The title Earl Castleton, of Sandbeck in the

County of York Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

, was created in the

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in 1720 for the 6th Viscount Castleton, who had previously been created Baron Saunderson, of Saxby in the

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, in 1714, and Viscount Castleton, of Sandbeck in the County of York, in 1716, both also in the Peerage of Great Britain. The title Viscount Castleton, in the County of Limerick, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1627, along with the subsidiary title Baron Saunderson, of Bantry in the

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, for Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Baronet, who had been created a Baronet, styled "of Saxby in the County of Lincoln", in the

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, in 1611. All of the titles became extinct on the death of the 1st Earl in 1723. His estates passed to his cousin Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lumley, who thereupon took the additional surname of Saunderson by Act of Parliament and subsequently succeeded as 3rd Earl of Scarbrough.''Burke's Peerage'' (1939 edition, s.v. Scarbrough, Earl).

Saunderson Baronets (1611)

* Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Baronet (1561–1630) (created Viscount Castleton in 1627)

Viscounts Castleton (1627)

* Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton (1561–1630) * Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton (d. 1640) * Nicholas Saunderson, 3rd Viscount Castleton (1625–1641) * Peregrine Saunderson, 4th Viscount Castleton (1628–1650) * George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton (1631–1714) * James Saunderson, 6th Viscount Castleton (1667–1723) (created Earl Castleton in 1720)

Earls Castleton (1720)

James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton (c. 1667, Sandbeck, Yorkshire – 23 May 1723) was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1710. Saunderson was the eighth and only su ...

(1667–1723)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Castleton Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Great Britain Noble titles created in 1720 1720 establishments in Great Britain