Viscount Hardinge

Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Kings Newton in the county of Derbyshire, is a British hereditary title of nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, named after the family Hardinge.

Ancestral home of the family is Broadmere House in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Award

The title was in 1846 the officer, Governor-General of India and politicians awarded Sir Henry Hardinge. He had previously commanded the victorious British troops in the Battle of Sobraon against the Sikhs.

He later became commander of the British army.

More titles

The sixth Viscount inherited in 1986 by a distant relative of the title Hardinge Baronet, of Lurran. This was in 1801 awarded to an uncle of the first Viscount. At the ceremony had been expressly determined that the title of the first baronet of brothers and their male descendants could be inherited.

The baronetcy is now operated as a subordinate title of Viscountswürde.

A branch of the family also holds the title of Baron Hardinge of Penshurst. This was Charles Hardinge, a younger son of the second Viscount, was awarded.

List of Viscount Hardinge and Hardinge Baronets, of Lurran

Viscount Hardinge (1846 )

  • Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge ( 1785-1856 )
  • Charles Stewart Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge ( 1822-1894 )
  • Henry Charles Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge ( 1857-1924 )
  • Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 4th Viscount Hardinge ( 1905-1979 )
  • Henry Nicholas Paul Hardinge, 5th Viscount Hardinge ( 1929-1984 )
  • Charles Henry Nicholas Hardinge, 6th Viscount Hardinge ( 1956-2004 )
  • Andrew Hartland Hardinge, 7th Viscount Hardinge ( 1960-2014 )
  • Thomas Henry de Montarville Hardinge, 8th Viscount Hardinge (* 1993)

The heir apparent is Jamie Alexander David Hardinge (* 1997)

Hardinge Baronets, of Lurran (1801 )

  • Richard Hardinge, 1st Baronet ( 1756-1826 )
  • Charles Hardinge, 2nd Baronet ( 1780-1864 )
  • Henry Charles Hardinge, 3rd Baronet ( 1830-1873 )
  • Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet ( 1833-1924 )
  • Edmund Charles Hardinge, 5th Baronet ( 1878-1968 )
  • Robert Hardinge, 6th Baronet ( 1887-1973 )
  • Robert Arnold Hardinge, 7th Baronet ( 1914-1986 )
  • Charles Henry Nicholas Hardinge, 8th Baronet ( 1956-2004 ) (since 1984, already the title Viscount Hardinge )

Given the further Baronets of Lurran, see above at Viscount Hardinge

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