Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Summary

28th October 1947. Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [aged 47] created.

27th August 1979. Daughter Patricia Mountbatten 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma [aged 55] succeeded. See Death of Louis Mountbatten.

13th June 2017. Son Norton Knatchbull 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma [aged 69] succeeded.

On 28th October 1947 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [aged 47] was created 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma with a special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. Edwina Ashley Countess Mountbatten Burma [aged 45] by marriage Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

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

Nicholas Timothy Knatchbull [aged 14] was killed.

Pauk Maxwell, a local boy, was killed.

On 28th August 1979 Doreen Browne Baroness Brabourne [aged 83] died from wounds in hospital the day after the bombing.

On 13th June 2017 Patricia Mountbatten 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma [aged 93] died. Her son Norton [aged 69] succeeded 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma.