Earl of Snowdon

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox nobility title Earl of Snowdon is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1961, together with the subsidiary title of Viscount Linley, of Nymans in the County of Sussex, by Queen Elizabeth II for her then-brother-in-law, Antony Armstrong-Jones,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> who married Princess Margaret in 1960.

Titles

Choice of names

Snowdon, chosen for the earldom, had previously been used for a peerage title with royal associations. The title of Baron Snowdon had been conferred in 1726 along with the Dukedom of Edinburgh on Prince Frederick Louis, grandson of George I and future Prince of Wales. It merged with the Crown in 1760, when its holder acceded as George III.

Linley, chosen for the viscountcy, comes from the 1st Earl of Snowdon's maternal great-grandfather, the English cartoonist and illustrator Edward Linley Sambourne.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite book</ref>

Nymans, chosen as territorial designation of the viscountcy, relates to an English garden near Handcross in West Sussex, where Anne Armstrong-Jones, née Messel, Countess of Rosse, mother of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, had grown up.<ref name="auto"/>

Life peerage

In November 1999, the 1st Earl of Snowdon received a life peerage as Baron Armstrong-Jones,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> under a device designed to allow first-generation hereditary peers to retain their seats in the House of Lords, after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

Earls of Snowdon (1961)

• File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930–2017)
  • File:Coronet of a Child of a Daughter of the Sovereign.svg David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (born 1961)
    • (1) Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (b. 1999)

Template:Tree list/end The heir apparent is the present holder's only son, Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (b. 1999). He is alone in the line of succession to the earldom.

Coats of arms

• Coat of Arms of Antony, Earl of Snowdon.svg

  Arms of the 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO

• Coat of arms of Antony Armstrong-Jones as 1st Earl of Snowdon.png

  Arms of the 2nd Earl of Snowdon

• Arms Armstrong-Jones with cadency.png

  Arms of the 2nd Earl of Snowdon's heir apparent Charles, Viscount Linley

Notes

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External links

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• Cracroft's Peerage page