Viscount Strangford was a title in the Peerage of Ireland

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. It was created in 1628 for Sir Thomas Smythe. The sixth Viscount was British ambassador to Portugal

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, Sweden

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, the Ottoman Empire

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 and Russia

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. In 1825 he was created Baron Penshurst, pf Penshurst in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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, enabling him and his descendants to sit in the House of Lords

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. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the seventh Viscount. He was a Conservative

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 politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young England

Young England

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 movement. He died young and was succeeded by his younger brother, the eighth Viscount. He was a man of letters. The titles became extinct on his death in 1869.

Viscounts Strangford (1628)

• Thomas Smythe, 1st Viscount Strangford (1599–1635)
• Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford
  Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford
  Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Smythe was the son of Thomas Smythe, 1st Viscount Strangford of Westenhanger and Sturry, Kent and his wife Lady Barbara Sidney, the daughter of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester...
  
   (1634–1708)
• Endymion Smythe, 3rd Viscount Strangford (d. 1724)
• Philip Smythe, 4th Viscount Strangford (1715–1787)
• Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford (1753–1801)
• Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
  Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
  Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.-Personal life:He was the son of Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford and Mary Eliza Philipse....
  
   (1780–1855)
• George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford
  George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford
  George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford , styled The Honourable George Smythe until 1855, was a British Conservative politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young England movement...
  
   (1818–1857)
• Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford
  Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford
  Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford was a British nobleman and man of letters....
  
  (1825–1869)