The title Earl of Gosford was created in 1806 for Arthur Acheson, 2nd Viscount Gosford. The subsidiary titles held along with the Earldom are: Viscount Gosford (created 1785), Baron Gosford (1776), Baron Worlingham of Beccles (1835) and Baron Acheson (1847). The barony, viscountcy and earldom of Gosford are in the Peerage of Ireland, while the remaining baronies are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. ... 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. ...
Arthur Acheson, 2nd Viscount Gosford (c. 1745-1807) (became Earl of Gosford in 1806)
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f.l.t.r.: The Marquess of Dorset, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl of Essex, Earl of Kent, Earl of Derby, Earl of Wiltshire.
An official defining characteristic of an earl still consisted of the receipt of the "third penny", one-third of the revenues of justice of a shire, that later became a fixed sum.
The eldest son of an Earl generally bears the courtesy title of Viscount or Lord; one refers to a younger son of an earl as the Honourable [Forename] [Surname] and to a daughter as Lady [Forename] [Surname] (Lady Diana Spencer furnishing a well-known example).
The 1st Earl's family and personal fortune was derived largely from mining on lands surrounding Lambton Castle, the ancestral family home in County Durham.
He was maternal grandson of the 4th Earl of Jersey and his wife, who was a mistress to the Prince of Wales, later George IV.
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