Viscount Strangford was a title in the
Peerage of Ireland
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. It was created in for Sir Thomas Smythe. He was a son of
John Smith
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(also Smythe)
J.P.,
High Sheriff of Kent
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1600–1601, also
M.P.
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for
Aylesbury
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(in 1584) and
Hythe
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(in 1586, 1587 and 1604), and grandson of
Thomas Smythe
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, of
Westenhanger Castle
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, collector of customs for London, haberdasher, and M.P.
The sixth Viscount was British ambassador to
Portugal
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,
Sweden, the
Ottoman Empire
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and
Russia
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. In 1825 he was created Baron Penshurst, of Penshurst in the County of Kent, in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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, enabling him and his descendants to sit in the
House of Lords
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. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the seventh Viscount. He was a
Conservative
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politician, best known for his association with
Benjamin Disraeli and the
Young England
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movement. He died young and was succeeded by his younger brother, the eighth Viscount. He was a man of letters. The titles became extinct on his death in , although his widow,
Viscountess Strangford, lived until 1887.
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Viscounts Strangford (1628)
*Thomas Smythe, 1st Viscount Strangford (1599–1635)
* Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford (1634–1708)
*Endymion Smythe, 3rd Viscount Strangford (died 1724)
* Philip Smythe, 4th Viscount Strangford (1715–1787)
*Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford (1753–1801)
*Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (31 August 178029 May 1855) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.
Early life
He was the son of Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford (1753–1801) and Maria Eliza Philipse. In 1769, his sixteen-yea ...
(1780–1855)
* George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford (1818–1857)
* Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford (1825–1869) married Emily Anne Beaufort
References
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Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland
Noble titles created in 1628
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