* 1964-65: The Viscountess Davidson

Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, wife of the first Viscount, succeeded her husband as Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead in 1937, and held the seat until 1959.

Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson, daughter of the first Baron, was a Conservative Member of Parliament and was given a life peerage as Baroness Northchurch in 1964.

His wife Frances, Viscountess Davidson, succeeded him as MP for Hemel Hempstead.

He was succeeded as MP by his wife, Frances, Viscountess Davidson ( see below ).

Frances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson DBE ( 29 May 1894 – 25 November 1985 ), styled Lady Davidson between 1935 and 1937 and as Viscountess Davidson between 1937 and 1985, was a British Conservative Party politician.

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The cinema was opened on 9 May 1938 by Viscountess Davidson, and the first screening was the film Heidi, starring Shirley Temple.

He died of natural causes, aged 81, in 1999, survived by his wife of 56 years, Celia, Viscountess Whitelaw of Penrith ( born 1 January 1917 – 5 December 2011 ), a World War II ATS, volunteer, philanthropist / charity worker and horticulturist.

However, she was never the Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage ; hence, she is known to history as Lady Caroline Lamb.

His wife, Cecil Mary Nowell Dering Tupper ( Viscountess Craigavon ; died 1960 ), whom he married on 22 March 1905 after a very brief courtship, was English, the daughter of Sir Daniel Tupper, assistant comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's department of the king's household.

Styled Viscountess Anson in 1806, Anne Margaret Coke Anson died in London in 1843 and was buried at Shugborough.

The Viscountess Melville later remarried and died in June 1829.

The Viscountess Sydney died in May 1826, aged 90.

He married Aileen Robertson in 1926 ( died 1993 ), later Viscountess Slim, by whom he had one son and one daughter.

Mary, Viscountess Dilhorne died in Oxfordshire on 25 March 2004 at age 93.

The Viscountess Brentford died in January 1952.

( died 1274 ), married Jeanne de Châtellerault, Viscountess of Châtellerault.

When Rhondda died in 1918 the House of Lords refused to allow Margaret, now the Viscountess Rhondda, to take her seat.

The Viscountess Bridgeman died in December 1961.

He sold the family estate in Devon in the 1970s and moved to Switzerland where he died in 1989 and Patsy, Viscountess Lambert, died in 1991.

Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield ( 11 November 1792 – 15 December 1872 ) was a British peeress and society figure, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

The Viscountess went back to Staffordshire where, in November 1565, she gave birth to Robert, later 2nd Earl of Essex.

Domitila ( or Domitília ) de Castro do Canto e Melo ( São Paulo, December 27, 1797 — São Paulo, November 3, 1867 ), 1st Viscountess with designation as a Grandee, then 1st Marchioness of Santos, was a Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Dom Pedro I.

Ethel became Viscountess Snowden on 24 November 1931.

On 10 October 1371, he married Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine ( d. Argentan 18 November 1425 ).

About 1134 he seized the viscounty of Narbonne, only restoring it to the Viscountess Ermengarde ( d. 1197 ) in 1143.

* 1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher ( d. 1679 )

* Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon ( 19 October 1755-20 July 1780 ), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774 ; three children, including the traveler and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope.

* May 2 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician ( b. 1879 )

** Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin ( d. 1970 )

** Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician ( d. 1964 )

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

The Queen rarely visited her, although Elizabeth's daughter Viscountess Welles is known to have done so more often.

Married in 1259 Jeanne, Viscountess of Châtellerault, by whom he had issue.

Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, ( 19 May 18792 May 1964 ) was the first woman to sit as a Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the British House of Commons.

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor.

It was as in recognition of his services to the nation that Queen Victoria made Mary Anne a peeress in her own right, Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, as Benjamin wished to remain in the House of Commons.

Macmillan was in close friendship in old age with Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley, née Bodley ( 1896 – 1973 ), the widow of John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley.

* Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ( May 19, 1879 – May 2, 1964 ) was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the British House of Commons.

Alice, Dowager Countess of Derby was also Dowager Viscountess Brackley.

She wears the coronet of a Countess, not a Viscountess, and at the foot of her tomb is a coroneted eagle, a reminder of the Stanleys ' armorial crest.

Sophie's style and title in full: Her Royal Highness The Princess Edward Antony Richard Louis, Countess of Wessex, Viscountess Severn, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

The Cliveden Set were a 1930s right-wing, upper class group of prominent individuals politically influential in pre-World War II Britain, who were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor.

At this hangout of the wealthy elite, George Gershwin often played impromptu piano for wealthy guests such as Reggie Vanderbilt, Harry Payne Whitney, or Walter Chrysler, and celebrities such as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Pola Negri, Al Jolson, Jeanne Eagels, Gloria Swanson, John Gilbert, Clara Bow, Hope Hampton, Irving Berlin, John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Leatrice Joy and Rudolph Valentino, as well as socialites such as Gloria Morgan and her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness.

After the death of W H Smith the younger, his widow was created Viscountess Hambleden in her own right ; their son inherited the business from his father and the Viscountcy from his mother.

Through his father's mother, Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, Guildford descended from the Hundred Years War heroes, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.