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a deputy count who outranked his job description and kept the title forever
means A nobleman ranking below an earl or count but above a baron, often used as a courtesy title for an earl's eldest son.
from From Old French visconte, in turn from Medieval Latin vicecomes — literally 'vice-count,' the deputy or stand-in for a count. The vice- here is the same one lurking in viceroy and vice-president: a person acting in another's stead. Over time the deputy stopped being merely a substitute and hardened into a hereditary rank of its own, the title outliving the errand it was named for.
- literal meaning
- vice-count, the count's stand-in officer
- the biscuit
- a mint chocolate UK biscuit named viscount
- rank order
- sits below an earl, above a baron
- address
- called my lord, never your highness
- french roots
- from vicecomes, a Carolingian regional deputy
viscount nelson — british naval commander who defeated the french at trafalgar in 1805
viscount montgomery — british field marshal who defeated rommel at el alamein in 1942
viscount castlereagh — british foreign secretary who negotiated the congress of vienna in 1815