Baron Bolton
Baron Bolton, of Bolton Castle in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1797 for the Tory politician Thomas Orde-Powlett, who had previously served as Chief Secretary for Ireland. Born Thomas Orde, he was the husband of Jean Mary Browne-Powlett, illegitimate daughter of Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton, who had entailed the greater part of his extensive estates to her in default of male issue of his younger brother Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton. John Orde, younger brother of the first Baron Bolton, was  an Admiral in the Royal Navy and was created a baronet, of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland, in 1790. The sixth Duke died without male heirs in 1794 when the dukedom became extinct and the Bolton estates passed to Thomas Orde in right of his wife. In 1795 he assumed the additional surname of Powlett. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He briefly represented Yarmouth in the House of Commons. On his death the title passed to his nephew, the third Baron. His grandson, the fifth Baron, sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for  Richmond and served as Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire. In 2018, the title is held by the latter's great-grandson, Harry Algar Nigel [Orde-Powlett], 8th Baron Bolton, who succeeded his father. His residence in 2016 was Wensley Hall, Wensley, Leyburn. The family seat is Bolton Hall near Leyburn in North Yorkshire. His son Hon Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett MC is the current heir. Barons Bolton (1797). The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son, Capt. Hon. Thomas Peter Algar Orde-Powlett MC (b. 1979), who won the Military Cross in Iraq in  2003. He now runs Bolton Castle with his wife Katie. His heir apparent is his son, Hector Percy Algar Orde-Powlett (b. 2009). See also. Barons Scrope of Bolton (1371) Other titles: Bolton lands. According to John Bateman's "The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland", 1883, the 3rd Lord Bolton (1818–1895) of the day, of Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, &tc, and the London clubs Carlton and Boodle's, had in the North Riding of Yorkshire returning £ per year and in Hampshire , returning £ (converted from guineas). The sixth Baron, still as today of Bolton Hall, died in 1963  with free-to-distribute assets probated at and about of that amount the next year in a settled land valuation, co-administered by Sir Henry Lawson-Tancred.