Viscount Leathers, of Purfleet in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1954 for the businessman, Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician and public servant Frederick Leathers, 1st Baron Leathers

Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers

Frederick James Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers CH PC was a British industrialist and public servant....

. He had already been created Baron Leathers, of Purfleet in the County of Essex, in 1941, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1996.

Viscounts Leathers (1954)

• Frederick James Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers
  Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers
  Frederick James Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers CH PC was a British industrialist and public servant....
  
   (1883–1965)
• Frederick Alan Leathers, 2nd Viscount Leathers (1908–1996)
• Christopher Graeme Leathers, 3rd Viscount Leathers (b. 1941)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. James Frederick Leathers (b. 1969)