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{{short description|Earldom in the Peerage of Great Britain}}

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{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}
{{Infobox nobility title
| name              = Earldom of Eltham
| image             = [[File:Coronet of a British Marquess.svg|120px|centre]][[File:Coat of arms of Adolphus, marquess of Cambridge.svg|150px|Arms of the Marquess of Cambridge]] 
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| caption           = 
| creation_date     = 16 July 1917 
| creation          = Second 
| monarch           = [[George V]] 
| peerage           = [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]] 
| baronetage        =  
| first_holder      = [[Adolphus Cambridge]] 
| last_holder       = [[George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge|George Cambridge]] 
| present_holder    =  
| heir_apparent     =  
| heir_presumptive  =  
| remainder_to      = The 1st Earl’s [[heirs male of the body]] lawfully begotten 
| subsidiary_titles = Viscount Northallerton 
| status            = Extinct 
| extinction_date   = 16 April 1981 
| family_seat       =  
| former_seat       =  
| motto             = '''FIDES ET FIDELIS''' <br /> ''(Fearless and faithful)'' 
| footnotes         =  
}}

The title of '''Earl of Eltham''' has been created twice as a subsidiary title.  The first creation was in the [[Peerage of Great Britain]] in 1726 as a subsidiary title for the [[Frederick, Prince of Wales|Duke of Edinburgh]], eldest son of the [[George II of Great Britain|Prince of Wales]].  This merged in the crown in 1760.

The second creation was in 1917 in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]] for the [[Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge|Duke of Teck]], brother of [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]], who gave up his German titles for the British title of [[Marquess of Cambridge]].

==Earls of Eltham, first creation (1726)==
*[[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] (1707-1751)
*[[George III of the United Kingdom|George, Prince of Wales]] (1738-1820), merged in crown 1760.

==Earls of Eltham, second creation (1917)==
*''see [[Marquess of Cambridge]]''

== Family trees ==
{{Dukes of Gloucester and Edinburgh family tree}}
{{Dukes of Cambridge family tree}}


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