Viscount Pevensey

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Viscount Pevensey was a hereditary British title of nobility that was created once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of Ireland .

Award, subordinate and other titles

For the first time the title was bestowed on May 14, 1730, the Lord President of the Council and later Prime Minister Spencer Compton, 1st Baron Wilmington , along with the superior title Earl of Wilmington . As early as January 8, 1728 he had been given the title of Baron Wilmington , of Wilmington in the County of Sussex . The title expired when he died unmarried and childless on July 2, 1743.

In the second bestowal, the title was created on July 29, 1802 in the Peerage of Ireland for John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Baron Sheffield , together with the parent title Earl of Sheffield . He had already been raised to Baron Sheffield in 1781 and 1783 in the Peerage of Ireland and 1802 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The titles expired on the death of his grandson, the 3rd Earl, in 1909, with the exception of the Barony of 1783, which fell to Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley due to a special inheritance regulation .

List of Viscounts Pevensey

Viscounts Pevensey, first award (1730)

Viscounts Pevensey, second award (1812)

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