Earl of Kilmuir

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Earl of Kilmuir was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1962 for the prominent lawyer and Conservative politician David Maxwell Fyfe along with the subsidiary title Baron Fyfe of Dornoch, of Dornoch in the County of Sutherland. He had already been created Viscount Kilmuir, of Creich in the County of Sutherland, in 1954. The earldom and barony were created seven days after Maxwell Fyfe was axed from the Cabinet in July 1962 during the Night of the Long Knives. The titles became extinct on Lord Kilmuir's death in 1967 as he had no sons, only daughters.