Viscount Devonport, of Wittington in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1917 for the Liberal

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 politician and former Member of Parliament

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 for Devonport, Hudson Kearley, 1st Baron Devonport

Hudson Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport

Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport, PC, DL was a British grocer and politician. He founded the International Tea Company's Stores, became the first chairman of the Port of London Authority, and served as Minister of Food Control during World War I.-Early life and business...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wittingham in the County of Buckingham, in 1908, and Baron Devonport, of Wittington in the County of Buckingham, in 1910. the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1973.

The family seat is Ray Demesne, near Kirkwhelpington

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Kirkwhelpington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northumberland about northeast of Hexham. It is on the River Wansbeck alongside the A696 trunk road between Otterburn and Ponteland.- History :...

, Northumberland

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. The family surname is pronounced "Keerly" (rhymes with nearly).

Viscounts Devonport (1917)

• Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport
  Hudson Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport
  Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport, PC, DL was a British grocer and politician. He founded the International Tea Company's Stores, became the first chairman of the Port of London Authority, and served as Minister of Food Control during World War I.-Early life and business...
  
   (1856–1934)
• Gerald Chester Kearley, 2nd Viscount Devonport (1890–1973)
• Terence Kearley, 3rd Viscount Devonport
  Terence Kearley, 3rd Viscount Devonport
  Terence Kearley, 3rd Viscount Devonport , was a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords from 1973 until 1999.- External links :*...
  
   (b. 1944)

The heir presumptive

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 is the present holder's first cousin, Chester Dagley Hugh Kearley (b. 1932)

The heir presumptive's heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is his son David Kearley (b. 1982)