Viscount Rochdale, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, 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 1960 for John Kemp, 2nd Baron Rochdale

John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale

John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale OBE TD was a British peer and businessman.Kemp married Elinor Dorothea Pease on 18 March 1931 and succeeded to his father's title as the 2nd Baron Rochdale in 1945. He was created Viscount Rochdale in 1960.Lord and Lady Rochdale had two children:* St John...

. He was Chairman of the woollen manufacturing firm of Kelsall & Kemp Ltd and a former President of the National Union of Manufacturers and Governor of the BBC

BBC

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. The title of Baron Rochdale, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1913 for his father, George Kemp

George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale

George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, CB was a British politician, soldier, businessman and cricketer.-Education & business:...

. He was Chairman of Kelsall & Kemp Ltd, a Brigadier-General in the Army, and former Member of Parliament for South East Lancashire

South East Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)

South East Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament...

 and Manchester North West

Manchester North West (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester North West was one of six single-member Parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the three-member Parliamentary Borough of Manchester under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. Its first MP, William Houldsworth, had previously sat for Manchester...

. the titles are held by the first Viscount's son, the second Viscount, who succeeded in 1993.

Barons Rochdale (1913)

• George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale
  George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale
  George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, CB was a British politician, soldier, businessman and cricketer.-Education & business:...
  
   (1866–1945)
• John Durival Kemp, 2nd Baron Rochdale
  John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale
  John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale OBE TD was a British peer and businessman.Kemp married Elinor Dorothea Pease on 18 March 1931 and succeeded to his father's title as the 2nd Baron Rochdale in 1945. He was created Viscount Rochdale in 1960.Lord and Lady Rochdale had two children:* St John...
  
   (1906–1993) (created Viscount Rochdale in 1960)

Viscounts Rochdale (1960)

• John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale
  John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale
  John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale OBE TD was a British peer and businessman.Kemp married Elinor Dorothea Pease on 18 March 1931 and succeeded to his father's title as the 2nd Baron Rochdale in 1945. He was created Viscount Rochdale in 1960.Lord and Lady Rochdale had two children:* St John...
  
   (1906–1993)
• St John Durival Kemp, 2nd Viscount Rochdale (b. 1938)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is the present holder's son the Hon. Jonathan Hugo Durival Kemp (b. 1961)