Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was bestowed in 1914 upon Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, who had previously been created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1898 and Viscount Kitchener, of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, in 1902. The titles Viscount Broome, of Broome in the County of Kent, and Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent, were granted along with the Earldom.
Lord Kitchener's Barony was granted with a remainder to his heirs male; since he died without issue, the title became extinct upon his death. The later titles, however, were created with a special remainder that allowed them to pass to his brother, which they did.
Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry in Ireland, son of Henry Horatio Kitchener and Frances Anne Chevallier-Cole.
Conder and Kitchener’s expedition became known as the Survey of Western Palestine because it was largely confined to the area west of the Jordan River (Hodson 1997).
Kitchener was promoted to the highest Army rank, field marshal, in 1910; however, largely due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign, he was turned down for the post of Viceroy of India in 1911.
Lord Kitchener (1850-1916), British military officer and statesman, known for his conquest of the Sudan and as a symbol of British fighting spirit in the early part of World War I. Horatio Herber Kitchener was born June 24, 1850, in Ballylongford, county Kerry, Ireland, and educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
Kitchener served as governor-general of the Eastern Sudan in northeast Africa from 1886 to 1888.
Kitchener was promoted to the rank of major general in 1896 and raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartoum in 1898.
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