Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs. |
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He was made a viscount in 1946, and was Governor-General of Canada until 1952, when he became Churchill's Minister of Defence. |
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But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility. |
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Never again in Britain will someone have the right to make laws which affect the lives of ordinary families solely because their ancestor was a duke, an earl or a viscount. |
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The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively. |
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It is the prerogative of a viscount or a baron to make a person feel small, and of a baronet to extinguish him. |
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In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. |
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Each shire was administered by a royal official called a sheriff, who roughly had the same status as a Norman viscount. |
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On one side towered the Archbishop's Palace, and on the other, the Tour Mauresque, the palace of the viscount. |
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Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureaucracy. |
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William Whitelaw was created a hereditary viscount on the recommendation of Margaret Thatcher. |
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Subsequently, the disgraced viscount devoted himself to study and writing. |
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Hailed for saving his country from invasion, Duncan earned the title Viscount Duncan of Camperdown. |
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Had she picked a Lord, or a Viscount, or someone of standard to set her cap at then her father wouldn't have voiced a single complaint. |
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Mountbatten's title was therefore a courtesy one until he was ennobled in 1946 as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. |
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A direct descendant of Henry VII, Viscount Mountgarret was Eton and Sandhurst educated and a former captain in the Irish Guards. |
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Dundas, created Viscount Melville in 1802, put severe pressure on liberals while conceding some radical demands. |
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I am writing to tell you that your father, the Viscount, has died of the sweating sickness these three days past. |
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On returning to England in 1902 he was created Viscount Kitchener and was appointed commander in chief in India. |
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In the mid 19th century it was home to patriotic Viscount Palmerston, the oldest man ever to become Prime Minister. |
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At no time during the shoot was Viscount Severn directly in front of the Earl of Wessex. |
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Her children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, were at her side. |
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In fact, autonomy here is about choosing the right man, and not settling for the dullish Lord or Viscount or advertising executive waiting in the wings. |
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The four page boys listed in today's programme were Hugo Bertie, Viscount Aithrie, Charles Armstrong-Jones and Arthur Chatto. |
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By May 1940 the force consisted of ten divisions in three corps under the command of General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. |
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Upon the death of Viscount Welles on 9 February 1499, Cecily's grief is said to have been considerable. |
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It was separated from the Viscount of Labourd in 1177 by Richard the Lion Heart. |
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When Labourd was created in 1023 Bayonne was the capital and the Viscount resided there. |
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The former Speaker and Secretary of State for Wales George Thomas was created Viscount Tonypandy but died without male issue. |
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The Act resulted largely from the protests of one man, the Labour politician Tony Benn, then the 2nd Viscount Stansgate. |
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In 2001, John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso became the first British hereditary peer to be elected to the Commons and take his seat. |
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Viscount Hailsham, of Hailsham in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. |
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He was succeeded by his son, Quintin Hogg, who became the second Viscount, who was also a prominent lawyer and Conservative politician. |
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Viscount Hailsham was given a life peerage in 2015 as Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe, of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire. |
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Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the Lamb family. |
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In 1781, he was created Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, also in the Peerage of Ireland. |
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On his death, the titles passed to his younger brother, the third Viscount, who was a prominent diplomat. |
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The Honourable George Lamb, fourth and youngest son of the first Viscount, was also a politician. |
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Even though Viscount Meng Yi gave his word not to interfere with an attempt, he went back on his earlier promise to dismantle the walls. |
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He had made powerful enemies within the state, especially with Viscount Ji Huan, due to his successes so far. |
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In May 1643, Furness was occupied and plundered by a large Royalist force commanded by Richard Viscount Molyneux. |
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Nathaniel was in turn the second son of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. |
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From 1812 until his death in 1833, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth had his home at Bitton House, which was then called West Cliff House. |
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As well as the Viscounts Exmouth, Christow was the home of Lady Emma Mary Halsted, daughter of the 1st Viscount. |
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Her father was a Viscount, so Taylor married into the Catalan aristocracy. |
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Chris' Afghan hound Viscount Grant won best in show at Crufts in 1987 and the 54-year-old still judges and participates in dog shows. |
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From dabbling in Black Magick to working for the Pope, Evan Morgan, the last Viscount of Tredegar, led a remarkable life. |
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In February 1912 the British war minister, Viscount Haldane, came to Berlin to discuss possible limits to naval expansion. |
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In March 1199, Richard was in Limousin suppressing a revolt by Viscount Aimar V of Limoges. |
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The first was the Rebellion of the Stafford brothers and Viscount Lovell of 1486, which collapsed without fighting. |
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In April 1661, Howard was created Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, and Baron Dacre of Gillesland. |
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It was led by John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, also known as Graham of Claverhouse or Bonnie Dundee, who raised an army from Highland clans. |
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In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. |
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The talbot dog comes from the heraldry of the Talbot family, Marcher Lords of Shrewsbury and also from that of Viscount Hereford. |
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After leaving school Fawkes entered the service of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. |
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In 1618 he became chaplain to Viscount Doncaster, who was on an embassy to the princes of Germany. |
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His parents, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, were radical for their times. |
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He, along with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, contributed to the literary productions of the Club. |
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Rocknroll was previously married to Eliza Pearson, daughter of Viscount Cowdray. |
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On James's side, a modest force of 50 horsemen gathered by John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee was in town. |
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On 16 April 1689, John Graham of Claverhouse, recently made Viscount Dundee, raised the standard of the deposed James VII on the Dundee Law. |
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They joined forces with a rising in the south of Scotland under Viscount Kenmure. |
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In August 1876, Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords as Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden. |
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Strong named the strait in honour of Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, the Treasurer of the Navy who sponsored their journey. |
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Fleming was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from the second Viscount Rothermere because of her affair with the author. |
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In 1922, John Jacob Astor, son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. |
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John Douglas was born in Florence, Italy, the eldest son of Conservative politician Archibald Viscount Drumlanrig and Caroline Margaret Clayton. |
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The first service operated by the Vickers Viscount turboprop commenced on 20 February 1963 on the route from Cardiff via Bristol to Dublin. |
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On Armistice Day 1922, a memorial to the employees of the GWR who died during the war was unveiled by Viscount Churchill. |
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McClure's ship was trapped in the ice for three winters near Banks Island, at the western end of Viscount Melville Sound. |
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In May, Aimeri, Viscount of Thouars, who was chosen by John to be his seneschal in Anjou, attacked Tours in order to capture Arthur of Brittany. |
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Brotherson, 27, of Viscount Drive, was jailed in 2012 after a terrifying raid on the Hunter's Moon Pub in Hodge Hill. |
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In April 1827 Huskisson's mentor George Canning became Prime Minister, but died less than four months later and was succeeded by Viscount Goderich. |
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In 1960, the 1st Viscount died and Tony Benn inherited the title, automatically losing his seat in the House of Commons for the constituency of Bristol South East. |
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Late that year, the Lord President of the Council, Viscount Morley, brought the question of the communications with the French to the attention of the Cabinet. |
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The Tory administration led by Harley and the Viscount Bolingbroke persuaded the Queen to create twelve new Tory peers to force the treaty through. |
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Scotland had a reception of Roman law and partial codification through the works of the Institutional Writers, such as Viscount Stair and Baron Hume, among others. |
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His daughter Frances married John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck. |
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Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, served as Master of the Rolls. |
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On 20 April 1661 he was created by King Charles II Baron Granville, Viscount Granville and Earl of Bath and in 1663 was invested as a Privy Councillor. |
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In 1523 Marshal Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec resisted the Spaniards under Philibert of Chalon in the service of Charles V and lifted the siege of Bayonne. |
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On his retirement from politics he was made Viscount Tonypandy. |
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In 1947, British European Airways started a service between Edinburgh and London using Vickers Vikings followed by the Viscount and Vanguard series. |
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Furthermore, until the Reform Act 1832, underage MPs were seldom unseated, with Viscount Jocelyn being 18 when elected in the 1806 general election. |
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There was an inaugural ceremony on 28 June 1957 with Viscount Muirshiel, Secretary of State for Scotland of which some silent, colour footage survives. |
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Like Oscar Wilde, he was hounded by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, for his association with Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, one of Queensberry's sons. |
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He was briefly styled Viscount Drumlanrig following his father's succession in 1856, and on the latter's death in 1858 he inherited the Marquessate of Queensberry. |
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In July and August 1727, two matches were organised by stakeholders Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton. |
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On 28 June 1945, she married the second Viscount Rothermere. |
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At first Viscount Dundee had difficulty in raising many supporters. |
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These events led to an immediate downturn in the fortunes of the Tories, and Pope's friend, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, fled to France. |
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The statue displayed at the western courtyard on the other side of the Colonnade is that of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, another benefactor of Guy's Hospital. |
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When Confucius heard of the raid, he requested that Viscount Ji Huan allow the duke and his court to retreat to a stronghold on his palace grounds. |
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