Viscount Soulbury, of Soulbury in the County of Buckingham, 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 Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician the Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Baron Soulbury

Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury

Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician. He was a government minister between 1931 and 1941 and served as Governor-General of Ceylon between 1949 and 1954....

 at the end of his term as Governor-General of Ceylon

Governor-General of Ceylon

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. He had already been created Baron Soulbury, of Soulbury in the County of Buckingham, in 1941, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. the titles are held by his grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 2010.

Viscounts Soulbury (1954)

• Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
  Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
  Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician. He was a government minister between 1931 and 1941 and served as Governor-General of Ceylon between 1949 and 1954....
  
   (1887–1971)
• James Herwald Ramsbotham, 2nd Viscount Soulbury (1915–2004).

He lived in Ceylon/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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 from the late 1950s, where his father had been Governor-General, as a Hindu yogi under the name of Santhaswami. Although he ran the at the Sivathondan Nilayam at Chenkalady

Chenkalady

Chenkalady or Chenkaladi is a town in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka, it is located about 15 km north-west of Batticaloa. In Tamil it translates to "By-the-brick"....

 in Batticaloa

Batticaloa

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 he also used to spend a good deal of his time amongst the Veddas, aboriginal tribal peoples. He would go off for long periods of time to their strongholds deep in the jungles and forrests. Inevitably, one newspaper or another would "scoop" the story of his death. He would subsequently emerge again from one of these forays, wondering what all the fuss was about.

• Peter Edward Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, GCMG, GCVO (1919–2010). He did not use the title.
• Oliver Peter Ramsbotham, 4th Viscount Soulbury (b. 1943). He does not use the title.

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son, the Hon. (Edward) Herwald Ramsbotham (b. 1966).