Earl of Pomfret
Earl of Pomfret was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain .
The name of the title refers to Pontefract or Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire . The Earls' family seat was Easton Neston near Towcester in Northamptonshire .
Award and expiration
The title was created on December 27, 1721 for Thomas Fermor, 2nd Baron Leominster . Already in 1711 he had inherited the titles of 2nd Baron Leominster , Leominster in the County of Hereford , and 3rd Baronet , of Easton Neston in the County of Northampton, from his father . The former was on April 12, 1692 in the Peerage of England to his father William Fermor (1648-1711), the latter on September 6, 1641 in the Baronage of England to his grandfather William Fermor (1619-1661).
All three titles expired on the childless death of his great-grandson, the 5th Earl, on June 8, 1867.
List of the Earls of Pomfret (1721)
- Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret (1698–1753)
- George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (1722–1785)
- George Fermor, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (1768-1830)
- Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret (1770–1833)
- George Fermor, 5th Earl of Pomfret (1824–1867)
Web links
- Pomfret, Earl of (GB, 1721-1867) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Peerage: Pomfret at Leigh Rayment's Peerage ( Memento from October 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )