The title Baron Queenborough of Queenborough, Kent was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1919. The title became extinct on September 22, 1949. Queenborough is a small town in Kent, England, which grew as a port near the Thames Estuary. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... 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. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
Lord Hugh de Camoys: Baron by tenure of Bekerton Manor, to which he succeeded, together with the greater part of his grandfather's estates, on the death of the latter in 1421; also succeeded to his father's estates on the death of his brother John.
Baron by tenure of lands in Calais held in chief "per Baroniam" to which he succeeded on the death of his nephew Hugh as the Latter's heir male in consequence of the limitation in tail male of their grant in 1376, as previously related, by Edward III to Wm.
Baron by tenure of lands in Calais held in chief "per baroniam" to which, probably together with Bekerton Manor, he succeeded on the death of his infant nephew Roger as the latter's heir male.
Her title, Lady Queenborough, is often misspelt "Queensborough" and sometimes referred to as a pen-name or pseudonym.
Assuming that the only available picture of Lady Queenborough was taken in 1924 when her second of three children was less than a year old, it is a portrait of a women in her mid-thirties and therefore she was probably born in or around 1890.
Lord Queenborough had a fierce dislike for communism and the admittance of Russia to the League of Nations in 1936 prompted his resignation as treasurer of the League of Nations Union, a position he had filled for sixteen years.
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