Baron Clinton

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The Barony of Clinton is a barony by writ in the Peerage of England, dating to 1298. For a time in the 16th and 17th centuries it was held by the Earls of Lincoln. The fourteenth Baron was created Baron Fortescue and Earl of Clinton in 1746. On his death the barony of Fortescue was inherited, according to a special remainder in the letters patent, by his half-brother Matthew (from whom the Earls Fortescue descend) while the earldom became extinct. The barony of Clinton was inherited by a female cousin.

Barons Clinton (1298)

Heir-Apparent: His son Hon. Charles Patrick Rolle Fane-Trefusis (b. 1962)
Heir-Apparent's Heir-Apparent: Fane-Trefusis's son Edward Charles Rolle Fane-Trefusis (b. 1994)