Viscount Davidson

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Viscount Davidson , of Little Gaddesden in the County of Hertford , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Award

The title was created on June 11, 1937 for the conservative politician Sir JCC Davidson . He had been a Member of the House of Commons for 17 years and also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for several years .

Another title

The wife of the first Viscount Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson , was elected to succeed her husband in his constituency as a member of the House of Commons, of which she was a member until October 1959. In 1964 she was promoted to Life Peeress as Baroness Northchurch , of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex . The couple were thus one of the very few married couples who also had a seat in the House of Lords .

List of Viscounts Davidson (1937)

The heir ( Heir Apparent ) is the son of the current viscount, Hon. John Nicolas Alexander Davidson (born 1971).

Individual evidence

  1. The London Gazette : No. 34410, p. 4010 , June 22, 1937.

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