Viscount Scudamore

It was created on 1 July 1628 for the diplomat and politician Sir John Scudamore, 1st Baronet.

He had already been created a Baronet, of Holme Lacy in the County of Hereford, in the Baronetage of England on 1 June 1620,[1] and was made Baron Dromore at the same time as he was granted the viscountcy, also in the Peerage of Ireland.

Lord Scudamore was succeeded by his grandson, the second Viscount.

On his death the titles passed to his son, the third Viscount.

The house later came into the Stanhope family headed by the Earl of Chesterfield.