Earl of Snowdon
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Earl of Snowdon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1961, together with the subsidiary title Viscount Linley, of Nymans in the County of Sussex, for Antony Armstrong-Jones,[1] who was then the husband of HRH The Princess Margaret. Snowdon as a peerage title had previous royal associations; the title of Baron Snowdon had been conferred along with the Dukedom of Edinburgh on Prince Frederick Louis, grandson of George I and future Prince of Wales, in 1726. The title merged in the crown in 1760 when its holder acceded as George III.
In November 1999, Lord Snowdon received a life peerage as Baron Armstrong-Jones under a device designed to allow first-generation hereditaries to retain their seats in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.[2][3]
[edit] Earls of Snowdon (1961)
[edit] Line of succession
- David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (b. 1961), son of the Earl
- The Hon. Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong-Jones (b. 1999), son of Viscount Linley
[edit] Notes
- ^ London Gazette: no. 42481. p. 7199. Friday 6th October, 1961. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- ^ London Gazette Friday, 19 November 1999
- ^ London Gazette Tuesday, 23 November 1999
