Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
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The title of Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1789.
The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort (1781) and Baron Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe (1742). both in the Peerage of Great Britain. The heir-apparent uses the courtesy title of Viscount Valletort.
The family seat is Empacombe House, near Plymouth. The present Earl lives in England, but his family lives in New Zealand since 1860.
[edit] Barons Edgcumbe (1742)
- Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe (1680-1758)
- Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe (1716-1761)
- George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe (1720-1795) (became Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort in 1781)
[edit] Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort (1781)
- George Edgcumbe, 1st Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort (1720-1795) (became Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in 1789)
[edit] Earls of Mount Edgcumbe (1789)
- George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1720-1795)
- Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764-1839)
- Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1797-1861)
- William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1832-1917)
- Piers Alexander Hamilton Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1865-1944)
- Kenelm William Edward Edgcumbe, 6th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1873-1965)
- Edward Piers Edgcumbe, 7th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1903-1982)
- Robert Charles Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (b. 1939)
The Heir Presumptive is his first cousin, Piers Valletort Edgcumbe (b. 1946), followed by his brother, Christopher George Mortimer Edgcumbe (b. 1950) and then, by his son, Douglas George Valletort Edgcumbe (b. 1985)