In 1568 the property was leased to the Viscount Barrymore and in 1584 the lease was transferred to Nicholas Walsh, Justice of Munster.
Byng returned to Britain at the end of the year and was raised to the rank of Viscount as an expression of confidence in him.
Charity Girl revolves around the character of the wealthy, athletic Viscount Ashley Desford and his mission to save "charity girl" Charity Steane from a life with her uncaring relatives.
Charles Alexandre, vicomte de Calonne (20 January 1734, Douai – 30 October 1802) was a French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.
Viscount (This title only exists in the Kingdom of Belgium.)
A maid for the Viscount Kuroe is attempting to locate her patron in his large manor stumbled across a bottomless hole to nowhere, from which comes a cat boy.
He was a son of Francisco António do Amaral Dias, a Medical Doctor, and wife Maria Isabel Charters Lopes Vieira da Câmara de Oliveira (b. 1904), related to the 1st Viscounts of São Sebastião.
He was the only son of Francisco Coelho do Amaral Reis, 1st Viscount of Pedralva by Carlos I of Portugal in 1904 (Sátão, Águas Boas, 3 August 1873 – 5 April 1938), 100th Governor of Portuguese Angola from 1920 to 1921, son of José Caetano dos Reis and wife Lucrécia Coelho do Amaral, and first wife, as her second husband, Guida Maria Josefina Cinatti Keil, daughter of Alfredo Cristiano Keil and wife Cleyde Maria Margarida Cinatti.
During the 10th century the Limousin was divided in many seigneuries; the most important among them, located in the southern part of the region, were the vicomtés of Limoges, Comborn (in the present-day Corrèze), Ventadour (today Ussel and Plateau de Millevaches) and Turenne.
It was caused when the sitting Member, Osbert Peake, was awarded a Viscountcy in the New Year's Honours list (he took the title Viscount Ingleby).
His father was a typographer and a monarchist who had close connections to Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, the Viscount of Ouro Preto, who would later become Lima Barreto's godfather.
Louis Étienne Arthur du Breuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière (1816-23 December 1875) was a French politician and aristocrat, the member of a notable Poitou family.
Born in Kōjimachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo Saneatsu was the eighth son of Viscount Mushanokōji Saneyo, who died when Saneatsu was age two.
The novel opens on Henry as a boy – the supposedly illegitimate (and eventually orphaned) son of Thomas, the third Viscount Castlewood, and cousin of the Jacobite fourth viscount, Francis, and his wife, the Lady Castlewood.
The word viscount, known to be used in English since 1387, comes from Old French visconte (modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin vicecomitem, accusative of vicecomes, from Late Latin vice- "deputy" + Latin comes (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count).
Stafford was attainted and the family lost the title; the title of Baron Stafford was returned to the Howard line in 1824 with the attainder being reversed but the title of Viscount was extinct as there were no male heirs.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Viscount | Vickers Viscount | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | viscount | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham | William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy | Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor | James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon | Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe | Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford | Viscount Falkland | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood | John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley | James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon | William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford | William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington | Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere | Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill | Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted | John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway |
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris (1744–1816), British peer, succeeded as 8th Viscount Valentia
John, 2nd Viscount Savage, became Viscount Colchester and Earl Rivers, with 1613 barony, in 1640
In 1844 he was created Viscount Southam, of Southam in the County of Gloucester, and Earl of Ellenborough, in the County of Cumberland.
William Howard was the 1st Viscount of Stafford in the 17th century, and owned the land on which the current school is built.
Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.
Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (1818–1881), aka Viscount Campden, British peer and Whig politician
General Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, G.C.H., PC, PC (Ire) (17 March 1753 – 5 September 1829), styled Viscount Petersham until 1779, was a British soldier.
Halifax was a collector of ghost stories, many of which are to be found in Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book (ISBN 1-55521-123-2) and The Ghost Book of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax (ISBN 978-0-7867-0151-3).
The present Viscount of Arbuthnott and chief of Clan Arbuthnott has been awarded both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Order of the British Empire.
On 27 October 1972, Air Inter Flight 696, Vickers Viscount 724 F-BMCH, en route from Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand, crashed 4 km west of Noirétable during bad weather; 60 on board died, 8 survived.
In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, and in 1964 he was created Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire.
Eble III of Ventadorn was viscount of Ventadour (Corrèze, France).
Eble V of Ventadorn was viscount of Ventadour (Corrèze, France).
On 9 November 1959, Lilley was one of four Scottish MPs on a British European Airways Viscount which was involved in a near miss with a Royal Air Force Pembroke transport.
General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle KG PC (London, 8 April 1724 – 13 October 1772), styled Viscount Bury until 1754, was a British soldier nobleman best known for his capture of Havana in 1762 during the Seven Years' War.
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845–1914), also known as Viscount Melgund, British politician, Governor General of Canada, and Viceroy of India
The title of Viscount of Guignen had been the property of the House of Rohan since the 15th century.
Henry II (Occitan: Enric II de Rodés) (c. 1236–1304), of the House of Millau, was the Count of Rodez and Viscount of Carlat from 1274 until his death.
Major Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener DL TD (24 February 1919 – 16 December 2011), styled Viscount Broome from 1928 to 1937, was a British peer.
Henry Nugent, Count of Valdesoto and Viscount Coolamber (died November 1704) was an Irish military man.
Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris - May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley, was a French nobleman, soldier and politician.
James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth (1616–1661), devoted Scottish Royalist who was raised to the peerage of Scotland as Viscount Kilsyth and Lord Campsie in 1661
The son of Captain William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, in turn son of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, and the Honourable Grace Ridley, Lord Selborne succeeded to his grandfather's titles in 1971.
He succeeded to the titles of 6th Viscount Allen, County Kildare, and 6th Baron Allen of Stillorgan, on 1 February 1816.
(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)
On 10 February she was married at Castle Ashby to John Hume Cust, viscount Alford, elder son of John Cust, first Earl Brownlow, and the heir to a portion of the large estates of Francis Egerton, third and last Duke of Bridgewater.
# Robert of Alençon (1344–1377), Count of Perche, married 5 April 1374 Jeanne, daughter of Viscount John I of Rohan
On 18 March 1664, Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland was created Baron Bruce, of Skelton in the County of York, Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, and Earl of Ailesbury, in the County of Buckingham, all in the Peerage of England.
The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Viscount James Bryce, who was President of the Alpine Club in London at the time.
Ogasawara Naganari succeeded his grandfather to become head of the Ogasawara clan in 1873, and as viscount (shishaku) under the kazoku peerage system.
During the reign of King Henry VIII, it belonged to Thomas Boleyn, then viscount Rochford, and it was the marital home of his daughter Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Anne Boleyn, and Mary's second husband, Sir William Stafford.
This 12th-century priory is one of the best-preserved of the 160 Grandmontine monasteries, a religious order, founded by Étienne of Thiers, son of Viscount of Thiers from the Auvergne).
The Viscount Medardo of Terralba, and his squire Kurt, ride across the plague-ravaged plain of Bohemia en route to join the Christian army in the Turkish wars of the seventeenth century.
Known by the courtesy title Viscount Weymouth from birth, he was born at The Stable Yard, St James's, London, the eldest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, by the Honourable Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey, daughter of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci.
His son, Sir William Forwood, chairman of Liverpool Overhead Railway, let the house to William Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme), builder of the soap factory and model village at Port Sunlight, in 1888.
Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow (d. 1752) (created Viscount Ashbrook in 1751)
His great-great-grandson, the eighth Viscount, served as managing director of the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire during the First World War.
His son, the second Viscount, notably served as High Commissioner to Fiji and as Governor of Bermuda.
His son, the ninth Viscount, married Maria Luisa Urquijoy y Losada, Marquesa de Olias, a title created by Philip IV in the Peerage of Spain in 1652.
Sir Rowland Hill, 4th Baronet (1800–1875) (succeeded as 2nd Viscount Hill in 1842)
However, Addington refused the honour and chose to remain in the House of Commons until 1805, when he joined William Pitt the Younger's government as Lord President of the Council with the lesser title of Viscount Sidmouth.
A successful lawyer, he married Maud Bourke, daughter of Viscount Mayo and great-great granddaughter of the Pirate Queen, Granuaile (Gráinne O'Malley 1530–1603).
William was excommunicated a second time for "abducting" the Viscountess Dangerose (Dangerosa), the wife of his vassal Aimery I de Rochefoucauld, Viscount of Châtellerault.
Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal PC GCMG DSO MVO (9 April 1885 – 6 May 1949) was a British politician.