Earl Kitchener
Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The title expired in 2011.
Bestowal, subordinate titles, and expiry
The title was bestowed on June 29, 1914, to Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum , along with the subordinate titles Viscount Broome , of Broome in the County of Kent, and Baron Denton , of Denton in the County of Kent .
On November 1, 1898, he was Baron Kitchener of Khartoum , of Aspall in the County of Suffolk , and on July 11, 1902, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum , of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk.
Since Kitchener had no children, the titles of the awards of 1902 and 1914 were bestowed with the special addition that at his death, in the absence of his own sons, the titles would also be given to any own daughters and their male descendants, as well as to his eldest brother in their absence Henry Kitchener and his male descendants and, in the event of their extinction, to his youngest brother Sir Frederick Kitchener (1858–1912) or his male descendants. The barony of 1898 was not provided with any special inheritance regulation and expired with the childless death of the 1st Earl on August 14, 1894. The Earldom and the other titles passed to his eldest brother and from this in 1937 to his grandson Henry Herbert Kitchener . With the childless death of this 3rd Earl on December 16, 2011, the titles expired. The male line of descendants of the 1st Earl's youngest brother had already died out in 1984.
List of Earls Kitchener (1914)
- Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916)
- Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener (1846–1937)
- Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener (1919-2011)
Literature and web links
- Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Eds.): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage . St Martin's Press, New York 1990.
- Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, Earl (UK, 1914 - 2011) at Cracroft's Peerage