Talk:Baron Wentworth

Anne & her horse
Is it me, or is there something funny about captioning a photo primarily of a horse, with a human in a peripheral position, as 'Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth'? It actually took me a moment to realize that this isn't intended as a joke. I'm tempted to insert '(left)' after the name in the caption, but I'm afraid that might actually make things worse. Perhaps 'Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, with her horse'? I'll leave this to someone else to fix, because the wrong impression has fixed itself too firmly in my mind to be able to assess these on their own terms. (None of which is to say that the horse doesn't look suitably dignified and aristocratic.) MJM74 (talk) 17:04, 20 December 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ The caption now reads: "Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, in Bedouin dress, and her favorite riding mare, Kasida Date" Senator2029  ║  talk  14:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

succession
The Barony passes through the female line? This is unusual and needs some comment. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:10, 29 October 2012 (UTC).


 * See barony by writ. In the absence of a patent specifying succession, the common law rules.  I don't know how many such baronies have existed, or what fraction they are of all baronies (or of all baronies not created simultaneously with a higher title). —Tamfang (talk) 03:04, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

In the Peerage of Scotland, female succession is quite common, actually. However, in the other British peerages, it is much more unusual. Laggan Boy (talk) 10:52, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

the second barony
The section on a second barony created in 1628 is all the work of User:Laggan Boy a few months ago, shortly after he added similar matter to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Laggan Boy has been active for ten years, so I guess it's not vandalism, but how about a reference? How does it relate to the other titles? It's anomalous for two baronies of Wentworth to coexist in different branches of the family; normally the junior would be "Wentworth of Somewhere". —Tamfang (talk) 03:11, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

I have now added a reference for this, the reference being from the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Laggan Boy (talk) 01:12, 5 January 2023 (UTC)