Viscount Daventry

Viscountcy of Daventry
Viscountcy of Daventry
	Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules three Lion's Gambs two and one Argent (Newdegate); 2nd and 3rd, the Royal Arms of King Charles II debruised by a Baton Sinister compony Argent and Azure (FitzRoy)
Creation date	6 May 1943
Created by	King George VI
Peerage	Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder	Muriel FitzRoy, 1st Viscountess Daventry
Present holder	James Edward FitzRoy Newdegate, 4th Viscount Daventry
Heir apparent	the Hon. Humphrey John FitzRoy Newdegate
Status	Extant
Seat(s)	Arbury Hall

Viscount Daventry, of Daventry in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 May 1943 for Muriel FitzRoy (née Douglas-Pennant), in honour of her late husband, the Hon. Edward FitzRoy, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943. The first Viscountess was the sister of Frank Douglas-Pennant, 5th Baron Penrhyn, whilst Edward FitzRoy was the second son of Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton, and a male-line descendant of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton. Lady Daventry was succeeded by her eldest son, the second Viscount. He was a captain in the Royal Navy. He was succeeded by his nephew, the third Viscount. His father had assumed the additional surname of Newdegate, which was that of his father-in-law. As of 2017^[update] the title is held by his son, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 2000. As a male-line descendant of both the third Baron Southampton and the second Duke of Grafton, he is also in remainder to those peerages.

The family seat is Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Viscounts Daventry (1943)

Muriel FitzRoy, 1st Viscountess Daventry (1869–1962)
Robert Oliver FitzRoy, 2nd Viscount Daventry (1893–1986)
Francis Humphrey Maurice FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry (1921–2000)
James Edward FitzRoy Newdegate, 4th Viscount Daventry (b. 1960)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. Humphrey John FitzRoy Newdegate (b. 1995).

Line of succession

Francis Humphrey Maurice Fitzroy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry (1921 - 2000)
- James Edward Fitzroy Newdegate, 4th Viscount Daventry (born 1960)
  - (1) Hon. Humphrey John Fitzroy Newdegate (b. 1995)

Notes

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}

v t e Extant viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
Sorted by kingdom in which created, then creation date
England	Hereford
Scotland	Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird
Great Britain	Bolingbroke St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood
Ireland	Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden Ferrard Monck Gort
United Kingdom	St Vincent Melville Sidmouth Exmouth Combermere Hill Hardinge Bridport Portman Hampden Hambleden Knutsford Esher Goschen Ridley Colville of Culross Selby Knollys Allendale Chilston Scarsdale Mersey Cowdray Devonport Astor Wimborne St Davids Rothermere Allenby Chelmsford Long Ullswater Younger of Leckie Bearsted Craigavon Bridgeman Hailsham Brentford Buckmaster Bledisloe Hanworth Trenchard Samuel Runciman of Doxford Davidson Weir Caldecote Camrose Stansgate Margesson Daventry Addison Kemsley Marchwood Montgomery of Alamein Waverley Thurso Brookeborough Norwich Leathers Soulbury Chandos Malvern De L'Isle Monckton of Brenchley Tenby Mackintosh of Halifax Dunrossil Stuart of Findhorn Rochdale Slim Head Boyd of Merton Mills Blakenham Eccles Dilhorne
Italics: This title is held by a peer who holds another of higher precedence.

Viscounts Daventry (1943)

Line of succession

See also

Notes

References