• Earl of Darlington is a title that has been created twice, each time in the Peerage of Great Britain. Baroness von Kielmansegg, half-sister of King George...
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    Baron Barnard (category Baronies in the Peerage of England)
    Paymaster of the Forces and as Lord Lieutenant of County Durham. In 1754 he was created Viscount Barnard (of Barnard Castle) and Earl of Darlington, both...
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    Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, KG (27 July 1766 – 29 January 1842), styled Viscount Barnard until 1792 and known as The Earl of Darlington between 1792 and...
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    dukedom of Cleveland, the title became extinct. The dukedom of Cleveland was created again on 29 January 1833 for William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington, along...
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  • Their past employer, the Earl of Darlington, has died a broken man, his reputation destroyed by his pre-Second World War support of Nazi Germany, and his...
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  • Governor of Massachusetts Bay, son of Henry Vane the Elder Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington (1705–1758), PC (c. ) Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (1726–1792)...
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    Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (1726 – 8 September 1792) was a British peer. He was the son of the 1st Earl of Darlington and educated at Christ Church...
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    1st Earl of Darlington, PC (c. 1705 – 6 March 1758), known as Lord Barnard between 1753 and 1754, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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    the Earls of Darlington and Dukes of Cleveland added a Gothic-style entrance hall and octagonal drawing room. From 1833 to 1891 they were the Dukes of Cleveland...
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  • cricketer Darlington Michaels, South African actor Darlington Nagbe, American footballer Those who held the position of Earl of Darlington Lord Darlington, a...
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    Countess of Darlington, born 28 March 1697, married in 1725 Henry Vane, Earl of Darlington. Their grandson later became William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland...
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    William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, PC, FRS (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from...
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    mistress, the 1st Duchess of Cleveland. Together with the dukedom, Charles Fitzroy also received the subsidiary titles of Earl of Chichester and Baron Newbury...
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    Anne Vane (category Court of George II of Great Britain)
    Barnard, and sister to the politician Henry Vane who was the first Earl of Darlington. Her mother, Mary (born Randyll), was described as "scandalous" by...
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    Baron Inglewood (category Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    great-great-grandsons of Hon. Morgan Vane, younger son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard, whose eldest son, the third Baron, was created Earl of Darlington, and from...
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  • 1st Earl of Darlington 21 March 1753 – 6 March 1758 Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington 11 July 1758 – 8 September 1792 William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland...
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    Darlington is a small, inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlington is located about three kilometres south of the Sydney central...
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    in March 1819, but as the route passed through Earl of Eldon's estate and one of the Earl of Darlington's fox coverts, it was opposed and defeated by 13...
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  • the Peerage as Marquess of Cleveland in 1827 and further as Duke of Cleveland in 1833, whereupon Barnard became Earl of Darlington after the first promotion...
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  • peer, the son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (1726–1792), English peer, the son of the 1st Earl John Vane, 11th...
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    Earls of Mercia, p. 31; PASE, s.v. Northman 5[permanent dead link]; Sawyer 931 Baxter, Earls of Mercia, pp. 29–30, and n. 45 for reference Darlington...
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    Banastre Tarleton (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington as colonel of the Princess of Wales's Fencible Dragoons in 1799. Tarleton was appointed colonel of the 21st Light Dragoons...
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    of The Cock in Feather and The Trimm'd Cock. Other engraved pictures are Hap-hazard and Muly Moloch, racehorses belonging to the Earl of Darlington,...
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  • Francis Forester (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    Forester had pursued his military career until he married a daughter of the Earl of Darlington, with whom he served in Portugal in 1808 and 1809. At the 1820...
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  • Robert Clive (1789–1854) (category Younger sons of earls)
    the parish of St George's, Hanover Square, London, a younger son of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis. His mother was Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry Herbert...
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  • Frederick Vane (category Younger sons of earls)
    28 April 1801) was a British politician, the second son of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington. He sat on the family interest for County Durham from 1761...
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    John Stanwix George III (1760–1820): July 1763: Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington 22 September 1792: Lt Gen. Montgomery Agnew 8 September 1818: Lt Gen...
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  • Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington 1758–1795: Vacant 1795–1842: William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington (Marquess of Cleveland 1827–1833, Duke of Cleveland from 1833)...
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  • Raby Vane (category Younger sons of earls)
    Member of Parliament, a younger son of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington. Vane was born on 2 January 1736, the third son of Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington...
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    practice of hauling coal over 40 miles (64 km) to the nearest port - he leased a colliery on Cockfield Fell, from Sir Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington of Raby...
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