Earl of Gosford

Earl of Gosford
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford

Earl of Gosford is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1806 for Arthur Acheson, 2nd Viscount Gosford. The Acheson family descends from the Scottish statesman Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet of Edinburgh, who later settled in Markethill, County Armagh. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland, as a Senator of Justice (with the title Lord Glencairnie), as an Extraordinary Lord of Session and as Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1628 he was created a Baronet, of Glencairny in the County of Armagh, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, with remainder to his heirs male whatsoever. He was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, the second Baronet. He died married but childless at an early age and was succeeded by his half-brother, the third Baronet.

His son, the fourth Baronet, represented County Armagh in the Irish House of Commons. On his death the title passed to his son, the fifth Baronet. He sat as Member of the Irish Parliament for Mullingar. His son, the sixth Baronet, represented Dublin University and Enniskillen in the Irish House of Commons. In 1776 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Gosford, of Market Hill in the County of Armagh, and in 1785 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Gosford, of Market Hill in the County of Armagh, also in the Peerage of Ireland.

He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount. He sat in the Irish Parliament as the representative for Old Leighlin from 1783 to 1790. In 1806 he was created Earl of Gosford in the Peerage of Ireland. Since then, heirs apparent to the earldom have traditionally used the invented courtesy title of Viscount Acheson. His son, the second Earl, sat on the Whig benches in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1811 to 1849 and served under Lord Melbourne as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in 1834 and 1835. Between 1835 and 1838 he was Governor General of British North America. Lord Gosford married Mary, daughter of Robert Sparrow of Worlingham Hall in Suffolk. In 1835 he was created Baron Worlingham, of Beccles in the County of Suffolk, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him and his descendants an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

He was succeeded by his son, the third Earl. He represented County Armagh in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1847. The latter year, two years before he succeeded his father in the earldom, he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in his own right as Baron Acheson, of Clancairny in the County of Armagh. His son, the fourth Earl, served as Lord-Lieutenant of County Armagh and was also a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the fifth Earl. He was a Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War. His eldest son, the sixth Earl, sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Harold Macmillan as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1958 to 1959. As of 2010 the titles are held by his only son, the seventh Earl, who succeeded in 1966.

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Acheson Baronets, of Glencairny (1628)

  • Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet (d. 1634)
  • Sir Patrick Acheson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1611–6 October 1638). Acheson was the son of Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet, by his first wife Agnes Vernor. He married Martha, daughter of William Moore, in 1634. They had no children. On his early death in 1638 the title passed to his half-brother, George Acheson.
  • Sir George Acheson, 3rd Baronet (4 August 1629–1685). Acheson was the son of Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Margaret Hamilton, and succeeded in the baronetcy upon the death of his half-brother in 1638. Acheson was Sheriff of County Armagh in 1657 and Sheriff of County Tyrone in 1657. He married firstly, Nichola Hannay, daughter of Sir Robert Hannay, 1st Baronet, on 23 January 1654. He married secondly the Hon. Margaret Caulfield (b. 1638), daughter of William Caufield, 2nd Lord Charlemont, and his wife Mary King, on 3 November 1659. Acheson died in 1685 and was succeeded by his son, Archibald.
  • Sir Nicholas Acheson, 4th Baronet (c. 1656–1701)
  • Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Baronet (1688–1749)
    • Nicholas Acheson (c. 1716–1717)
  • Sir Archibald Acheson, 6th Baronet (1718–1790) (created Viscount Gosford in 1785)

Viscounts Gosford (1785)

Earls of Gosford (1806)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's first cousin Nicholas Hope Carter Acheson (b. 1947). He is the eldest son of the Hon. Patrick Bernard Victor Montagu Acheson (1915–2005), second son of the fifth Earl.

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