Over the years, the title of Baron Loughborough of Loughborough has existed and become extinct and then been re-created. Between 1761 and 1780, the Scottish politician and lawyer, Alexander Wedderburn, sat in the House of Commons. In 1780 he was raised to the peerage and created Baron Loughborough.
The
designation of the title was changed in 1795 from Loughborough, Leicestershire,
to Loughborough, Surrey, making the Leicestershire title extinct. From 1793
until 1801 Wedderburn was the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, being created
First Earl of Rosslyn in April 1801, after being replaced in the position of
Lord Chancellor by John Scott, the Lord Eldon.
In 1786
Wedderburn bought land facing The Stray, in Harrogate, this being a picturesque
200-acre area of open grassland which linked the springs and wells that
contributed to the town becoming a spa town. The expanse of the Stray is now protected
by an Act of Parliament – The Stray Act 1985 – which safeguards and preserves
the area.
It was on
this land that Wedderburn built Wedderburn House, possibly incorporating part
of an earlier house that had been on the site. Harrogate is well-known for
being a spa town, and Wedderburn is also credited with erecting the first pump
room there in 1786. This pump room was associated with the St John’s Well, a
chalybeate spring (that is, a source of spring water containing much iron and
salt) which was originally discovered by Dr Stanhope in the early seventeenth
century.
Alexander
Wedderburn died in 1805, without issue, and the title of Baron Loughborough,
Surrey, has been passed down through his nephew: Peter St Clair-Erskine, 7th
Earl of Rosslyn uses the name Peter Loughborough, the latter coming from his
subsidiary title of Lord Loughborough. Loughborough’s son, Jamie William St
Clair-Erskine has the title of Lord Loughborough.
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