Earl of Snowdon

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Earldom of Snowdon

Blazon

Arms of the 1st Earl of Snowdon at the time of the earldom's creation: Sable on a chevron argent, between in chief two fleurs-de-lis Or, and in base an eagle displayed Or, four pallets gules.[1]
Creation date6 October 1961
Created by
heirs male of the body
lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titlesViscount Linley
Baron Armstrong-Jones (1999–2017)

Earl of Snowdon is a title in the

Princess Margaret
in 1960.

Titles

Choice of names

Prince Frederick Louis, grandson of George I and future Prince of Wales. It merged in the Crown in 1760, when its holder acceded as George III
.

Linley, chosen for the viscountcy, comes from the 1st Earl of Snowdon's maternal great-grandfather, the English cartoonist and illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne.[3]

Anne Armstrong-Jones, née Messel, Countess of Rosse, mother of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, had grown up.[3]

Life peerage

In November 1999, the 1st Earl of Snowdon received a

life peerage as Baron Armstrong-Jones,[4][5] under a device designed to allow first-generation hereditary peers to retain their seats in the House of Lords, after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999
.

Earls of Snowdon (1961)

The heir apparent is the present holder's only son,

Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
(b. 1999). He is alone in the line of succession to the earldom.

Coats of arms

  • Arms of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO
    Arms of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO
  • Arms of the 2nd Earl of Snowdon[6]
    Arms of the 2nd Earl of Snowdon[6]
  • Arms of the 2nd Earl of Snowdon's heir apparent Charles, Viscount Linley
    Arms of the 2nd Earl of Snowdon's
    Charles, Viscount Linley

Notes

  1. ^ "Earl of Snowdon". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ^ "No. 42481". The London Gazette. 6 October 1961. p. 7199.
  3. ^
    ASIN B077H1HWCB
    .
  4. ^ "No. 55672". The London Gazette. 19 November 1999. p. 12349.
  5. ^ "No. 55676". The London Gazette. 23 November 1999. p. 12465.
  6. ^ The 2nd Earl has the right to use the Coronet of a child of a Daughter of the Sovereign.

External links

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