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A viscount or viscountess is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. The status and any domain held by a viscount is a viscounty.
The French general Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
Coronet of the 6th Viscount Clifden.
A peerage is a form of crown distinction, with peerages in the United Kingdom comprising both hereditary and lifetime titled appointments of various ranks, which form both a constituent part of the le
Viscount
…a hereditary one, an example of such being the viscounts in Bessin. The viscount was eventually replaced by bailiffs, and provosts. As a rank of the British peerage, it was first recorded in 1440, when John Beaumont was created Viscount Beaumont by King Henry VI. The word viscount corresponds in the UK to the…
Wax impression of a Great Seal of the Realm (that used 1953–2001), which is affixed to all letters patent creating new peerages
The House of Lords showing government, opposition and the cross benches
The Lord Speaker presiding from the woolsack
Alec Douglas-Home (c.1963), the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to serve from the House of Lords