Earl Roberts
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The title Earl Roberts, of Kandahar in Afghanistan and Pretoria in the Transvaal Colony and of the City of Waterford, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1901 for Field Marshal the 1st Baron Roberts, who had been created Baron Roberts, of Kandahar in Afghanistan and of the City of Waterford, in 1892. The subsidiary title Viscount St Pierre was created at the same time as the Earldom. The Earldom and the Viscountcy were created with special remainder to the 1st Earl's daughters, as his sons had already predeceased him. The Barony (created with no special remainder) became extinct on the death of the 1st Earl, and the Earldom and Viscountcy became extinct on the death of the 1st Earl's younger daughter, the 3rd Countess, in 1955.
