Earl Sydney
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The titles of Baron Sydney and Viscount Sydney were created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1783 and 1789, respectively, for Thomas Townshend, a politician of the period for whom the Australian city of Sydney is named. Townshend was the grandson of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, from whom the Marquesses of Townshend descend. In 1874 his grandson, the 3rd Viscount, was created Earl Sydney, of Scadbury in the County of Kent, but all the titles became extinct upon his death in 1890.
[edit] Viscounts Sydney (1789)
- Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800)
- John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney (1764-1831)
- John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805-1890), created Earl Sydney in 1874
