Earl of Snowdon

Earl of Snowdon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1961, together with the subsidiary title Viscount Linley, of Nymans in the County of Sussex, for Antony Armstrong-Jones,[1] who was then the husband of HRH The Princess Margaret. Snowdon as a peerage title had previous royal associations; the title of Baron Snowdon had been conferred along with the Dukedom of Edinburgh on Prince Frederick Louis, grandson of George I and future Prince of Wales, in 1726. The title merged in the crown in 1760 when its holder acceded as George III.

In November 1999, Lord Snowdon received a life peerage as Baron Armstrong-Jones under a device designed to allow first-generation hereditaries to retain their seats in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.[2][3]

Earls of Snowdon (1961)

Line of succession

  1. David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (b. 1961), son of the Earl
  2. The Hon. Charles Patrick Inigo Armstrong-Jones (b. 1999), son of Viscount Linley

Notes

  1. ^ London Gazette: no. 42481. p. 7199. Friday 6th October, 1961. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
  2. ^ London Gazette Friday, 19 November 1999
  3. ^ London Gazette Tuesday, 23 November 1999