BaronShuttleworth, of Gawthorpe in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Both sons of the first Baron were killed in the First World War and he was therefore succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron.
On the death of the third Baron in 1942 the titles passed to his first cousin, the fourth Baron (eldest son of the second son of the first Baron), who survived the Second World War although he was badly wounded.
Lord Shuttleworth, tall and handsome, always led the family into service to take their places in the family pew at the front of the church, the staff occupying the a adjacent pew across the aisle.
The Shuttleworths were generous entertainers and opened the grounds of Gawthorpe to the public at weekends before the advent of Ightenhill Park.
Garden fetes were held to celebrate the coming of age of the Shuttleworth children, and these were great and colourful occasions for the youngsters of the district, when each received a souvenir gift, and when the members of the family mixed easily and readily with the visitors.
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