Orphan Succeeds To Great GrandFather's Title
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 28. A seven-year-old orphan has succeeded his great-grand-father as the new Viscount Ullswater.
The editor of Debretts said today that they can find only four other cases of a greatgrandson succeeding to a title in the whole history of the English peerage. The late Viscount Ullswater, who was Speaker in the House of Commons from 1905 to 1921, died last night at the age of 93.
His successor is Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, whose father, the secretary to the Duke of Kent, was killed when their aircraft crashed in Scotland in 1942. Nicholas’ mother died in 1945.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 29 March 1949, Page 5
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