Earl of Darlington

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Earl of Darlington was a British title of nobility in the Peerage of Great Britain . It was created once for life ( Life Peerage ) and once as a hereditary title ( Hereditary Peerage ).

Awards and other titles

On April 6, 1722 Title lifetime for was Sophia Charlotte Kielmansegg , nee von Platen-Hallermund, an illegitimate half-sister of King I. George created. Together with the Earldom she was, also in the Peerage of Great Britain, the subordinate title Baroness of Brentford bestowed. As early as September 11, 1721, she had been raised in the Peerage of Ireland to Countess of Leinster . All titles were awarded to her for life and thus expired on her death on April 20, 1725.

On April 3, 1754, the title Earl of Darlington , in the County of Durham , was bestowed as a hereditary title to Henry Vane, 3rd Baron Barnard , along with the subordinate title of Viscount Barnard , of Barnard Castle in the County of Durham. As early as 1753 he inherited the title Baron Barnard , created for his grandfather in 1698 in the Peerage of England, from his father . His grandson, the 3rd Earl, was raised to Marquess of Cleveland on September 17, 1827 and Duke of Cleveland and Baron Raby , of Raby Castle in the County of Durham, on January 29, 1833 . The last three titles belonged to the Peerage of the United Kingdom . All three sons of the 1st duke died childless, so that when the youngest of them, the 4th duke, died in 1891, all his titles were extinguished, with the exception of the barony of Barnard, which fell to a distant relative.

List of the Earls of Darlington

Earls of Darlington (Life Peerage, 1722)

Earls of Darlington (1754)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 18397, p. 1955 , September 18, 1827.
  2. ^ The London Gazette: 19013, 97 , January 15, 1833.

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