Earl of Newport
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The title Earl of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, was created in the Peerage of England in 1628 for the 1st Baron Mountjoy, an illegitimate son of the 1st Earl of Devonshire. It became extinct upon the death of the 4th Earl in 1679.
The Earls held the subsidiary titles Baron Mountjoy, of Mountjoy Fort in the County of Tyrone (1618), in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Mountjoy, of Thurveston in the County of Derby (1627), in the Peerage of England. The latter title was created with precedence ahead of those barons created between 20 May and 5 June1627. This precedence was later revoked by the House of Lords. The family surname was pronounced "Blunt".
