The London Gazette 29924. Whitehall, January 30, 1917. The KING has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to confer the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom upon Sir Thomas Roe (age 84), Knight, and the heirs male of his body law fully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Roe, of the borough of Derby.