Earl Rivers

Earl Rivers was an English title, which has been created three times in the Peerage of England.

The first creation was made for Richard Woodville, 1st Baron Rivers, in 1466 and remained in this family until 1491.

In 1640 on the death of the 1st Earl, John succeeded to the 1613 reversion of the Darcy of Chiche barony, the Colchester viscountcy and the Rivers earldom; the 1551 creation of the Darcy of Chiche barony became extinct.

The earldom and the subsidiary titles became extinct when John Savage, 5th Earl Rivers, died in 1737.

A new Rivers barony, held by the family of Pitt and its later representative, that of Pitt-Rivers, was in existence from 1776 to 1880.