Viscount

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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Famous quotes containing the word viscount:

    “Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”
    —William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    “I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.”
    —Edward F. Wood, Viscount Halifax (1881–1959)

    “This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French—but we are British, thank God.”
    —Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein Montgomery (1887–1976)