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The viscountcy is the last remaining hereditary peerage created for a former Speaker ; all Speakers of the Commons after the 1st Viscount either received life peerages, died in office, or died without issue.
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viscountcy and is
A viscount is said to hold a " viscountship " or " viscounty ", or ( more as the area of his jurisdiction ) a " viscountcy ".
The peer's heir apparent will sometimes be referred to as a viscount, if the second most senior title held by the head of the family is a viscountcy.
The viscountcy is used as the courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom.
An uninhabited stellar system containing a planet that can be terraformed is deemed a viscountcy.
Thurso is also the name of the viscountcy held by the Sinclair family in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
* 81 Viscounts of the United Kingdom and of Ireland created after 1801 ( ordered according to date of creation ; excepting the viscountcy of Stansgate, which is presently disclaimed by Tony Benn, who ranks as a Privy Counsellor )
Since 1889 it is a subsidiary title of the viscountcy of Cobham.
Lord Chandos is also in remainder to the viscountcy of Cobham and its subsidiary titles the barony of Cobham, the barony of Lyttelton, the barony of Westcote and the baronetcy of Frankley.
Viscount Hereford is the oldest extant viscountcy in the Peerage of England, making the holder the Premier Viscount of England.
The viscountcy of Hereford is the senior viscountcy in the Peerage of England.
As Lord Townshend holds no titles with names different from his main title, the territorial designation from his viscountcy is used for his heir, who is styled Viscount Raynham.
The heir presumptive to the earldom of Abergavenny and viscountcy of Nevill is David Michael Ralph Nevill ( b. 1941 ).
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the viscountcy is: Azure a crescent between three mullets argent.
The viscountcy is used as the courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom.
The viscountcy is used as a courtesy title for the Earl's eldest son and heir apparent.
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the viscountcy is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a cross patonce or ( for Ward ); 2nd and 3rd, gules, three cinquefoils ermine, on a chief of the second a man's heart of the first ( for Hamilton ).
As a grandson of the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary title the viscountcy of Gwynedd.
As a descendant of the first Viscount Chichester he is in remainder to the barony and viscountcy of Chichester and, according to a special patent in the letters patent, the earldom of Donegall, titles held by his kinsman the Marquess of Donegall.
The title of the baronetcy, barony and viscountcy, Combermere, is pronounced " Cumbermeer ".
The heir presumptive to the barony and viscountcy of Mersey is the present holder's uncle the Hon.
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the viscountcy is: Gules, a lion rampant or armed and langued azure between eight crescents in orle of the second.
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the viscountcy is: Gules, two bars and a chief indented or.
There is no heir to the viscountcy.
viscountcy and last
The last Speaker to receive a viscountcy was George Thomas, who became Viscount Tonypandy upon his retirement in 1983.
Standish Vereker was the brother of Field Marshal The Lord Gort, who had been the sixth Viscount of the Irish peerage and the first and last Viscount of the United Kingdom peerage ; Standish inherited the Irish viscountcy and barony in 1946.
viscountcy and hereditary
The one hereditary viscountcy Cromwell created ( making Charles Howard Viscount Howard of Morpeth and Baron Gilsland ) continues to this day.
Owing to the Labour government's House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic link between hereditary peerages and the right to sit in the House of Lords, it was not necessary for the 3rd Viscount to disclaim his viscountcy to remain as an MP.
The earldom of Stockton and viscountcy of Macmillan of Ovenden were the most recent hereditary peerages created for someone other than a member of the Royal Family, and are the only surviving non-Royal peerages created since 1965.
On his death in 2001 the life peerage became extinct while he was succeeded in the hereditary barony and viscountcy by his son, the third Viscount.
the baronetcy and viscountcy are held by his son, the fifth Viscount, who succeeded in 2003, and who joined the House of Lords as an elected hereditary peer.
He was Britain's second highest legal officer, the Solicitor General, he also later held the office of Lord Chancellor for two years, thereafter ; he was created an hereditary peer with a viscountcy.
He succeeded in the viscountcy following his father's death in 1976 and originally sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords until 1999, when he and most other hereditary peers were removed from the House under the House of Lords Act 1999.
viscountcy and peerage
He had not sought the advancement in the peerage, but wished to accept the King's offer of the Garter, for which, at that time, a viscountcy was considered an insufficient rank.
Stansgate died at Westminster, London, in November 1960, aged 83, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his second son, Tony Benn, who in 1963 succeeded in getting the law changed to allow him to disclaim the peerage.
A viscountcy with the same title as the Irish peerage was then conferred in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to a later Lord Gort.
As his father was still alive at the time of the creation of the viscountcy the title of this peerage was Runciman of Doxford rather than simply Runciman.
As a descendant of the second Earl of Hopetoun he is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles the viscountcy of Aithrie and lordship of Hope, which are now held by his kinsman the Marquess of Linlithgow.
The viscountcy in the English peerage died with him ; the Irish barony passed to the younger branch of his brother's family, for whom the viscountcy was re-created in 1868.
viscountcy and created
He was created a life peer as Baron Younger of Prestwick of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick on 7 July 1992, five years before succeeding to the viscountcy.
* Field Marshal Sir Julian Byng, who played an important role in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, was created Baron Byng of Vimy in 1919 and was later promoted to a viscountcy.
The viscountcy of Cobham and its junior title the barony of Cobham were created with remainder, failing male issue, to ( 1 ) Lord Cobham's eldest sister Hester Grenville ( who succeeded as second Viscountess in 1749 and was created Earl Temple in 1750 ) and the heirs male of her body and ( 2 ) to his third sister Christian, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.
In contrast to the barony the viscountcy and earldom were created with remainder, in default of male issue, to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet of Hursley Park, and her issue male.
In 1794 he had been created Baron Bridport in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to his great-nephew Samuel Hood, the second son of the second Viscount Hood, who succeeded to the barony on Lord Bridport's death in 1814 while the viscountcy became extinct.
Lord Clancarty had already been created a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in c. 1638, before he succeeded in the viscountcy.
It was firstly created for the English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon ( who was later created Viscount St Albans ), and secondly created for James Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston ( whose viscountcy was in the Peerage of Ireland ).
In 1860 the viscountcy of Ednam and earldom of Dudley were revived when he was created Viscount Ednam, of Ednam in the County of Roxburgh, and Earl of Dudley, of Dudley Castle in the County of Stafford.
A year later, his kinsman Sir Francis Annesley, 1st Baronet, was given a " reversionary grant " of the viscountcy, which stated that on Power's death Annesley would be created Viscount Valentia.
The latter year he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Doneraile and in 1785 the viscountcy was revived and he was created Viscount Doneraile, also in the Peerage of Ireland.
The viscountcy was revived in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1884 when the Liberal politician and former Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Henry Brand, was created Viscount Hampden, of Glynde in the County of Sussex.
On 29 January 1956, two years before he succeeded his elder brother in the viscountcy, he was created a baronet, of Newick.
It was created first in 1662 in the Peerage of Ireland along with the viscountcy of Dungannon.
In 1721, he was rewarded by King George I with a viscountcy, being created Viscount Torrington.
The English title was created in 1616 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere ; however, he died a year later and the viscountcy merged with the earldom of Bridgewater, which had been meant for Egerton, but he died before he could receive it.
This was a revival of the viscountcy of Goderich created for his great-great-grandfather the Duke of Kent in 1706.
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