Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Earl Mountbatten of Burma is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically, Earldoms of England Chronologically, Succeeded Countesses of England, Extant Earldoms of England.

On 28 Oct 1947 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 47) was created 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma with a special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. Edwina Ashley Countess Mountbatten Burma (age 45) by marriage Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

Death of Louis Mountbatten

On 27 Aug 1979 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 79) was killed by an IRA bomb aboard his fishing boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo. His daughter Patricia Mountbatten 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (age 55) succeeded 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma. John Knatchbull 7th Baron Brabourne (age 54) by marriage Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Nicholas Timothy Knatchbull (age 14) was killed.

Pauk Maxwell, a local boy, was killed.

On 28 Aug 1979 Doreen Browne Baroness Brabourne (age 83) died from wounds in hospital the day after the bombing.

On 13 Jun 2017 Patricia Mountbatten 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (age 93) died. Her son Norton Knatchbull 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (age 69) succeeded 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma.