Viscount Wolverhampton
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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 on 4 May 1908 for the Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
politician Henry Fowler
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton PC , was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage...
. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, on 9 March 1943.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
-Works:She published several volumes of verse and a volume of short stories. She first achieved fame by the publication of Concerning Isabel Carnaby...
and Edith Henrietta Fowler
Edith Henrietta Fowler
Edith Henrietta Fowler was an English novelist. She was the daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton and the younger sister of the author Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. Edith Fowler wrote two very successful novels for children: The Young Pretenders and The Professor's Children...
, daughters of the first Viscount, were both authors.
Viscounts Wolverhampton (1908)
- Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount WolverhamptonHenry Fowler, 1st Viscount WolverhamptonHenry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton PC , was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage...
(1830–1911) - Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943)