Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore

Lahore

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 and of Kings Newton

Kings Newton

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 in the County of Derby

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory

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 politician Sir Henry Hardinge

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge

Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India.-Army career:...

. His son, the second Viscount, represented Downpatrick

Downpatrick (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in Parliament. His great-great-grandson, the sixth Viscount, succeeded a distant relative as eighth Baronet, of Belle Isle in the County of Fermanagh, in 1986. This title had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1801 for Richard Hardinge. He was the third son of Nicolas Hardinge, younger brother of Reverend Henry Hardinge and uncle of the latter's third son Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge

Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India.-Army career:...

. The baronetcy was created with special remainder to the heir males of Richard Hardinge's father.

Another member of the Hardinge family was the diplomat Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, was a British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916.-Background and education:...

. He was the second son of the second Viscount Hardinge. George Nicholas Hardinge

George Nicholas Hardinge

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 was an officer of the Royal Navy

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, second son of Reverend Henry Hardinge and elder brother of the first Viscount.

The family seat is Broadmere House, near Basingstoke

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, Hampshire

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Viscounts Hardinge (1846)

• Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
  Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
  Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India.-Army career:...
  
   (1785–1856)
• Charles Stewart Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge
  Charles Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge
  Charles Stewart Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge , was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Hardinge was the son of Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, and Lady Emily Jane, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry.-Political career:Hardinge was elected Member...
  
   (1822–1894)
• Henry Charles Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge (1857–1924)
• Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 4th Viscount Hardinge (1905–1979)
• Henry Nicholas Paul Hardinge, 5th Viscount Hardinge (1929–1984)
• Charles Henry Nicholas Hardinge, 6th Viscount Hardinge (1956–2004)
• Andrew Hartland Hardinge 7th Viscount Hardinge (b. 1960)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Thomas Henry de Montarville Hardinge (b. 1993)

Hardinge Baronets, of Belle Isle (1801)

• Sir Richard Hardinge, 1st Baronet (1756–1826)
• Sir Charles Hardinge, 2nd Baronet (1780–1864)
• Sir Henry Charles Hardinge, 3rd Baronet (1830–1873)
• Sir Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet (1833–1924)
• Sir Charles Edmund Hardinge, 5th Baronet (1878–1968)
• Sir Robert Hardinge, 6th Baronet (1887–1973)
• Sir Robert Arnold Hardinge, 7th Baronet (1914–1986) – unproven
• Sir Charles Henry Nicholas Hardinge, 8th Baronet (1956–2004) – unproven (had already succeeded as Viscount Hardinge in 1984)

For further Baronets of Belle Isle, see the Viscount Hardinge