Viscount Rothermere
Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the county of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. He had already been created a baronet, of Horsey in the County of Norfolk, on 14 July 1910, and Baron Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, in 1914. Every holder of the titles has served as chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1998.
The first Viscount Rothermere was the younger brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and the elder brother of Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet.
The family seat is Ferne House, near Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire.
Harmsworth baronets (1910)
- Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Baronet
Baron Rothermere (1914)
- Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Baron Rothermere
Viscount Rothermere (1919)
- Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
- *Hon. Harold Alfred Vyvyan St George Harmsworth
- Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere
- Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere
- Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere
Line of succession
- 15px Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
- *15px Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere
- **15px Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere
- ***15px Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere
- ****' Hon. Vere Richard Jonathan Harold Harmsworth
- ****' Hon. Alfred Northcliffe St. John Harmsworth