The peerage title Viscount Kingston, has been created twice, once in Ireland and once in Scotland. The Scottish creation, which is actually rendered as Viscount of Kingston, was created in 1651 for Alexander Seton, and was forfeited in 1715 when the third viscount was attainted.
The Irish title was created in 1768 as a subsidiary title for the Earl of Kingston, and is still extant.
Read more about Viscount Kingston: Viscount of Kingston, Peerage of Scotland (1651), Viscount Kingston, Peerage of Ireland (1768)
Famous quotes containing the word viscount:
“Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)