Earl of Richmond rather than the English crown. It was then held either by members of the English royal families of Plantagenet and Tudor, or English nobles closely associated with the English crown. It was eventually merged into the English crown during the reign of Henry VII and has been recreated as a Dukedom. The title Earl of Richmond is associated with the now extinct Earldom, the earlier Lords of Richmond who held the Honour of Richmond, one of the most important fiefs in England, and eventually the Dukes of Richmond. The title Earl evolved from the French-Breton-Norman title Count ("Comte") from 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