Viscount Plumer
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Viscount Plumer, of Messines and of Bilton in the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
. It was created in 1929 for the soldier and colonial official Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Baron Plumer
. He had already been created Baron Plumer, of Messines and of Bilton in the County of York, in 1919, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Both titles became extinct after the death of his son and successor, the second Viscount, in 1944.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
. It was created in 1929 for the soldier and colonial official Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Baron Plumer
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE was a British colonial official and soldier born in Torquay who commanded the British Second Army in World War I and later served as High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine.-Military...
. He had already been created Baron Plumer, of Messines and of Bilton in the County of York, in 1919, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Both titles became extinct after the death of his son and successor, the second Viscount, in 1944.
Viscount Plumer (1929)
- Herbert Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount PlumerHerbert Plumer, 1st Viscount PlumerField Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE was a British colonial official and soldier born in Torquay who commanded the British Second Army in World War I and later served as High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine.-Military...
(1857–1932) - Thomas Hall Rokeby Plumer, 2nd Viscount Plumer (1890–1944)