Viscount

Viscount

A viscount ( /ˈvaɪkaʊnt/ "vie-count", for male) or viscountess (for female) is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in the United Kingdom) or a count (the earl's continental equivalent).

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    “What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.”
    —Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)

    “Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
    —William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    “Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”
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