Baron ffrench

Arms of ffrench

Baron ffrench, of Castle ffrench in the County of Galway, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1798 for Rose, Lady ffrench. She was the widow of Charles ffrench, who had been created a Baronet, of Castle ffrench in County Galway, in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1779. Their son Thomas succeeded in both the baronetcy and barony. Both titles have descended via primogeniture to the present Baron.

The title and the family name are both spelled with a lower-case double-'f'.

ffrench Baronets, of Castle ffrench (1779)

• Sir Charles ffrench, 1st Baronet (died 1784)
• Sir Thomas ffrench, 2nd Baronet (c. 1765–1814) (succeeded as Baron ffrench in 1805)

Barons ffrench (1798)

• Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench (died 1805)
• Thomas ffrench, 2nd Baron ffrench (c. 1765–1814)
• Charles Austin ffrench, 3rd Baron ffrench (1786–1860)
• Thomas ffrench, 4th Baron ffrench (1810–1892)
• Martin Joseph ffrench, 5th Baron ffrench (1813–1893)
• Charles Austin Thomas Robert John Joseph ffrench, 6th Baron ffrench (1868–1955)
• Peter Martin Joseph Charles John ffrench, 7th Baron ffrench (1926–1986)
• Robuck John Peter Charles Mario ffrench, 8th Baron ffrench (born 1956)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's uncle Hon. John Charles Mary Joseph ffrench (born 1928).

Notes

References

• Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes, London, 1903, p. 515.
• Kidd, Charles, & Williamson, David, editors, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, St Martin's Press, New York City, 1990.,
• Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland, 1999, ISBN 2-940085-02-1 vol.1, p. 535 (Cayley) and p. 1057 (ffrench).
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Barons of Ireland*
Pre-1801	Kingsale Dunsany Trimlestown Dunboyne Louth Inchiquin Digby Carbery Aylmer Farnham Lisle Macdonald Kensington Newborough Massy Muskerry Stanley of Alderley, Sheffield & Eddisbury Kilmaine Waterpark Graves Huntingfield Rossmore Hotham Crofton ffrench Henley & Northington Clanmorris Langford Henniker & Hartismere Dufferin & Claneboye Dunalley Ventry Ashtown
Post-1801 (precedence mixed with Baronies of the UK)	Rendlesham Castlemaine Decies Garvagh Talbot of Malahide Carew (also UK) Oranmore & Browne & Mereworth Bellew Fermoy Rathdonnell
*Current substantive barons, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest; Italics denotes a barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom