Earl of Cork is a title in the Peerage of Ireland,held in conjunction with the Earldom of Orrery since 1753. It was created in 1620 for Richard Boyle,1st Baron Boyle. He had already been created Lord Boyle,Baron of Youghal,in the County of Cork,in 1616,and was made Viscount of Dungarvan,in the County of Waterford,at the same time he was given the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of Ireland.
Earl of Kingston is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1768 for Edward King,1st Viscount Kingston. The Earl holds the subsidiary titles Baron Kingston,of Rockingham in the County of Roscommon,Viscount Kingston,of Kingsborough in the County of Sligo,Baron Erris,of Boyle in the County of Roscommon,and Viscount Lorton,of Boyle in the County of Roscommon,also in the Peerage of Ireland. He is also a baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland. Between 1821 and 1869 the earls also held the title Baron Kingston,of Mitchelstown in the County of Cork,in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Earl of Limerick is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland,associated first with the Dongan family,then with the Pery family.
Earl of Donoughmore is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It is associated with the Hely-Hutchinson family. Paternally of Gaelic Irish descent with the original name of ÓhÉalaighthe,their ancestors had long lived in the County Cork area as allies of the Mac Cárthaigh clan;they lost out during the times of Oliver Cromwell. One branch of the family converted to the Anglican Church and after inheriting territories through his mother and adding "Hutchinson" to Hely,became the Earl of Donoughmore.
Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 5 February 1822 for Valentine Quin,1st Viscount Mount-Earl. Quin had already been created a Baronet,of Adare in County Limerick,in the Baronetage of Ireland,in 1781,Baron Adare,of Adare in the County of Limerick,on 31 July 1800,and Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816. He was made Viscount Adare in 1822 at the same time as he was given the earldom. The latter peerage titles were also in the Peerage of Ireland. The Quins were unusual among Irish landowning families in that era in being of Gaelic origin,although they married into Anglo-Irish families like the Widenhams of Kildimo and the Dawsons of Dublin.
Earl of Dudley,of Dudley Castle in the County of Stafford,is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,both times for members of the Ward family.
Baron Carrington is a title that has been created three times,once in the Peerage of England,once in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Viscount Midleton,of Midleton in the County of Cork,is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for Alan Brodrick,1st Baron Brodrick,the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and former Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He was created Baron Brodrick,of Midleton in the County of Cork,in 1715 in the same peerage. His grandson,the third Viscount,co-represented Ashburton then New Shoreham in the British House of Commons. His son,the fourth Viscount,sat similarly for Whitchurch for 22 years. In 1796 he was created Baron Brodrick,of Peper Harrow in the County of Surrey,in the Peerage of Great Britain,with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father,the third Viscount. On the death of his son,the fifth Viscount,this line of the family failed.
Viscount Clifden,of Gowran in the County of Kilkenny,Ireland,was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 12 January 1781 for James Agar,1st Baron Clifden. He had already been created Baron Clifden,of Gowran in the County of Kilkenny,in 1776,also in the Peerage of Ireland. The Viscounts also held the titles of Baron Mendip in the Peerage of Great Britain from 1802 to 1974 and Baron Dover from 1836 to 1899,when this title became extinct,and Baron Robartes from 1899 to 1974,when this title became extinct,the two latter titles which were in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The interrelated histories of the peerages follow below.
Baron Mount Temple was a title that was created twice in British history,both times in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came on 25 May 1880 when the Liberal politician the Honourable William Cowper-Temple was made Baron Mount Temple,of Mount Temple in the County of Sligo. He was born William Cowper,the second son of Peter Clavering-Cowper,5th Earl Cowper by his wife the Honourable Emily,sister of the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Emily married as her second husband the 3rd Viscount Palmerston,a man who would serve as British prime minister. Lord Palmerston,an Anglo-Irish peer,died in 1865 when the viscountcy and his junior title of Baron Temple,of Mount Temple,became extinct. Emily died 11 September 1869,leaving her second husband's estates,including Broadlands in Hampshire,to her second son,William,who thereupon adopted by royal licence the surname Cowper-Temple,in whose favour the Mount Temple title was revived in 1880. William was married to Georgina Tollemache.
William St John Fremantle Brodrick,1st Earl of Midleton,KP,PC,DL,styled as St John Brodrick until 1907 and as Viscount Midleton between 1907 and 1920,was a British Conservative and Irish Unionist Alliance politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1880 to 1906,as a government minister from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1900,and as a Cabinet minister from 1900 to 1905.
George Morgan Trefgarne,1st Baron Trefgarne,was a Welsh Liberal and later Labour politician,barrister,businessman and editor of the Daily Dispatch.
Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson,1st Baron Drumalbyn was a Scottish Tory and National Liberal politician.
Viscount Greenwood,of Holbourne in the County of London,was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the politician Thomas Hamar Greenwood,1st Baron Greenwood. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1920 to 1922. Greenwood had already been created a Baronet,of Onslow Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington,in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 February 1915,and Baron Greenwood,of Llanbister in the County of Radnor,in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,in 1929. His younger son,the 3rd Viscount,who succeeded his elder brother in 1998,was an actor. The titles became extinct on his death in 2003.
Baron Ponsonby,of Imokilly in County Cork,also referred to as Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly,in the County of Cork,was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1806 for the William Ponsonby,who had previously represented Cork City,Bandonbridge and Kilkenny in the Irish House of Commons and Kilkenny in the British House of Commons. A member of the influential Ponsonby family,he was the eldest son of the Honourable John Ponsonby,second son of Brabazon Ponsonby,1st Earl of Bessborough. His son,the second Baron,was a prominent diplomat and notably served as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and Austria. In 1839 he was created Viscount Ponsonby,of Imokilly in the County of Cork,in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was childless and the viscountcy became extinct on his death in 1855. He was succeeded in the barony by his nephew,the third Baron. He was the posthumous son of the Honourable Sir William Ponsonby,second son of the first Baron. Lord Ponsonby died childless and was succeeded by his first cousin,the fourth Baron. He was the son of the Right Reverend the Honourable Richard Ponsonby,third son of the first Baron. He died unmarried in 1866 when the barony became extinct.
Margery Greenwood,Viscountess Greenwood,known as Margo Greenwood,was a British aristocrat and the wife of Hamar Greenwood,1st Viscount Greenwood. Very politically active,she was known to frequent meetings of parliament in the House of Commons and took an active role in her husband's constituencies while he sat in Parliament for York. She also notably had an affair with Lloyd George.
Poppy Angela Delevingne is an English model,socialite and blogger.
Canadian peers and baronets exist in both the peerage of France recognized by the Monarch of Canada and the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Charles Hamar Delevingne is an English property developer and the father of Cara and Poppy Delevingne. He is the son of socialite Angela Delevingne and the grandson of the lawyer and politician The 1st Viscount Greenwood.
Angela Margo Hamar Delevingne was an English aristocrat and socialite. The daughter of Hamar Greenwood,1st Viscount Greenwood,she was a prominent debutante in the late 1920s and was presented at court in 1930. Somewhat rebellious in nature,she was pulled out from Slade School of Fine Art,where she had been studying to be a painter,by her mother due to her making "unconventional" life choices. As a teenager,she took a job at Foyles to prove her independence,to which the Evening Standard reported a story with the headline Peer's Daughter Works For A Living. As a member of the London social scene,she was courted by Francis Yeats-Brown before marrying Edward Dudley Delevingne,a divorcéand friend of Edward,Prince of Wales,much to the dismay of Lady Greenwood.
