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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]
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.
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 .
Lord Londonderry was an accomplished public speaker and, before succeeding his father as Marquess in 1949, was the Unionist Member of Parliament for Down in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1945.
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.
The eldest surviving son of the 1st Marquess, and therefore George Vane's uncle, was the statesman Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, who had succeeded as 2nd Marquess only 20 days before George's birth. The 2nd Marquess died the next year, and George's father succeeded as 3rd Marquess; George thereby became Lord George Vane.
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.
Lord Londonderry died on 6 April 1821 at Mount Stewart, County Down, and was buried at the Newtownards Priory, where his father already had been laid to rest. He was succeeded briefly as the 2nd Marquess of Londonderry by his eldest son Robert (Castlereagh) who took his own life the following year.