200px, Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton. Viscount Wolverhampton, of

Wolverhampton Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of ...

in the

County of Stafford Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the south-east, the West Midlands cou ...

, was a title in the

Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great B ...

. It was created on 4 May 1908 for the Liberal politician Henry Fowler. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, on 9 March 1943. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler, daughters of the first Viscount, were both authors.

Viscounts Wolverhampton (1908)

Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, (16 May 183025 February 1911) 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. A member of the Wesleyan Me ...

(1830–1911) * Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolverhampton Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1908 Peerages created for UK MPs