Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood

Stained glass window to 1st Baron Rookwood in St Mary's Church, Matching, Essex. Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood, (26 September 1826 – 15 January 1902), known as Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt, from 1869 to 1892, was a British Conservative politician. He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1874 and 1878 and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1878 and 1880.

Background and education Born Henry John Selwin, Rookwood was the only son of Sir John Thomas Selwin, 6th Baronet, and his wife Isabella, daughter of General John Leveson-Gower, and was educated at home and at St John's College, Cambridge where he took his degree in 1849.

Political career Selwin-Ibbetson unsuccessfully contested Ipswich in 1857 and 1859 He later represented Essex West from 1868 to 1885 Lord Rookwood "secured Epping Forest for the public".

Family Lord Rookwood married firstly the Hon. Sarah Elizabeth Copley, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Lord Chancellor John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, in 1850. After her death in 1865 he married secondly Eden Thackrah, daughter of George Thackrah and widow of his first cousin Sir Charles Henry Ibbetson, 5th Baronet, in 1867. After her death in 1899 he married thirdly Sophia Harriet Lawrell ( – 30 July 1932), daughter of Digby Lawrell, in 1900. There were no children from the three marriages.

His estate comprised some 4,000 acres, coal mines in Durham and Yorkshire, and a considerable quantity of house property in Halifax.

Lord Rookwood died in London 15 January 1902, aged 75, when the baronetcy and barony both became extinct.