Viscount Rhondda
Viscount Rhondda , of Llanwern in the County of Monmouth , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
Award
The title was created on June 19, 1918 for the Welsh businessman and liberal politician David Thomas, 1st Baron Rhondda . He had already been awarded the subordinate title Baron Rhondda , of Llanwern in the County of Monmouth, on January 28, 1916 . Since the 1st Viscount had no sons, he was awarded the Viscountcy with the special addition that this title could also be passed on to his daughter Margaret and her male descendants in the absence of male descendants . The barony was awarded with no appropriate addition and expired on his death on July 3, 1918, while the Viscountcy fell to his daughter as the 2nd Viscountess. The Viscountess gained notoriety as a suffragette , and her title finally expired when she died childless on July 20, 1958.
List of Viscounts Rhondda (1918)
- David Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda (1856–1918)
- Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958)