Earl of Lovelace
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The title Earl of Lovelace was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1838 for the 8th Baron King.
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles Viscount Ockham, of Ockham in the County of Surrey (1838), in the Peerage of the UK and Lord King, Baron of Ockham in the County of Surrey (1725), in the Peerage of Great Britain.
The 2nd Earl also held the title Baron Wentworth (1529), a Barony by Writ in the Peerage of England. (See Baron Wentworth for the history of that title.)
The family seat is Torridon House, near Torridon in Ross-shire.
[edit] Barons King (1725)
- Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669-1734)
- John King, 2nd Baron King (1706-1740)
- Peter King, 3rd Baron King (1709-1754)
- William King, 4th Baron King (1711-1767)
- Thomas King, 5th Baron King (1712-1779)
- Peter King, 6th Baron King (1736-1793)
- Peter King, 7th Baron King (1776-1833)
- William King, 8th Baron King (1805-1893) (became Earl of Lovelace in 1838)
[edit] Earls of Lovelace (1838)
- William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace (1805-1893), husband of Ada Lovelace
- Ralph Gordon Noel King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace (1839-1906)
- Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace (1865-1929)
- Peter Malcolm King, 4th Earl of Lovelace (1905-1964)
- Peter Axel William Locke King, 5th Earl of Lovelace (b. 1951)
There is no heir to the Earldom.
