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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}<br />
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{{Infobox nobility title<br />
| name = Viscountcy of Chilston<br />
| image = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|150px|centre]][[File:Arms of the Viscount Chilston.svg|centre|200px]] <br />
| image_size = <br />
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| caption = Quarterly: ''1st and 4th, Argent a Man's Heart Gules ensigned with an Imperial Crown and pierced by an Arrow fesswise the pheon to the dexter proper on a Chief Azure three Mullets of the field (Douglas of Baads); 2nd and 3rd, Gules three Escallops Or within a Bordure Argent charged with eight Acorns proper (Akers)''<br />
| creation_date = 6 July 1911<br />
| creation = <br />
| monarch = [[George V of Great Britain|George V]] <br />
| peerage = [[Peerage of Great Britain]] <br />
| baronetage = <br />
| first_holder = [[Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston]] <br />
| last_holder = <br />
| present_holder = [[Alastair Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston|Alastair George Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston]] <br />
| heir_apparent = The Hon. Oliver Ian Akers-Douglas<br />
| heir_presumptive = <br />
| remainder_to = Heirs male of the body<br />
| subsidiary_titles = Baron Douglas of Baads<br />
| status = Extant <br />
| extinction_date = <br />
| family_seat = The Old Rectory<br />
| former_seat = <br />
| motto = '''SAPIENTIA ET VERITAS''' <br /> ''(Wisdom and truth)'' <br />
| footnotes = <br />
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'''Viscount Chilston''', of [[Boughton Malherbe]] in the [[County of Kent]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28512 |date=11 July 1911 |page=5168}}</ref> It was created in 1911 for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and former [[Home Secretary]], [[Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston|Aretas Akers-Douglas]]. The title derives from [[Chilston Park]], Akers-Douglas's country house in Kent. He was made '''Baron Douglas of Baads''', in the [[County of Midlothian]], at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son, the second Viscount, served as [[British Ambassador to Russia]] from 1933 to 1938. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, the third Viscount. {{As of|2010}} the titles are held by the latter's first cousin once removed, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1982. He is the grandson of the Hon. George Alexander Akers-Douglas, second son of the first Viscount.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/alastairvisountchilston.htm|website=douglashistory.co.uk|title=Alistair, 4th Viscount Chilston, Baron Douglas of Baads}}</ref><br />
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The family seat now is The Old Rectory, near [[Twyford, Hampshire|Twyford]], [[Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1179276| website=historicengland.org.uk| title=Old Rectory, Twyford}}</ref><br />
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==Viscounts Chilston (1911)==<br />
*[[Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston]] (1851–1926)<br />
*[[Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston]] (1876–1947)<br />
**[[Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas]] (1905–1940)<br />
*[[Eric Alexander Akers-Douglas, 3rd Viscount Chilston]] (1910–1982)<br />
*[[Alastair Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston|Alastair George Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston]] (b. 1946)<br />
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The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's eldest son the Hon. Oliver Ian Akers-Douglas (b. 1973)<br /><br />
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Ivo Aretas Akers-Douglas (b. 2007)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/203 | location=[[London]] |publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|page=203}}<br />
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}<br />
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}<br />
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-eric-akers-douglas | Eric Alexander Akers-Douglas, 3rd Viscount Chilston }}<br />
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-alastair-akers-douglas | Alastair George Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston }}<br />
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