Viscount Malvern, of Rhodesia and of Bexley in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1955 for the first Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation , was a semi-independent state in southern Africa that existed from 1953 to the end of 1963, comprising the former self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia,...

, Sir Godfrey Huggins

Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern

Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, CH, KCMG, PC was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1956, becoming the...

. the title is held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1978.

Viscounts Malvern (1955)

• Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern
  Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern
  Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, CH, KCMG, PC was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1956, becoming the...
  
   (1883–1971)
• John Godfrey Huggins, 2nd Viscount Malvern (1922–1978)
• Ashley Kevin Godfrey Huggins, 3rd Viscount Malvern (b. 1949)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

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and last male of the line is the present holder's uncle, the Hon. Martin James Huggins (b. 1928)