Earl Jellicoe

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Earldom of Jellicoe
heirs male of the body
lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titlesViscount Jellicoe
Viscount Brocas
MottoSUI MEMORES MERENDO
Remembered for their merits
Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe

Earl Jellicoe is a title in the

County of Orkney, on 15 January 1918, created with remainder to the heirs male of his body, and in default of such issue to his eldest daughter and the heirs male of her body, with the like remainder in default of such issue to every other daughter successively in order of priority of birth, and to the heirs male of their bodies.[1][2]
The Jellicoe viscountcy was created with remainder to his daughters and their heirs male because, at the time of the creation, Jellicoe had five daughters and no sons. His only son was born three months later.

The title of Viscount Brocas is used as a

masters of the king's buckhounds.[3]

The 1st Earl Jellicoe was succeeded by his only son,

life peerage as Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, of Southampton, in the County of Hampshire, and remained a member of the House of Lords despite the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 which removed the hereditary peerage's automatic right to sit in the Lords. Until his death in 2007, the second Earl Jellicoe was the longest-serving member of the Lords, and technically the longest-serving parliamentarian in the world, having taken his seat in 1939.[4][5]

Arms

Earl Jellicoe (1925)

Present peer

Patrick John Bernard Jellicoe, 3rd Earl Jellicoe (born 29 April 1950), is the son of the 2nd Earl and his wife Patricia Christine O'Kane. Formally styled as Viscount Brocas from birth, he was educated at Eton College. In 2003 he was living in Tiverton, Devon.[4]

On 22 February 2007, he succeeded his father as Earl Jellicoe (U.K., 1925), Viscount Brocas (U.K., 1925) and Viscount Jellicoe, of Scapa, Orkney (U.K., 1918).[4]

In 1971, as Lord Brocas, he married Geraldine Ann FitzGerald Jackson; they were divorced in 1981, having one son, Justin Amadeus Jellicoe (born 1970).

Jellicoe also has a son with Clare Fisher, Jack Jellicoe (born 1977).[4]

As both sons were born outside wedlock, the heir presumptive to the peerages is the present holder's brother, the Hon. Nicholas Charles Joseph Jellicoe (born 1953).[7][8]

Line of succession

  1. Hon. Nicholas Charles Joseph John Jellicoe (b. 1953), second son of the 2nd earl
  2. Hon. John Philip Jellicoe (b. 1966), third and youngest son of the 2nd earl

The above are in the line of succession for both the earldom and the viscountcies. There are further heirs to the viscountcy of Jellicoe (but not that of Brocas) in accordance with the special remainder granted in that title to the heirs male of the first viscount's daughters in order of birth.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "No. 33063". The London Gazette. 3 July 1925. p. 4448.
  2. ^ Temple Patterson. Jellicoe. p. 246.
  3. ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Brocas, Bernard" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Burke's Peerage. Vol. II. pp. 2088, 2089.
  5. ^ "Earl Jellicoe". Times Online. London: Times Newspapers Ltd. 26 February 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage. Vol. II. p. 2089.
  7. ^ Jellicoe, Earl (UK, 1925), Cracroft's Peerage.
  8. ^ 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918-2007)/Heir Question, Peerage News.

References

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