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Marquess of Willingdon

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The marquessate of Willingdon was the most recent marquessate to be created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The most recently created
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spelling of the Freeman-Thomas's ancestral home in Ratton, Sussex.) These titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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from 1948 to 1949. Though married three times, he was childless and all the titles became extinct upon his death in 1979.
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Upon his death in 1941, the 1st Marquess of Willingdon was succeeded by his only surviving son,
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2nd & 3rd: ermine two pallets in pale azure over all three fusils conjoined in fesse or
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Quarterly, 1st & 4th: Argent three lions rampant gules a chief azure
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Extinct marquessates in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon
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Hon. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas (4 May 1893  
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King Edward VIII
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon
Inigo Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Liberal
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon
Governor-General of Canada
Viceroy of India
County of Sussex
Willingdon
Domesday Book
Inigo
Liberal Chief Whip
House of Lords
Reading
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon

Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon
Burke, Sir Bernard
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood
"No. 34289"
The London Gazette
"No. 28398"
The London Gazette
"No. 32949"
The London Gazette
"No. 33692"
The London Gazette

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