Viscount Waverley

Viscount Waverley, of Westdean in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 28 January 1952 for the civil servant and politician Sir John Anderson, who served variously as Governor of Bengal, Member of Parliament, Lord Privy Seal, Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer. As of 2017 the title is held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1990. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a cross-bencher.[2]

Viscounts Waverley (1952)

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882–1958)
David Alastair Pearson Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley (1911–1990)
John Desmond Forbes Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley (b. 1949)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Hon. Forbes Alastair Rupert Anderson (b. 1996).

Notes

"No. 39451". The London Gazette. 29 January 1952. p. 579.
"The 75 elected hereditary peers". BBC News. 5 November 1999.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

Extant viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

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Pre-1801	Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden Ferrard
Post-1801	Monck Gort

King George III	St Vincent Melville Sidmouth
The Prince Regent	Exmouth
King George IV	Combermere
Queen Victoria	Hill Hardinge Gough Bridport Portman Hampden Hambleden Knutsford Esher Goschen Ridley
King Edward VII	Colville of Culross Selby
King George V	Knollys Allendale Chilston Scarsdale Mersey Cowdray Devonport Astor Wimborne St Davids Rothermere Allenby Chelmsford Long Ullswater Younger of Leckie Bearsted Craigavon Bridgeman Hailsham Brentford Buckmaster Bledisloe Hanworth
King Edward VIII	Trenchard
King George VI	Samuel Runciman of Doxford Davidson Weir Caldecote Simon Camrose Stansgate Margesson Daventry Addison Kemsley Marchwood Montgomery of Alamein Waverley
Queen Elizabeth II	Thurso Brookeborough Norwich Leathers Soulbury Chandos Malvern De L'Isle Monckton of Brenchley Tenby Mackintosh of Halifax Dunrossil Stuart of Findhorn Rochdale Slim Head Boyd of Merton Mills Blakenham Eccles Dilhorne

Italics: This title is held by a peer who holds another of higher precedence.

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