Viscount Longueville
Viscount Longueville was a hereditary British title of nobility , which was awarded once in the Peerage of England and in the Peerage of Ireland .
Awards
For the first time the title Viscount (de) Longueville was bestowed on April 21, 1690 in the Peerage of England to Henry Yelverton, 14th Baron Gray de Ruthyn . He had inherited the title of 15th Baron Gray de Ruthyn in 1679 . His son, the 2nd Viscount, was also elevated to Earl of Sussex on September 26, 1717 in the Peerage of Great Britain . When his grandson, the 3rd Earl, died on April 22, 1799, the Earldom and the Viscountcy became extinct. The barony fell to the son of his daughter as the 19th Baron Gray de Ruthyn.
In the second award on December 29, 1800 in the Peerage of Ireland the title Viscount Longueville , of Longueville in the County of Cork , was bestowed on the former MP in the Irish House of Commons Richard Longfield, 1st Baron Longueville . This had already been raised on October 1, 1795 in the Peerage of Ireland to Baron Longueville , of Longueville in the County of Cork. Both titles expired on his childless death on May 23, 1811.
List of Viscounts Longueville
Viscounts Longueville, first bestowed (1690)
- Henry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Longueville (1664–1704)
- Talbot Yelverton, 1st Earl of Sussex , 2nd Viscount Longueville (1690–1731)
- George Yelverton, 2nd Earl of Sussex , 3rd Viscount Longueville (1727–1758)
- Henry Yelverton, 3rd Earl of Sussex , 4th Viscount Longueville (1728–1799)
Viscounts Longueville, second award (1800)
- Richard Longfield, 1st Viscount Longueville (1734-1811)
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette : 2550, p. 2 , April 17, 1690.
- ^ The London Gazette: No. 15326, p. 40 , January 6, 1801.
- ^ The London Gazette: 13821, 1052 , October 10, 1795.
Web links
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- de Longueville, Viscount (E, 1690-1799) at Cracroft's Peerage