Viscount Clermont, of Clermont in the County of Louth, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...

. It was created in 1776 for William Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont

William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont

William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont KP was an Irish peer and politician.He served as High Sheriff of Louth in 1746. He became Earl of Clermont in 1777 and was appointed a Knight Founder of the Order of St Patrick on 30 March 1795...

, with remainder in default of male issue of his own to his brother James Fortescue

James Fortescue

James Fortescue was an Irish politician.He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dundalk between 1757 and 1760 and County Louth between 1761 and his death...

 and the heirs male of his body. He was the son of Thomas Fortescue

Thomas Fortescue (1683–1769)

Thomas Fortescue was an Irish Member of Parliament.By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Hamilton, granddaughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt and sister of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil, he was father of William Henry Fortescue, later Earl of Clermont; James Fortescue, an...

. Fortescue had already been made Baron Clermont, of Clermont in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of Ireland in 1770, with normal remainder to heirs male, and was made Baron Clermont, of Clermont in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of Ireland at the same time as he was granted the viscountcy, also with remainder to his brother James Fortescue. In 1777 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Clermont, in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of Ireland, with normal remainder to heirs male. Lord Clermont died without male issue in 1806 when the barony of 1770 and earldom became extinct. He was succeeded in the barony of 1776 and viscountcy according to the special remainder by his nephew William Fortescue, the second Viscount, the son of the aforementioned James Fortescue. The second Viscount Clermont represented County Louth

Louth (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Louth was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.-1692–1801:-References:...

 in both the Irish and British Parliaments and was an Irish Representative Peer. He died unmarried in 1829 when the barony and viscountcy became extinct.

The Clermont title was revived in 1852 when Thomas Fortescue

Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont

Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont , was an Irish Whig politician.-Background and education:Fortescue was the son of Chichester Fortescue, of Dromisken, County Louth, by Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade Hobson, a barrister, of Muchridge House, County Cork. Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue,...

 was made Baron Clermont

Baron Clermont

Baron Clermont is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. All three creations are extinct. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 26 May 1770 for William Fortescue, who was later made Viscount and Earl...

. He was a descendant of Chichester Fortescue, brother of William Fortescue, grandfather of the first Earl of Clermont.

Viscounts Clermont (1776)

• William Henry Fortescue, 1st Viscount Clermont
  William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
  William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont KP was an Irish peer and politician.He served as High Sheriff of Louth in 1746. He became Earl of Clermont in 1777 and was appointed a Knight Founder of the Order of St Patrick on 30 March 1795...
  
   (1722–1806) (created Earl of Clermont in 1777)

Earls of Clermont (1777)

• William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
  William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont
  William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont KP was an Irish peer and politician.He served as High Sheriff of Louth in 1746. He became Earl of Clermont in 1777 and was appointed a Knight Founder of the Order of St Patrick on 30 March 1795...
  
   (1722–1806)

Viscounts Clermont (1776; Reverted)

• William Charles Fortescue, 2nd Viscount Clermont (1764–1829)