The title was created on 2 November 1911 for the Conservative politician George Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon, with remainder, in default of issue male, to his eldest daughter and the heirs male of her body, failing whom to his other daughters in like manner in order of primogeniture.The barony of Ravensdale passed according to the special remainder to his eldest daughter Irene.In 1958, following the passage of the Life Peerages Act 1958 which permitted women to sit in the House of Lords, Lady Ravensdale was granted a life peerage with the title of Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston, of Kedleston in the County of Derby.As of 2019[update] the title is held by her great-great-nephew the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 2017 and was elected to sit in the House of Lords in 2019.He is the great-grandson of Lady Cynthia (second daughter of Lord Curzon of Kedleston) and her husband Oswald Mosley.