Earl Amherst

Earl Amherst (/ˈæmərst/), of Arracan in the East Indies, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He was made Viscount Holmesdale, in the County of Kent, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

In 1776, he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Amherst, of Holmesdale in the County of Kent, with normal remainder to heirs male of his body.

He was a soldier and politician, who in 1880 had been summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Amherst.

William Amherst, brother of the first baron and father of the first earl, was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army.