Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 – 12 July 1978), was a British Conservative politician and press magnate.

As his father dabbled in association with the Nazis and a flirtation with becoming King of Hungary, it fell to Harmsworth to manage the businesses.

Harmsworth was the first Chancellor of Memorial University and the benefactor who provided the funds to construct Rothermere House.

She was the daughter of Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (second son of the 11th Earl of Wemyss) and Frances Lucy Tennant.

[3] Lord Rothermere married, thirdly, Mary Murchison, daughter of Kenneth Murchison, on 28 March 1966, by whom he had a second son:[4] Lord Rothermere died on 12 July 1978, aged 80, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Vere Harmsworth.