Viscount St Vincent, of Meaford in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1801 for the noted naval commander John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent

John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent

Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom...

, with remainder to his nephews William Henry Ricketts and Edward Jervis Ricketts successively, and after them to his niece Mary, wife of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk

William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk

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. He had already been created Baron Jervis, of Meaford in the County of Stafford, and Earl of St Vincent, in the Peerage of Great Britain

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, in 1797, with normal remainder to his heirs male. On Lord St Vincent's death in 1823 the barony and earldom became extinct while he was succeeded in the viscountcy according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Viscount. In 1823 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Jervis in lieu of Ricketts. His great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, was part of the force that was sent in 1885 to rescue General Gordon

Charles George Gordon

Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB , known as "Chinese" Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator....

 at Khartoum

Khartoum

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, and died from wounds received at the Battle of Abu Klea

Battle of Abu Klea

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 in January of that year. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth Viscount. the title is held by the latter's grandson, the eighth Viscount, who succeeded his father in September 2006. The seventh Viscount, who died at the age of 101 years and 124 days, is the oldest hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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 ever.

Viscounts St Vincent (1801)

• John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, 1st Viscount St Vincent
  John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
  Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom...
  
   (1735–1823)
• Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent (1767–1859)
• Carnegie Robert John Jervis, 3rd Viscount St Vincent (1825–1879)
• Edward John Leveson Jervis, 4th Viscount St Vincent (1850–1885)
• Carnegie Parker Jervis, 5th Viscount St Vincent (1855–1908)
• Ronald Clarges Jervis, 6th Viscount St Vincent (1859–1940)
• Ronald George James Jervis, 7th Viscount St Vincent (1905–2006)
• Edward Robert James Jervis, 8th Viscount St Vincent (b. 1951)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. James Richard Anthony Jervis (b. 1982)