Viscount Bolingbroke

Viscount Bolingbroke[a] is a current title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1712 for Henry St John.

He was simultaneously made Baron St John, of Lydiard Tregoze in the County of Wilts.

[3] The titles Baron St John, of Lydiard Tregoze in the County of Wilts, and Viscount Bolingbroke were created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1712 for the politician and orator the Hon.

[2] This became the de facto seat of the lord of the manor title inherited from the 1st Baronet from Viscount Grandison, buried there with great pomp in 1648.

[2] The heraldic blazon for the armorials of the St John family is: Argent, on a chief gules two mullets or.

This can be translated as: a white shield with a red rectangle at the top holding two golden stars.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Armorial bearings of St John, Viscounts Bolingbroke