Category:Viscountesses

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The title of Viscountess is usually granted as a courtesy tile to the wives of a Viscount and is used as a prefix to her Christian name, in the event of a bereavement or a divorce.

There are occasions, when a noblewoman is a Viscountess in her own right. Occasionally, as in the case of the Viscountess Beaconsfield, she receives the hereditary peerage, while her husband is still alive, but quite often, a lady will inherit the peerage, due to a special remainder. This would have been granted, if a national hero, has no apparent male heirs, so this will prevent the peerage becoming extinct.