Viscount Esher is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscountcy was bestowed in 1897 on Sir William Baliol Brett, 1st Baron Esher, upon his retirement as Master of the Rolls. Jump to: navigation, search The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... The Master of the Rolls is the third most senior judge of England, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain traditionally being first and the Lord Chief Justice second. ...
WILLIAM BALIOL BRETT ESHER, 1ST Viscount (1817-1899), English lawyer and master of the rolls, was a son of the Rev. Joseph G. Brett, of Chelsea, and was born on the 13th of August 1817.
Lord Esher suffered, perhaps, as master of the rolls from succeeding a lawyer of such eminence as Jessel.
He retired from the bench at the close of 1897, and a viscounty was conferred upon him on his retirement, a dignity never given to any judge, lord chancellors excepted, "for mere legal conduct since the time of Lord Coke." He died in London on the 24th of May 1899.
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