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Ribblesdale, Baron (GB, 1797 - 1925)

Creation: let.pat. 26 Oct 1797

Extinct: 21 Oct 1925

Family name: Lister

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Arms:

Ermine on a Fess Sable three Mullets Or

Crest:

A Stag's Head erased per fess proper and Gules attired Or differenced with a Crescent

Supporters:

Dexter: a Stag reguardant Sable attifred and hoofed Or charged on the body with an Eagle displayed or gorged with a Collar of SS and Portcullises Gold; Sinister: A Bay Horse bridled saddled and supporting a Staff proper headed Or with a Banner Vert fringed and charged with the Letters Y.L.D. Gold

Motto:

Retinens Vestigia Famae

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Thomas [Lister], 1st Baron Ribblesdale

only son and heir of Thomas Lister, of Gisburne Park, co. York (by his wife Beatrix Hulton, 3rd dau. of Jessop Hulton, of Hulton Park, co. Lancaster), 1st son and heir of Thomas Lister, of Arnoldsbigging, Westby Hall and Gisburne Park, by his wife Katherine Assheton, 3rd dau. by his first wife of Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Bt., of Middleton, co. Lancaster

born

22 Mar 1752

mar.

7 Nov 1789 Rebecca Fielding (b. c. 1772; d. 31 May 1816), dau. and cohrss. of Joseph Fielding, of Ireland, by his wife Elizabeth Jackson, dau. of Christopher Jackson, of co. Nottingham

children

1. Hon Thomas Lister, later 2nd Baron Ribblesdale

1. Hon Catherine Lister (b. 1793; dsp. 10 Oct 1873), mar. (1) 4 Sep 1810 James Skurr Day, (2) Dec 1817 her first cousin Rev John Fleming Parker (b. 1782; d. 18...), 3rd son of John Parker, of Brownsholme Hall, co. York, by his wife Beatrix Lister, only dau. of Thomas Lister, of Gisburne Hall, co. York, and (3) 26 Oct 1864 Rev Willoughby Rooke (d. 1 Jan 1902)

2. Hon Rebecca Adelaide Lister

died

22 Sep 1826

created

26 Oct 1797 Baron Ribblesdale, of Gisburne Park in the West Riding of the County of York

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament (Whig) for Clitheroe 1773-90; during the American Revolutionary War he raised a Regiment of Horse called "Lister's Light Dragoons"; Colonel of the Craven Regiment of Yeoman Cavalry 1790-1826; Sheriff of Yorkshire 1794

Thomas [Lister], 2nd Baron Ribblesdale

born

23 Jan 1790

mar.

9 Feb 1826 his second cousin Adelaide Lister (b. 12 Sep 1807; mar. (2) 11 Apr 1835 as his first wife John [Russell], 1st Earl Russell; d. 1 Nov 1838; bur. at Chenies, co. Buckingham, 1st dau. of Thomas Lister, of Armitage Park, co. Stafford, by his second wife Mary Grove, dau. of William Grove, of Honileigh, co. Warwick

children

1. Hon Thomas Lister, later 3rd Baron Ribblesdale

1. Hon Adelaide Lister (d. 27 Apr 1911), mar. 12 Jan 1847 Maurice Drummond CB (b. 9 Jul 1825; d. 18 May 1891), 3rd son of Charles Drummond, by his wife Hon Mary Dulcibella Eden, 6th dau. of William [Eden], 1st Baron Auckland, and had issue

2. Hon Isabel Mary Lister, mar. 1 Jun 1853 Rev William Parsons Warburton, Canon of Winchester, and had issue

3. Hon Elizabeth Theresa Lister (b. 1833; d. 1908), mar. 12 Nov 1862 Sir William Henry Melvill, Solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue (b. 26 Sep 1827; d. 18 Mar 1911; bur. Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne, co. East Sussex), yst. son of Sir James Cosmo Melvill KCB, last Chief Secretary of the HEICS 1836-58, by his wife Hester Jean Frances Sellon, yst. dau. of William Marmaduke Sellon, of Harlesden, co. Middlesex, and had issue

died

10 Dec 1832 (bur. at Gisburne, co. York)

suc. by

son

Thomas [Lister], 3rd Baron Ribblesdale

born

28 Apr 1828

mar.

7 May 1853 Emma Mure (b. 7 May 1833; d. 5 Jul 1911; bur. in East Finchley Cemetery), dau. of Col William Mure of Caldwell MP (by his wife Laura Markham, 2nd dau. of William Markham, of Becca Hall, co. York, and a descendant of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector), 1st son and heir of Col William Mure of Caldwell, by his wife Anne Hunter-Blair, dau. of Sir James Hunter later Hunter-Blair of Dunskey, 1st Bt., by his wife Jane Blair, only child of John Blair of Dunskey, b y his wife Anne Kennedy, dau. of Sir John Kennedy of Culzean, 2nd Bt.

children

1. Hon Thomas Lister, later 4th Baron Ribblesdale

2. Hon Martin Lister, British Resident in Straits Settlements (b. 25 Jul 1857; d. 24 Feb 1897)

3. Hon Sir Reginald Lister KCMG CVO, joined Diplomatic Service 1886, Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris 1906-08 and at Tangier and Consul-General in Morocco 1908-1912 (b. 19 May 1865; d. 10 Nov 1912)

1. Hon Beatrix Lister

2. Hon Adelaide Lister

died

by his own hand 25 Aug 1876 (bur. at Leukerbad, Switzerland)

suc. by

son

note

Lieut, Royal Horse Guards 1849

Thomas [Lister], 4th Baron Ribblesdale

born

29 Oct 1854

mar. (1)

7 Apr 1877 Charlotte Monkton Tennant (d. 2 May 1911), 3rd dau. of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt., of The Glen, co. Peebles, by his wife Emma Winsloe, dau. of Richard Winsloe, of Mount Nebo, Taunton, co. Somerset

children by first wife

1. Capt Hon Thomas Lister DSO, served in the South African War 1899-1902 and as a Special Service Officer with the Somaliland Filed Force 1903-04 (b. 2 May 1878; killed in action v.p. 10 Jun 1904)

2. Hon Charles Alfred Lister, 3rd Secretary Diplomatic Service, served in World War I 1914-18 as 2nd Lieut, Middlesex Hussars, and Temporary Lieut, Royal Marines (b. 26 Oct 1887; dvp. 28 Aug 1915 of wounds received in action at Gallipoli)

1. Hon Barbara Lister (b. 30 May 1880; d. 19...), mar. 1905 Lt Col Sir Matthew Richard Henry Wilson, 4th Bt., of Eshton Hall, co. York, and had issue

2. Hon Laura Lister (b. 12 Jan 1892; d. 24 Mar 1965), mar. 15 Oct 1910 Simon Joseph [Fraser], 14th Lord Lovat, and had issue

3. Hon Diana Lister (b. 7 May 1893; d. 3 Dec 1983), mar. (1) 17 Apr 1913 Lt Percy Lyulph Wyndham, of Clouds, co. Wiltshire (b. 5 Dec 1887; k. in action 15 Sep 1914), only child of Rt Hon George Wyndham MP, Under Secretary of State for War 1898-1900 and Chief Secretary for Ireland 1900-05, by his wife Lady Sibell Mary Grosvenor, widow of Lord Victor Alexander Grosvenor, styled Earl Grosvenor, and 4th dau. of Richard George [Lumley], 9th Earl of Scarbrough, (2) 1918 Capt Arthur Edward Capel CBE (d. 22 Dec 1919), and (3) 7 Jun 1923 Vere Anthony Francis St Clair [Fane], 14th Earl of Westmorland, and had issue by her second and third husbands

mar. (2)

1919 Ava Astor (widow of Col John Jacob Astor), dau. of Edward Willing, of Philadelphia, USA

died

s.p.m.s. 21 Oct 1925

note

served in the Army 1873-86, retiring as a Major; a Lord-in-Waiting 1880-85 and 1886; Master of the Buckhounds 1892-95; Liberal Whip in the House of Lords 1896-1907; Alderman, London County Council 1898-1904; a Trustee of the National Portrait Galley and of the National Gallery

On the death of the 4th Baron Ribblesdale in 1925 the Barony of Ribblesdale became extinct.

First written 26 Jun 2017

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