The title of Earl Roberts, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1901 for Lord Roberts of Kandahar, the great British military hero. The Earldom and the Viscountcy awarded with it had the honour to be created with remainder to the Earl's daughters, as his sons had already predeceased him. The title became extinct upon the death of the 3rd Countess in 1955.
The first Earl bore the subsidiary titles of Viscount St Pierre (1901) and Baron Roberts of Kandahar (1892), the latter title becoming extinct on his death in 1914.
FREDERICK SLEIGH ROBERTSROBERTS, Earl (1832), British soldier, second son of General Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B., was born at Cawnpore, India, on the 30th of September 1832.
Roberts distinguished himself at the engagement of Khudaganj, on the 2nd of January 1858, by capturing, in single-handed combat, a standard from two sepoys, and also by cutting down a sepoy about to kill a sowar.
Roberts now recommended the political dismemberment of Afghanistan, and negotiations were carried on with the northern tribes for the appointment of an amir for the Kabul district only.
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