Baron Teignmouth was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1798 for Sir John Shore, 1st Baronet, previously Governor-General of India. He had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1794. The titles became extinct in 1981 on the death of the seventh Baron.
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