Sable three Sword in pile points downwards Argent pommelled and hilted Or on a Canton Argent an Escutcheon Sable charged with a Salmon hauriant proper.
John Orde, younger brother of the first Baron Bolton, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and was created a baronet, of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland, in 1790.
The sixth Duke died without male heirs in 1794 when the dukedom became extinct and the Bolton estates passed to Thomas Orde in right of his wife. In 1795 he assumed the additional surname of Powlett. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He briefly represented Yarmouth in the House of Commons. On his death the title passed to his nephew, the third Baron. His grandson, the fifth Baron, sat as a ConservativeMember of Parliament for Richmond and served as Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The eighth Baron was an amateur jockey and pilot, who led aid convoys providing humanitarian relief to Bosnian Muslims during the Bosnian War. He later became custodian of Bolton Castle, successfully raising funds for its restoration.[1]
In 2023, the title is held by the latter's son, Thomas Peter Algar [Orde-Powlett], 9th Baron Bolton, who succeeded his father in June 2023.[2]
Barons Bolton (1797)
[edit]Kingsclere, 1848 shield, Orde-Powlett impaling Carleton for William Orde-Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782–1850) and his wife (married 1810) Maria Carleton (1777-1863), daughter of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester.William Thomas Orde-Powlett, 4th Baron Bolton (1845-1922), ready for a coronation, 7 August 1902, by Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London.
According to John Bateman's The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1883, the 3rd Lord Bolton (1818–1895) of the day,[8]ofHackwood Park, Basingstoke, &tc, and the London clubs Carlton and Boodle's, had in the North Riding of Yorkshire 15,413 acres (62 km2) returning £14,515.20 per year and in Hampshire 13,808 acres (56 km2), returning £14,414.40 (converted from guineas).[9]
The sixth Baron, still as today of Bolton Hall, died in 1963 with free-to-distribute assets probated at £71,979 (equivalent to about £1,900,000 in 2023) and about 1⁄20 of that amount the next year in a settled land valuation, co-administered by Sir Henry Lawson-Tancred.[10]
