Earl Beatty is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1919 for the prominent naval commander Admiral of the Fleet

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 David Beatty

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO was an admiral in the Royal Navy...

. He was created Baron Beatty, of the North Sea and of Brooksby in the County of Leicester, and Viscount Borodale, of Wexford in the County of Wexford, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The latter title is used as a courtesy title

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 for the Earl's eldest son and heir apparent. Lord Beatty was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He represented Peckham

Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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 as a Conservative

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 from 1931 to 1936 and briefly served as Under-Secretary of State for Air

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 in Winston Churchill's

Winston Churchill

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 1945 caretaker government

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. the titles are held by his eldest son, the third Earl, who succeeded in 1972.

Earls Beatty (1919)

• David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
  David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
  Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO was an admiral in the Royal Navy...
  
   (1871–1936)
• David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty
  David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty
  David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty , known as Viscount Borodale from 1919 to 1936, was a British Conservative Party politician.-Family:...
  
   (1905–1972)
• David Beatty, 3rd Earl Beatty (b. 1946)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Sean David Beatty, Viscount Borodale (b. 1973)

The heir apparent's heir is his elder son, The Hon. Orlando Thomas Beatty (b. 2003)