The title of Earl of Durham was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1833 for John George Lambton, 1st Baron Durham, a prominent Whig politician.
The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Lambton (1833) and Baron Durham (1828), both in the Peerage of the UK.
Earls of Durham (1833)
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