Baron

I. fr. and eng. A particular degree of nobility in England, — the fifth and lowest; a judge of the court of exchequer; a husband; a freeman. The chief citizens of London and some other places in England in which the citizens have peculiar privileges are called barons in early charters, and so of the freemen of the cinque ports. Barons of the cinqne ports: members of parliament returned from the cinque ports, — the inhabitants of those ports generally.