Viscount Hardinge

Henry Hardinge,
1st Viscount Hardinge

Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of Kings Newton in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory politician Sir Henry Hardinge. His son, the second Viscount, represented Downpatrick in Parliament. His great-great-grandson, the sixth Viscount, succeeded a distant relative as eighth Baronet, of Belle Isle in the County of Fermanagh, in 1986. This title had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1801 for Richard Hardinge. He was the third son of Nicolas Hardinge, younger brother of Reverend Henry Hardinge and uncle of the latter's third son Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge. The baronetcy was created with special remainder to the heirs male of Richard Hardinge's father.

Another member of the Hardinge family was the diplomat Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst. He was the second son of the second Viscount Hardinge. George Nicholas Hardinge was an officer of the Royal Navy, second son of Reverend Henry Hardinge and elder brother of the first Viscount.

The family seat is , near Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Viscounts Hardinge (1846)[]

Escutcheon of the Viscounts Hardinge

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856)
Charles Stewart Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge (1822–1894)
^[1] (1857–1924)
(1905–1979)
(1929–1984)
(1956–2004)
(1960–2014)
(b. 1993)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother Hon. Jamie Alexander David Hardinge (b. 1996).

Hardinge Baronets, of Belle Isle (1801)[]

(1756–1826)
(1780–1864)
(1830–1873)
Sir Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet (1833–1924)
(1878–1968)
(1887–1973)
(1914–1986)
(1956–2004) (had already succeeded as Viscount Hardinge in 1984)

for further succession, see above

Notes[]

^ Hesilrige 1921, p. 443.

References[]

Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 443.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,^{[page needed]}
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Henry Nicholas Hardinge, 6th Viscount Hardinge

[FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921443-1] Hesilrige 1921, p. 443.

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