Earl of Dover

The title Earl of Dover has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England occurred in 1628 when Henry Carey, 4th Baron Hunsdon was created Earl of Dover, in the County of Kent. He was succeeded in 1666 by his son, the second Earl. He had already in 1640 been summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Hunsdon. However, on his death in 1677 the viscountcy and earldom became extinct.

Earl of Dover

The title Earl of Dover has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England occurred in 1628 when Henry Carey, 4th Baron Hunsdon was created Earl of Dover, in the County of Kent. He was succeeded in 1666 by his son, the second Earl. He had already in 1640 been summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Hunsdon. However, on his death in 1677 the viscountcy and earldom became extinct.