Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon is a British peerage title. It was first created in 1559 in the Peerage of England; the barony became extinct in 1765. The title was revived in 1923, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, when the businessman and owner of Hunsdon Manor, Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, was created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, of Briggens in the County of Hertfordshire. He was the fourth son of the first Baron Aldenham. In 1939, the second Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon succeeded to the Barony of Aldenham; the two baronies remain united. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... Jump to: navigation, search Baron Aldenham, of Aldenham in the County of Hertfordshire, is a British peerage title. ...
Hunsdon was one of the commissioners appointed to try Mary queen of Scots; after Mary's execution he went on a mission to James VI.
His eldest son, George (1547-1603), 2nd BaronHunsdon, was a member of parliament, a diplomatist, a soldier and lord chamberlain.
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp, and wife of the 2nd Lord Hunsdon, is celebrated as the patroness of her kinsman, the poet Spenser; and either this lady or her daughter Elizabeth was the author of the Tragedie of Marian (1613).
1560-1639), youngest son of Henry Carey, 1st BaronHunsdon, chamberlain and first cousin of Queen Elizabeth, by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan, of Arkestone in Herefordshire, was born about the year 1560.
But his conduct met with general and merited censure as "contrary to all decency, good manners and respect," and on James's arrival in England he was dismissed from his new post.
On the 23rd of February 1605, however, he was made governor of Prince Charles, in 1611 his master of the robes, in 1617 his chamberlain, and on the 6th of February 1622, he was created Baron Carey of Leppington.
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