Viscount Caldecote, of Bristol in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1939 for the lawyer and politician Sir Thomas Inskip

Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote CBE, PC, KC was a British politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940...

 so that he could sit in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 and serve as Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

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. the title is held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1999.

Lord Caldecote's elder half-brother the Right Reverend James Inskip was a clergyman while his younger brother Sir John Hampden Inskip (1879–1960) was Lord Mayor of Bristol in 1931.

Viscounts Caldecote (1939)

• Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
  Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
  Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote CBE, PC, KC was a British politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940...
  
   (1876–1947)
• Robert Andrew Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote
  Robert Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote
  Robert Andrew Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote was a 20th century British peer and eminent engineer. The son of Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, he succeeded to the Viscountcy on the death of his father. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he served in the RNVR during World War...
  
   (1917–1999)
• Piers James Hampden Inskip, 3rd Viscount Caldecote (b. 1947)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. Thomas James Inskip (b. 1985)