Earl of Richmond and away from any attempts of the French crown to acquire it and the related properties. From 1414 to 1435 the earldom of Richmond was held by John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford. In 1453 it was conferred on Edmund Tudor, half-brother to King Henry VI. When Edmund's son Henry ascended the throne as Henry VII in 1485, the earldom of Richmond merged in the crown, and for the next forty years there was no further grant of the title. After Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became King Henry VII of England, the title Duke of Richmond was created by the
Edmund Parker, 2nd Earl of Morley Edmund Parker, 2nd Earl of Morley Edmund Henry Parker, 2nd Earl of Morley (10 June 181028 August 1864), styled Viscount Boringdon from 1815 to 1840, was a British peer and Whig politician. Morley was the son of John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley, and his second wife Frances Talbot, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1840 Morley succeeded his father as second Earl of Morley and took his seat on the Whig benches in the House of Lords. From 1846 to 1852 he served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Whig administration