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In the peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the title, Baron Ernle, of Chelsea in the County of London, was granted to Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851-1937), by letters patent dated 4 February 1919. The barony became extinct upon the death of the 1st Baron Ernle on 1 July 1937. For further details on the lineage and career of Lord Ernle, consult, L.G. Pine's New Extinct Peerage, pp. 116, col. 2, and 117, col. 1, sub Ernle. Letters Patent by Queen Victoria creating the office of Governor-General of Australia Letters patent are a type of legal document which is an open letter issued by a monarch or government granting a right, monopoly, title, or status to someone or some entity such as a corporation. ...
Ernle was the surname of an English landed family descended from the lords of the manor of Earnley in Sussex.
The Sussex branch of the family gave rise to Sir John Ernle or Ernley, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1519-1521), during the reign of King Henry VIII of England, whose career and family connexions are detailed in the DNB and its successor, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Though apparently extinct as a surname in the United Kingdom, it has been actively preserved as the second component of the quadruple-barrelled surname, Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (see double-barrelled surname), borne by descendants of the 17th Baron of Dunsany, whose wife was Ernle Elizabeth Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Grosvenor, a female-line descendant of the Wiltshire Ernle family.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (January 17, 1709 – August 22, 1773), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Baronet between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.
The hall itself, which is in north Worcestershire, was designed by Sanderson Miller and is the last of the great Palladian houses to be built in England.
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