The title Earl of Dover has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England occurred in 1628 when Henry Carey, 1st Viscount Rochford, was created Earl of Dover, in the

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. He was succeeded in 1666 by his son, the second Earl. He had already in 1640 been summoned to the

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through a

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in his father's barony of Hunsdon. However, on his death in 1677 the earldom became extinct. The creation in the Jacobite Peerage occurred in July 1689 when

Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover Henry Jermyn, 3rd Baron Jermyn and 1st Baron Dover, 1st Jacobite Earl of Dover PC (c. 1636–1708) was an English peer and supporter of James II. Jermyn was the second son of Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, who died in 1659, and his wi ...

, was created Baron Jermyn of Royston, Baron

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, Viscount

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and Earl of Dover by the deposed

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, these titles not being recognised by the English Government, though Dover became generally known as the Earl of Dover. He commanded a troop at the

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, but shortly afterwards made his submission to

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. He spent the rest of his life living quietly at his London townhouse, or at his country estate

, near Newmarket. He succeeded his brother

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as 3rd Baron Jermyn in 1703, and died in 1708. As he left no children by his wife, Judith, daughter of Sir Edmund Poley, of Badley, Suffolk, his titles became extinct at his death. This cites: * Samuel Pepys' ''Diary'', edited by H. B. Wheatley, 9 vols. (

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, 1893); *Anthony Hamilton, ''Memoirs of Grammont'' (Bohn edition, London, 1846); *

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, ''Life of James II'', 2 vols. (London, 1816); *

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, ''Brief Relation of State Affairs 1678-1714'', 6 vols. (

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, 1857).

Earls of Dover (1628)

* Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover (1580–1666) *

John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover (1608 – 26 May 1677), styled Viscount Rochford from 1628 to 1666, was an English peer. He was the eldest son of Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover, and Judith, daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet. He was educated ...

(1608–1677)

Earls of Dover (1689, Jacobite peerage)

* Henry Jermyn, ''1st Earl of Dover'' (1636–1708)

References

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