Viscount Chelsea
| Earldom of Cadogan | |
|---|---|
 
Quarterly: 1st and 4th gules, a lion rampant reguardant or (for Cadogan); 2nd and 3rd argent, three boar's heads couped sable.
|
|
| Creation date | 1718 (first creation) |
| Peerage | Peerage of Great Britain |
| Present holder | Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan |
| Heir apparent | Edward Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea |
| Subsidiary titles | Viscount Chelsea |
| Former seat(s) | Culford Park |
| Armorial motto | "He who envies is the lesser man." |
Earl Cadogan /kəˈdʌɡən/ is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Great Britain.
The Cadogan family descends from Major William Cadogan, a cavalry officer in Oliver Cromwell's army. His son Henry Cadogan was a barrister in Dublin. His eldest son William Cadogan was a noted soldier, politician and diplomat. He was a general in the army and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession and also served as Ambassador to the Netherlands and as Master-General of the Ordnance. In 1716, he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Cadogan, of Reading in the County of Berkshire, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body. In 1718, he was further honoured when he was made Baron Cadogan, of Oakley in the County of Buckingham, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to his younger brother Charles Cadogan and the heirs male of his body, and Viscount Caversham, in the County of Oxford, and Earl Cadogan, in the County of Denbigh, with remainder to the heirs male of his body. These titles were also in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Lord Cadogan had two daughters but no sons, so on his death in 1726, three titles - the barony of 1716, the viscountcy, and earldom - became extinct. However, he was succeeded in the barony of 1718 according to the special remainder by his brother Charles, the second Baron. He was a General of the Horse and also represented Reading and Newport, Isle of Wight, in the House of Commons. Cadogan married Elizabeth, second daughter and heiress of the prominent physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane. Through this marriage the Sloane estates in central London came into the Cadogan family, and these have been the basis of the family wealth ever since.
...
Wikipedia