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Baron Trent

extinct barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2022
Entity authorityQ4862874 ↗
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Baron Trent, of Nottingham in the County of Nottingham, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 March 1929 for the businessman and philanthropist Sir Jesse Boot, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wilford in the County of Nottingham, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 January 1917. He was the son of John Boot, founder of Boots. Lord Trent was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was also head of the family business. The titles became extinct on his death in 1956.

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The public source identifies “Baron Trent” as extinct barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Baron, Trent and extinct.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 1917, 1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Baron, Trent and extinct providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Baron Trent” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.