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English Viscounts extant from 1603


  • Viscount Montagu 1554 Browne extinct 1797
  • Viscount Howard of Bindon 1558 Howard extinct 1610
  • Viscount Purbeck 1619 Villiers extinct 1657
  • Viscount Saye and Sele 1624 Fiennes extinct 1781 created for William Fiennes, 8th Baron Saye and Sele
  • Viscount Wimbledon 1625 Cecil extinct 1638 also created Baron Cecil of Putney as subsidiary.
  • Viscount Bayning of Sudbury 1628 Bayning extinct 1638
  • Viscount Dorchester 1628 Carleton extinct 1632
  • Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon 1659 later Earls of Peterborough Mordaunt Extinct 1814
  • Viscountess Bayning of Foxley 1674 Murray extinct 1678
  • Viscounts Townshend of Raynham 1682 Townshend later Marquesses Townshend 1787
  • Viscounts Weymouth 1682 Thynne later Marquesses of Bath 1789
  • Viscounts Lonsdale 1696 Lowther extinct 1751
Viscount Montagu Howard of BindonViscount PurbeckViscount Saye and Sele Viscount Wimbledon Viscount Bayning of Sudbury Viscount Dorchester Viscount Townsend of RaynhamViscount WeymouthViscount Lonsdale

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