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

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{{Infobox nobility title
| name = Earldom of Castleton
| image = [[File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg|150px]] [[File:COA Saunderson (Castleton).svg|180px]]
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = ''Paly of six, argent and azure, a bend, sable, three annulets or''
| creation_date = 18 June 1720
| creation =
| monarch = [[George I of Great Britain|George I]]
| peerage = [[Peerage of Great Britain]]
| baronetage =
| first_holder = [[James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton|James Saunderson, 6th Viscount Castleton]]
| last_holder = [[James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton|James Saunderson, 1st Earl]]
| remainder_to = Heirs male of the first earl's body lawfully begotton
| subsidiary_titles = Viscount Castleton (GB, 1716) Viscount Castleton (Ire, 1627) Baron Saunderson (GB, 1714) Baron Saunderson (Ire, 1627) Baronet (of Saxby)
| status = Extinct
| extinction_date = 23 May 1723
| family_seat = [[Sandbeck Park]] [[Castle Saunderson]]
| motto = ''Je suis veillant à plaire'' ("I am watchful to please") or ''Sans Dieu rien'' ("Without God, nothing")<ref>{{cite book|last1=Burke|first1=John|last2=Burke|first2=Bernard|title=A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT915|publisher=Edward Churton|page=915|language=en|date=1842}}</ref>
| footnotes =
}}
The title '''Earl Castleton''', of [[Sandbeck Park|Sandbeck]] in the [[Yorkshire|County of York]], was created in the [[Peerage of Great Britain]] in 1720 for the [[James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton|6th Viscount Castleton]], who had previously been created '''Baron Saunderson''', of Saxby in the [[Lincolnshire|County of Lincoln]], in 1714, and '''Viscount Castleton''', of Sandbeck in the County of York, in 1716, both also in the Peerage of Great Britain.<ref name="burke">{{cite web|last1=Burke|first1=Sir Bernard|title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA473|publisher=Harrison|page=473|language=en|date=1866}}</ref>

The title '''Viscount Castleton''', in the [[County Limerick|County of Limerick]], had been created in the [[Peerage of Ireland]] in 1627, along with the subsidiary title '''Baron Saunderson''', of Bantry in the [[County Cork|County of Cork]], for [[Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton|Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Baronet]], who had been created a '''Baronet''', styled "of Saxby in the County of Lincoln", in the [[Baronetage of England]], in 1611.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092524374#page/n121/mode/2up George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage Volume 1'' 1900]</ref>

All of the titles became extinct on the death of the 1st Earl in 1723. His estates passed to his cousin [[Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough|Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lumley]], who thereupon took the additional surname of Saunderson by Act of Parliament and subsequently succeeded as 3rd [[Earl of Scarbrough]].<ref>''Burke's Peerage'' (1939 edition, s.v. Scarbrough, Earl). </ref>

==Saunderson Baronets (1611)==
*[[Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton|Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Baronet]] (1561–1630) (created Viscount Castleton in 1627)

==Viscounts Castleton (1627)==
*[[Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton]] (1561–1630)
*[[Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton]] (d. 1640)
*[[Nicholas Saunderson, 3rd Viscount Castleton]] (1625–1641)
*[[Peregrine Saunderson, 4th Viscount Castleton]] (1628–1650)
*[[George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton]] (1631–1714)
*[[James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton|James Saunderson, 6th Viscount Castleton]] (1667–1723) (created Earl Castleton in 1720)

==Earls Castleton (1720)==
*[[James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton]] (1667–1723)

==References==
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| title= Saunderson Baronets
| years= 25 November 1611
| before= [[Essex Baronets]]
| after= [[Gostwick Baronets]]
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[[Category:Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Great Britain]]
[[Category:Noble titles created in 1720]]
[[Category:1720 establishments in Great Britain]]

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