Viscount Hawarden

Viscount Hawarden is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1793 for Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Baronet, who had earlier represented Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons. He had succeeded his older brother, Thomas, as third Baronet of Dundrum. He married Mary, a niece of Ralph Allen, through whom lands in Combe Down, Somerset, came into his family. His son, the third Viscount, sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1836 to 1850. His son, the fourth Viscount, was an Irish Representative Peer from 1862 to 1886 and served as a government whip from 1866 to 1868 and from 1874 to 1880 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli. In 1886 the fourth Viscount was created Earl de Montalt, of Dundrum in the County of Tipperary, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. However, this title became extinct on his death in 1905 while he was succeeded in his other titles by his cousin, the fifth Viscount. He was the eldest son of the Very Reverend the Hon. Robert William Henry Maude, second son of the first Viscount. His son, the sixth Viscount, was killed at an early eage in France during the First World War while serving as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards and was succeeded by his cousin, the seventh Viscount. He was the son of Ludlow Eustace Maude, younger son of the aforementioned Robert William Henry Maude. As of 2010 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the ninth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1991.

The Maude Baronetcy, of Dundrum in the County of Tipperary, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 9 May 1705 for the first Viscount's father Robert Maude. He represented Gowran, Canice and Bangor in the Irish House of Commons. His eldest son, the second Baronet, sat as a Member of the Irish Parliament for Tipperary. In 1776 he was created Baron de Montalt, of Hawarden in the County of Tipperary, in the Peerage of Ireland. However, this title became extinct on his death in 1777 while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the aforementioned third Baronet, for whom the barony was revived in 1785.

The family seat was Dundrum House, near Cashel, County Tipperary.

Maude Baronets, of Dundrum (1705)

• Sir Robert Maude, 1st Baronet (died 1750)
• Sir Thomas Maude, 2nd Baronet (1727–1777) (created Baron de Montalt in 1776)

Barons de Montalt (1777)

• Thomas Maude, 1st Baron de Montalt (1727–1777)

Maude Baronets, of Dundrum (1705; Reverted)

• Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Baronet (1729–1803) (created Viscount Hawarden in 1793)

Viscounts Hawarden (1793)

• Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden (1729–1803)
• Thomas Ralph Maude, 2nd Viscount Hawarden (1767–1807)
• Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden (1780–1856)
• Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden (1817–1905) (created Earl de Montalt in 1886)

Earls de Montalt (1886)

• Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt (1817–1905)

Viscounts Hawarden (1793; Reverted)

• Robert Henry Maude, 5th Viscount Hawarden (1842–1908)
• Robert Cornwallis Maude, 6th Viscount Hawarden (1890–1914)
• Eustace Wyndham Maude, 7th Viscount Hawarden (1877–1958)
• Robert Leslie Eustace Maude, 8th Viscount Hawarden (1926–1991)
• Robert Connan Wyndham Leslie Maude, 9th Viscount Hawarden (born 1961)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. Varian John Connan Eustace Maude (born 1997).

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages