Viscount Cobham

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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham

Viscount Cobham is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain , named after the village of Cobham in Kent .

The Viscount family residence is Hagley Hall near Hagley in Worcestershire .

Award, subordinate and other titles

The title was bestowed on May 23, 1718 by King George I on Richard Temple, 1st Baron Cobham . He was a successful troop leader in the War of the Spanish Succession and a longstanding member of the House of Commons . Along with the Viscount , he was given the subordinate title Baron Cobham , of Cobham in the County of Kent. Since the 1st Viscount had no children, both titles were awarded with the special addition that, in the absence of male descendants, the title was also given to his sister Hester , wife of Richard Grenville, and their male descendants and, in their absence, to his sister Christian , Wife of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet, and their male descendants.

The 1st Viscount had already been raised to Baron Cobham , of Cobham in the County of Kent, on October 19, 1714 in the Peerage of Great Britain . This title was bestowed without any special inheritance regulation and therefore expired on his childless death on September 14th, 1749. As early as 1697 he had inherited the title of 4th Baronet , of Stowe in the County of Buckingham , from his father on September 24th, 1611 had been bestowed on his great-great-grandfather Thomas Temple in the Baronetage of England. With the death of the 1st Viscount, this title passed to a distant relative in male succession and has been suspended since 1786.

According to the above inheritance regulation, the Viscount dignity and the barony of Cobham fell from 1718 when the 1st Viscount died childless in 1749 to his sister Hester as 2nd Viscountess. This was also awarded the Countess Temple Earl dignity on October 18, 1749 in the Peerage of Great Britain . When her son Richard Grenville inherited her in 1752 as 2nd Earl Temple, he added his family name to Grenville-Temple .

His nephew, the 3rd Earl Temple , was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland twice and was raised to Marquess of Buckingham in the Peerage of Great Britain on December 4, 1784 . In addition, in 1788 he became general heir to his father-in-law Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent and, due to a special succession regulation, inherited his title as 2nd Earl Nugent , created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776 , whereupon he added his family name to Nugent-Temple-Grenville .

His son, the 2nd Marquess , became the general heir to his father-in-law James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos († 1789) and therefore added his family name to Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville in 1799 , a rarity even among British nobles. On February 4, 1822, he was elevated to Duke of Buckingham and Chandos , Marquess of Chandos and Earl Temple of Stowe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The latter earliest dignity was awarded with the special addition that, in the absence of male descendants, it could also be passed on to the male descendants of his deceased great-grandmother Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple, and, after this line became extinct, to his granddaughter, Lady Anna Eliza Grenville, daughter his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, and their male descendants. After this line became extinct, it was again possible to bequeath it to younger sisters of Lady Anna Eliza Grenville and their male descendants who were still unborn at the time, although she ultimately had no other sister.

His grandson, the 3rd Duke , achieved in 1868 that the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords also confirmed the title of 10th Lord Kinloss , created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1602 , to which his paternal grandmother and her father James Brydges, 3rd . Duke of Chandos de iure had been entitled. Since he had no sons, on his death on March 26, 1889 the titles 8th Viscount Cobham and 9th Baron Cobham fell to his distant relative Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton , a descendant of Christian Lyttelton, the youngest sister of 1. Viscounts. The title Earl Temple of Stowe fell in the female line to William Temple-Gore-Langton as 4th Earl, the title Lord Kinloss fell in the female line to Mary Morgan as the 11th Lady, the Dukedom and the other titles expired.

The 8th Viscount had already in 1876 by his father the title of 5th Baron Westcote , of Ballymore in the County of Longford , created in 1776 in the Peerage of Ireland , the title of 5th Baron Lyttelton , of Frankley in 1794 in the Peerage of Great Britain the County of Worcester , and the title of 10th Baronet, of Frankley in the County of Worcester, created in the Baronetage of England in 1618. Since then, these have been subordinate to the Viscountcy.

List of Viscounts Cobham and Temple Baronets, of Stowe

Temple Baronets, of Stowe (1611)

Viscounts Cobham (1718)

The heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current viscount, Hon. Oliver Lyttelton Christopher (born 1976).

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