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Lord Lansdowne holds the subsidiary titles of Earl Wycombe, of Chipping Wycombe in the County of Buckingham (1784), Earl of Kerry (1723), Earl of Shelburne (1753), Viscount Calne and Calstone (1784), Viscount Clanmaurice (1723), Viscount Fitzmaurice (1751), Baron Wycombe, of Chipping Wycombe in the County of Buckingham (1760), Baron Kerry and Lixnaw (1223), and Baron Dunkeron (1751). The subsidiary titles are all in the Peerage of Ireland, except for the Earldom and Barony of Wycombe and the Viscountcy of Calne and Calstone, which are in the Peerage of Great Britain. The courtesy title for the Lord Lansdowne's eldest son and heir alternates between Earl of Kerry and Earl of Shelburne.

1 Earls of Shelburne, First Creation ( 1719)

• Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne ( 1675- 1751)

2 Earls of Shelburne, Second Creation ( 1753)

• John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne ( 1706- 1761)
• William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne ( 1737- 1805) (became Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784)

3 Marquesses of Lansdowne ( 1784)

• William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1737- 1805)
• John Petty-Fitzmaurice, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1765- 1809)
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of LansdowneHenry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1780- 1863), Son of the 1st Marquess by his second marriage, was born on 2 July 1780 and educated at Edinburgh University and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the House of Commons in 1802 as me ( 1780Events January 16 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent February, Armed Neutrality of the North alliance formed between Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. March 26 The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor the first Sunday newspaper in Britain May- 1863Events January-March January 1 Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War. January 1 The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska January 8 Ground is broken in Sacramen)
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1816Events March 25 Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg.- 1866)
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1845- 1927)
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1872- 1936)
• Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1917- 1944)
• George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 1912- 1999)
• Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne (b. 1941)

See also: Bowood House