Viscount Kingston
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The peerage
title Viscount Kingston, has been created twice, once in Ireland
and once in Scotland
. The Scottish creation, which is actually rendered as Viscount of Kingston, was created in 1651 for Alexander Seton, and was forfeited in 1715 when the third viscount was attainted.
The Irish title was created in 1768 as a subsidiary title for the Earl of Kingston, and is still extant.
Peerage
The Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...
title Viscount Kingston, has been created twice, once in Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...
and once in Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
. The Scottish creation, which is actually rendered as Viscount of Kingston, was created in 1651 for Alexander Seton, and was forfeited in 1715 when the third viscount was attainted.
The Irish title was created in 1768 as a subsidiary title for the Earl of Kingston, and is still extant.
Viscount of Kingston, Peerage of Scotland (1651)
- Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of KingstonAlexander Seton, 1st Viscount of KingstonSir Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston , a Cavalier, was the first dignity Charles II conferred as King.-Family:...
(1621–1691) - Archibald Seton, 2nd Viscount of Kingston (1661–1713)
- James Seton, 3rd Viscount of Kingston (d. 1726) (forfeit 1715)
Viscount Kingston, Peerage of Ireland (1768)
- subsidiary title of the Earl of KingstonEarl of KingstonEarl of Kingston is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1768 for Edward King, 1st Viscount Kingston. He had already succeeded his father as fifth Baronet of Boyle Abbey and been created Baron Kingston, of Rockingham in the County of Roscommon in 1764 and Viscount Kingston in 1766,...
(1768)