Earl of Kimberley is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1866 for John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse, at the end of his tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Barony of Kimberley remains united with the Earldom.
Wodehouse, who was living as a tax exile in France, was interned by the Germans in 1940.
The Daily Express dubbed him Herr Wodehouse and Whitehall's anger at his behaviour punctuates the yellowing files that show how several Government departments tried to devise a ban on the publication of any new work.
Wodehouse had been arrested as a German collaborator after the liberation of Paris in 1944 but was finally released in January 1945 and moved to Long Island, New York, in 1947.
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