Earl of Scarsdale

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The title of Earl of Scarsdale was created in the Peerage of England in 1645. It became extinct with the death of the Fourth Earl in 1736. The Earls held the subsidiary title of Baron Deincourt of Sutton (1624) in the Peerage of England. One of the family seats was Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire built for Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale now an elaborate ruin managed by English-Heritage. Some of the interior fixtures now reside in the United States at the Philadelphia Museum. Another family seat was Kedleston Hall.

[edit] Earls of Scarsdale (1645)

• Francis Leke, 1st Earl of Scarsdale (1581-1655)
• Nicholas Leke, 2nd Earl of Scarsdale (1612-1681)
• Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale (1654-1707)
• Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale (1682-1736)