Viscount
A viscount ( /ˈvaɪkaʊnt/ "vie-count", for male) or viscountess (for female) is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in the United Kingdom) or a count (the earl's continental equivalent).
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“They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)
“What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.”
—Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)