Viscount Cobham

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Viscount Cobham was a British aristocrat and politician best known for developing the grand estate and political landscape at Stowe, making it a symbol of 18th-century Whig power and taste.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf noble title
associatedWith Stowe House
surface form: Stowe House and Gardens
associatedWithPlace Buckinghamshire
Stowe
category British viscountcies
Titles in the Peerage of England
Titles in the Peerage of Great Britain
country England
Kingdom of Great Britain
createdFor Richard Temple
creationDate 1718
familySeat Stowe House
genderRestriction primarily male-preference succession
hasHereditaryStatus hereditary peerage
hasTitleHolder Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
Charles Lyttelton, 12th Viscount Cobham
Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham
Christopher Lyttelton, 14th Viscount Cobham
Christopher Lyttelton, 14th Viscount Cobham
surface form: Christopher Lyttelton, 16th Viscount Cobham

Christopher Lyttelton, 14th Viscount Cobham
surface form: Christopher Lyttelton, 17th Viscount Cobham

Hester Grenville, Countess of Chatham
surface form: Hester Grenville, 2nd Viscountess Cobham

John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham
John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham
surface form: John Lyttelton, 13th Viscount Cobham

John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham
surface form: John Lyttelton, 15th Viscount Cobham

John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
surface form: Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple and 3rd Viscount Cobham

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
influenced English landscape garden style
surface form: English landscape garden movement
influencedBy classical architecture
Palladian architecture
surface form: neo-Palladianism
languageOfTitle English
linkedFamily Grenville political family
surface form: Grenville family

Lyttelton family
Temple family
monarchAtCreation George I of Great Britain
nobleRank viscount
notableFor association with Whig political power
development of the estate at Stowe
influence on 18th-century British politics
patronage of landscape gardening at Stowe
peerageOf Peerage of England
Peerage of Great Britain
politicalAlignment Whig Party
precedence above a baron
below an earl
styleOfAddress The Right Honourable
symbolOf 18th-century Whig power
18th-century aristocratic taste

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Stowe landscape gardens associatedWith Viscount Cobham
Stowe House formerSeatOf Viscount Cobham
this entity surface form: Viscounts Cobham
Lyttelton family hasTitle Viscount Cobham
Temple family titleHeld Viscount Cobham
Stowe Gardens designedFor Viscount Cobham
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham createdPeerageTitle Viscount Cobham
this entity surface form: Viscount Cobham in the Peerage of Great Britain