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Viscount Wolverhampton

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Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton.

Viscount Wolverhampton, of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 4 May 1908 for the Liberal politician Henry Fowler. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, on 9 March 1943.

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler, daughters of the first Viscount, were both authors.

Viscounts Wolverhampton (1908)

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Arms

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Coat of arms of Viscount Wolverhampton
Crest
Upon a rock a stork Argent holding in the beak a cross-moline Sable.
Escutcheon
Per pale Gules and Sable on a chevron between in chief two lions passant and in base a portcullis all Argent a rose of the first barbed and seeded Proper.
Supporters
Dexter a wolf Or charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon Gules thereon two keys in saltire wards upwards Argent sinister a Royal tiger Or striped Sable charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon Azure thereon an estoile Argent.
Motto
In Te Domine Speravi[2]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 28134". The London Gazette. 5 May 1908. p. 3312.
  2. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1921.