Viscount Cowdray, of
Cowdray in the
County of Sussex
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, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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. It was created in 1917 for the industrialist
Weetman Pearson, 1st Baron Cowdray, head of the
Pearson Pearson may refer to:
Organizations Education
*Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
*Pearson College (UK), London, owned by Pearson PLC
*Lester B. Pearson High School (disambiguation)
Companies
*Pearson PLC, a UK-based int ...
conglomerate. He had already been created a Baronet, of Paddockhurst, in the
Parish of Worth, in the County of Sussex, and of Airlie Gardens, in the Parish of
St Mary Abbots
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The present church structure was built in 1872 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott, who combined neo-Gothic and early ...
,
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
, in the
County of London
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, on 26 June 1894, and Baron Cowdray, of
Midhurst
Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester.
The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...
in the County of Sussex, in 1910. His son, the second Viscount, sat as a
Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
Member of Parliament
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for
Eye. His son, the third Viscount, after serving in
World War II
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where he lost an arm, was Chairman of the family firm of
Pearson Plc
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It was founded as a construction business in the 1840s but switched to publishing in the 1920s.J. A. Spende ...
from 1954 to 1977. The titles are held by the latter's son, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1995.
The family seat is
Cowdray Park, West Sussex
Cowdray Park is a country house at the centre of the Cowdray Estate in Midhurst, West Sussex.
The park lies in the South Downs National Park. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1909. It has a golf course, an ...
, near
Midhurst
Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester.
The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...
,
Sussex
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, which the 4th Viscount put up for sale in 2011 and later proposed converting into apartments.
Viscounts Cowdray (1917)
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Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, (15 July 1856 – 1 May 1927), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, Benefactor (law), be ...
(1856–1927)
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(Weetman) Harold Miller Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray (1882–1933)
*
Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray (1910–1995)
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Michael Orlando Weetman Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray (born 1944)
The
heir apparent
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is the present holder's son Hon. Peregrine John Dickinson Pearson (born 1994).
References
Attribution
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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1917
Noble titles created for UK MPs