Viscount Maugham

Viscount Maugham, of Hartfield in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He had already been created a life peer under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Baron Maugham, of Hartfield in the County of Sussex, on 7 October 1935.

On Lord Maugham's death in 1958 the life barony became extinct while he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his only son, the second Viscount.

Viscount Maugham was the author of 'U.N.O and War Crimes' published by John Murray, 1951.

The author W. Somerset Maugham was the younger brother of the first Viscount.