{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox nobility title | name = Barony of Arklow | image = 180px | image_size = 180px | alt = | caption = Arms of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | creation_date = 24 May 1881 | creation = Second | monarch = Queen Victoria | peerage = Peerage of the United Kingdom | baronetage = | first_holder = Prince Augustus Frederick | last_holder = Prince Charles Edward | present_holder = | heir_apparent = | heir_presumptive = | remainder_to = the 1st Baron's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten | subsidiary_titles = | status = Suspended | extinction_date = | family_seat = | former_seat = | motto = | footnotes = }}
'''Baron Arklow''' was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that has been created twice. Arklow is a town in County Wicklow in Ireland.
==History== ===First creation, 1801=== It was created first in 1801 as a substantive title by King George III for his son Prince Augustus Frederick.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=15429 |date=24 November 1801 |page=1403 }}</ref> Augustus Frederick was also created Duke of Sussex and Earl of Inverness, on the same day. The title became extinct upon Prince Augustus Frederick's death in 1843.
Although Prince Augustus Frederick was survived by a son and daughter by Lady Augusta Murray, their marriage (purportedly solemnized at St George's Hanover Square Church, Westminster, in 1793) had been annulled for lack of royal permission under the Royal Marriages Act 1772, rendering the children illegitimate under English law and unable to inherit titles from their father. Both children by the annulled marriage died childless, rendering the issue of their inheritance moot.
On 2 May 1831, Prince Augustus Frederick married secondly (and again in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772), Lady Cecilia Gore at Great Cumberland Place, London. Not being the Prince's legitimate wife, Lady Cecilia could not be received at court. On 30 March 1840, she was given the title of Duchess of Inverness in her own right by Queen Victoria.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=19842 |page=858 |date=31 March 1840}}</ref>
===Second creation, 1881=== The second creation in 1881, as a substantive title by Queen Victoria for her son Prince Leopold.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24977 |date=24 May 1881 |page=2677 }}</ref> Leopold was also created Duke of Albany and Earl of Clarence, on the same day. Prince Leopold's son, Prince Charles Edward (who had succeeded as reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1900), was deprived of the peerage in 1919 for bearing arms against the United Kingdom in World War I.<ref name="eilers">{{cite book |last=Eilers |first=Marlene |title=Queen Victoria's Descendants |publisher=Rosvall Royal Books |place=Falkoping, Sweden |date=1997 | pages=106–108, 160–162, 164–165, 179–180 |ISBN=91-630-5964-9}}</ref>
==Baron Arklow, first Creation (1801)== {{Nobility table header|name=Baron}} | '''Prince Augustus Frederick'''<br />House of Hanover<br />1801–1843<br /> ''<small>also: Duke of Sussex and Earl of Inverness (1801)</small>'' | 100px|Prince Augustus Frederick | 27 January 1773<br />Buckingham House, London<br />son of King George III and Queen Charlotte | 4 April 1793<br /> Lady Augusta Murray<br />2 children<br /><br />2 May 1831<br />Lady Cecilia Underwood<br />No children | 21 April 1843<br />Kensington Palace, London<br />aged 70 |- | colspan=5|''Prince Augustus' marriage to Lady Augusta Murray, which produced two children, was invalid under the Royal Marriages Act 1772; accordingly all his titles became extinct on his death.'' |- |}
==Baron Arklow, second Creation (1881)== {{Nobility table header|name=Baron}} | '''Prince Leopold'''<br />House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha<br />1882–1884<br /><small>''also: Duke of Albany and Earl of Clarence (1881)''</small> | 100px|Prince Arthur | 7 April 1853<br />Buckingham Palace, London<br />son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert | Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont<br />27 April 1882<br />2 children | 28 March 1884<br />Villa Nevada, Cannes<br />aged 30 |- | '''Prince Charles Edward'''<br />House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha<br />1884–1919<br /><small>''also: Duke of Albany and Earl of Clarence (1881)''</small> | 100px|Prince Arthur | 19 July 1884<br />Claremont, Esher<br />son of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena | Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein<br />11 October 1905<br />5 children | 6 March 1954<br />Coburg<br />aged 69 |- |colspan=5|''The Titles Deprivation Act 1917 suspended the title on 28 March 1919.'' |- |}
== Family tree == {{Dukes of Sussex family tree}}
==References== <references/>
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