William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.

Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O ’ Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment.

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

* The right wing, composed of knights of Champagne and Burgundy, was commanded by the Duke of Burgundy Eudes and his lieutenants: III Gaucher de Châtillon Count of Saint-Pol, Count Wilhelm I of Sancerre, Count of Beaumont and Mathieu de Montmorency and Adam II Viscount of Melun.

Coat of arms of the Earl Attlee | Earls Attlee He retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.

However, states that he was instigated by Viscount Ji Huan to invade the Lu capital in an attempt to avoid dismanteling the Bi fortified walls.

He left the state of Lu without resigning, remaining in self-exile and unable to return as long as Viscount Ji Huan was alive.

On 18 October, he was created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

The young peer was styled Viscount Bulbeck and raised in the Protestant Reformed Faith.

On 30 November 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, Viscount of Formartine and Earl of Aberdeen.

In 1815 he was created Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618 and the Viscount St. Alban in 1621 ; as he died without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death.

Bacon continued to use his influence with the king to mediate between the throne and Parliament and in this capacity he was further elevated in the same peerage, as Viscount St Alban, on 27 January 1621.

In 1682 he was made Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and was created, on 13 November, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formartine, and Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves and Kellie, in the Scottish peerage, being appointed also Sheriff Principal of Aberdeenshire and Midlothian.

He lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795 and was brought up by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Returning home he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen ( 1814 ), and made a member of the Privy Council.

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883 – 1963 ), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral

* 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral ( d. 1786 )

* 1731 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan English admiral ( d. 1804 )

* 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1823 )

* January 23 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral ( b. 1757 )

* April 9 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral ( d. 1833 )

** Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral ( d. 1805 )

* January 27 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral ( b. 1724 )

* October 2 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral ( b. 1725 )

* April 25 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral ( d. 1786 )

* December 12 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral ( d. 1816 )

The name was changed in 1814 to Nelson in honor of Viscount Horatio Nelson, British admiral and naval hero.

* Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral

Viscount was a samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate who fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War.

Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan ( 1 July 1731 – 4 August 1804 ) was a British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown ( north of Haarlem ) on 11 October 1797.

* Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ( 1724 – 1816 ), British admiral

Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope KT, GCB, OM, DSO and two Bars ( 7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963 ), was a British admiral of the Second World War.

George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB ( 7 January 1746 – 10 March 1823 ) was a British admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

* Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown ( 1731 – 1804 ), British admiral

* Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel ( 1725-1786 ), a British admiral

* Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ( 1758 – 1805 ), British admiral

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British World War II admiral

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War.

* 12 June-Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord ( died 1883 ).