Viscount Northcliffe

Viscount Northcliffe

The title Viscount Northcliffe, of St Peter in the County of Kent, was created in 1918 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for the famous press baron Alfred Harmsworth. He had already been created a Baronet in 1904 and Baron Northcliffe, of the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent, in 1905. All these titles became extinct on his death in 1922. Lord Northcliffe was the elder brother of Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere and Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.

Viscounts Northcliffe (1918)

*Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922)

ee also

*Viscount Rothermere
*Baron Harmsworth


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