Earl of Kilmuir

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Earl of Kilmuir was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on July 20, 1962 for the lawyer and politician David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Viscount Kilmuir , on the occasion of his resignation from the office of Lord Chancellor .

Along with the earliest dignity, he was given the subordinate title Baron Fyfe of Dornoch , of Dornoch in the County of Sutherland . As early as October 19, 1954, he was given the subordinate title Viscount Kilmuir , of Creich in the County of Sutherland. Both titles also belonged to the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Since the 1st Earl left no sons, the titles expired on his death on January 27, 1967.

List of Earls of Kilmuir (1962)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The London Gazette : Supplement No. 142740, p. 5909 , July 24, 1962.

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