almost 375 officers and men of the 10th Hussars who left Cape Town on the SS "Lake Manitoba" in September 1902, arriving at Bombay the following month, and was then stationed at Mhow in Bombay Presidency..
He was awarded a Distinguished Service Order in 1918 for his service in World War I.
On the 18 December 1908, he was elected an Irish Representative peer.
During World War I, he was Lieutenant Colonel of the North Irish Horse.
He sat in the House of Lords as a member of the Irish Unionist Alliance, and became its closing leader of Southern Unionists after the 1919 split in the party and which ceased operations after the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921.
He married on 8 October 1903 Aileen Selina, daughter of Charles Purdon Coote and Lydia Wingfield-Digby.
His son, Somerset, died of wounds in 1942 at El Alamein, and so on his own death in 1957 in a Dublin nursing home, his titles and his estate, which UK part amounted to £22,810, passed to his grandson, Barry.
His granddaughter Sheelin married the 3rd Baron Knollys.
Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham
The Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham (1774 – 19 October 1838) was an Irish peer and Church of Ireland clergyman.
He was the son of Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath, and grandson of John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham.
On his brother's death, he succeeded as 6th Baron Farnham on the 20 September 1838, holding the title for just under a month before his own death.
He married on 8 September 1798 to Lady Anne Butler (d. 29 May 1831), daughter of Henry Thomas Butler, 2nd Earl of Carrick.
They had the following issue:
He was succeeded by his eldest son Henry, who retained the title until his own death in a railway accident.
Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham
The Rt. Hon. Barry Owen Somerset Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham
( 7 July 1931- 22 March 2001), was an Irish peer and a Nova Scotia baronet.
The 12th Lord Farnham was the son of Somerset Arthur Maxwell, and grandson of Arthur Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham.
He was educated at Eton and Harvard Business School.
On his grandfather's death, he succeeded as 12th Baron Farnham( and 15th of his family Baronetcy).
He was a high ranking freemason and held office in the United Grand Lodge of England as Senior Grand Warden 1977- 78, Assistant Grand Master 1982- 89, Deputy Grand Master 1989- 91, and Pro Grand Master 1991- 2001.
He was due to retire on or about his 70th birthday; a few months before which he died and was succeeded in the barony by his brother, Simon Kenlis Maxwell, who lived in England.
His wife, Diana, the Dowager Baroness since 1987 is a co- Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.
Lady Farnham rode alongside the Queen on the way to the Diamond Jubilee service on 5 June 2012 in the absence( through illness) of the Duke of Edinburgh.
What is now Farnham Estate Hotel was the on- site replacement to the family seat and its main structure was commissioned around 1780 by Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham and designed by James Wyatt.
Its conversion was enabled when Lady Farnham sold it to a local entrepreneur.
Somerset Maxwell (King's Lynn MP)
Lieutenant- Colonel Somerset Arthur Maxwell( 20 January 1905 – 30 December 1942) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Simon Maxwell, 13th Baron Farnham
Simon Kenlis Maxwell, 13th Baron Farnham( born 12 December 1933), holds an Irish peerage title.
The current Lord Farnham is the son of Somerset Arthur Maxwell, and grandson of Arthur Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham.
He married on the 5 May 1964 to Karol Ann Prior- Palmer( 19 December 1938 – 3 July 2014), daughter of Maj.- Gen. George Erroll Prior- Palmer and Katherine Edith Bibby.
On his brother's death, he succeeded to the barony on the 22 March 2001.
He has successfully proven his succession to the Baronetcy of Calderwood and is therefore on the Official Roll of the Baronetage( for more information, follow this external link).
His sister- in- law, Diana Marion, the Lady Farnham, widow of 12th Baron Farnham, is Lady of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Lady Farnham rode alongside the Queen on the way to the Diamond Jubilee service on 5 June 2012 in the absence( through illness) of the Duke of Edinburgh.
John Maxwell-Barry, 5th Baron Farnham
John Maxwell- Barry, 5th Baron Farnham PC( Ire)( 18 January 1767 – 20 September 1838) was an Irish Representative peer and politician.
He was the son of Henry Maxwell, Lord Bishop of Meath, and grandson of John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham.
He married on 4 July 1789 to Juliana Lucy Annesley( died 10 October 1833), daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris, 8th Viscount Valentia.
In 1788, Maxwell- Barry stood as Member of Parliament for Cavan County, however was declared not duly elected.
He later represented Doneraile in the Irish House of Commons from 1792 to 1798, and subsequently Newtown Limavady until the Act of Union in 1801.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Carlow for 1795- 96 and Governor of co.
Cavan for 1805 to 1831.
He was also Colonel of the Cavan Militia between 1797 and 1823.
In the British House of Commons, he was Member of Parliament( MP) for Cavan from 1806 to 1824.
He was appointed a Privy Councillor in Ireland on 7 July 1809.
On the death of his first cousin, he succeeded at 5th Baron Farnham on 23 July 1823 and inherited the Farnham estate.
He was elected a representative peer on 17 December 1825.
He died without issue and so the barony and estate passed to his brother Henry.
Somerset Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham
Somerset Henry Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham (7 March 1849 – 22 November 1900) was an Irish Representative peer and a Nova Scotia baronet.

Question: When did Arthur Maxwell, 11Th Baron Farnham's father die?
Answer: 22 November 1900