Earl of Darnley
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Earl of Darnley is a hereditary title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Scotland and once in the Peerage of Ireland.
Collegiate Church of Cobham, Kent
The Darnley Mausoleum in Cobham Woods, built in 1786 as ordered by the will of the 3rd Earl
Netherwood Manor at Thornbury, Herefordshire, current family seat
Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley, styled The Honourable Ivo Bligh until 1900, lord of the manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British nobleman, parliamentarian and cricketer.
Earl of Darnley
…Bligh, who became the seventeenth holder of the barony by writ of summons. He was succeeded in the Irish titles by his younger brother the 8th Earl. Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (1859–1927), younger brother of 7th Earl. A talented and successful cricketer who captained the English Test team, he met his Australian wife Florence…
Bligh pictured in about 1910