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Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, KG, MVO, PC, PC (Ire) (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peer and politician.
The title was created in 1816 for Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry.He had earlier represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons.Stewart had already been created Baron Londonderry in 1789, [3] Viscount Castlereagh, of Castlereagh in the County of Down, [4] [5] in 1795 and Earl of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, in 1796. [6]
Robert was born on 27 September 1739, at Mount Stewart, [1] the eldest son of Alexander Stewart and his wife Mary Cowan. His father was an alderman of Derry in 1760, and his grandfather, Colonel William Stewart, had commanded one of the two companies of Protestant soldiers that Derry admitted into its walls when Mountjoy was sent there by Tyrconnell before the start of the siege. [2]
Quartered arms of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, KG. Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, [1] derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh [a] (UK: / ˈ k ɑː s əl r eɪ / KAH-səl-ray) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Irish-born British statesman and politician.
Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH, PC (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854), was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier and a politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars , in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 , and in the Napoleonic wars .
Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCVO, CB, PC, JP, DL (16 July 1852 – 8 February 1915), styled Viscount Castlereagh between 1872 and 1884, was a British Conservative politician, landowner and benefactor, who served in various capacities in the Conservative administrations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Titles and office followed. In 1795 Alexander's son, Robert Stewart (1739–1821) was elevated to Earl of Londonderry (Marquess in 1816), [3] and in 1797 his son Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769–1822), was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland by the Lord Lieutenant, Londonderry's brother-in-law, John Pratt, Earl Camden. [4]
Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart (born 13 June 1934) Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry (7 September 1937 – 20 June 2012) Lord Londonderry was a celebrated host and practical joker, reportedly once decorating the Christmas tree at Wynyard with condoms to startle a visiting cleric.