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((short description|Viscountcy in the Peerage of the United Kingdom))
((Infobox nobility title
| name              = Viscountcy of Mersey
| image             = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|130px|center]][[File:Arms of the house of Bigham, Viscounts Mersey.svg|150px|center]] 
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  |1= Quarterly: 1st and 4th grandquarters: Per bend dancetty Azure and Or a Bend invected between three Crosses Patée in chief and as many Horseshoes in base all counterchanged (Bigham);2nd grandquarter:1st and 4th, Ermine, on a Bend Azure, a Magnetic Needle, pointing to the Polar Star Or (Petty); 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a Saltire Gules, and a Chief, Ermine (FitzMaurice); 3rd grandquarter: 1st, Parted per pale Sable and Argent on a Chaplet four Quatrefoils counterchanged (Nairne); 2nd counterquartered: 1st and 4th, Or on a Fess Gules between three Crosses Patée in chief of the second a Mullet Azure in base three Bezants (Mercer); 2nd and 3rd, Argent a Chevron Sable between three Boars' Heads erased Gules (Elphinstone); 3rd counterquartered:
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| creation_date     = 22 January 1916
| peerage           = [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]] 
| first_holder      = [[John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey|John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey]]
| present_holder    = [[Edward Bigham, 5th Viscount Mersey|Edward John Hallam Bigham, 5th Viscount Mersey]]
| heir_presumptive  = Hon. David Edward Hugh Bigham 
| family_seat       = [[Bignor Park]]
| motto             = '''I Advance'''
))

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[[Image:1stViscountMersey.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey.]]
'''Viscount Mersey''', of [[Toxteth]] in the [[Lancashire|County Palatine of Lancaster]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1916 for the lawyer and politician [[John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey|John Bigham, 1st Baron Mersey]]. He had already been created '''Baron Mersey''', of Toxteth in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1910, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son, the second Viscount, was a Deputy Speaker of the [[House of Lords]] and also served as [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1944 to 1949. His son, the third Viscount, married Katherine Petty-Fitzmaurice, 12th Lady Nairne, the eldest daughter of [[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne]] and 10th [[Lord Nairne]]. They were both succeeded by their son, the fourth Viscount Mersey and thirteenth Lord Nairne. ((As of|2017)) the titles are held by the latter's son, the fifth Viscount, who succeeded in 2006.

The family seat is [[Bignor Park]], near [[Pulborough]], [[Sussex]].

==Viscounts Mersey (1916)==
*[[John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey|John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey]] (1840–1929)
*[[Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey|Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey]] (1872–1956)
*Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey (1906–1979)
*[[Richard Bigham, 4th Viscount Mersey|Richard Maurice Clive Bigham, 4th Viscount Mersey]] (1934–2006)
*[[Edward John Hallam Bigham, 5th Viscount Mersey]] (b. 1966)

The [[heir presumptive]] (to the Mersey but not Nairne titles) is the present holder's uncle Hon. David Edward Hugh Bigham (b. 1938).<br />
The heir presumptive's [[heir apparent]] is his son Charles Richard Petty Bigham (b. 1967).<br />
The heir presumptive's heir apparent's heir apparent is his elder son Caspar Patrick Ronan Bigham (b. 1997)

== Family tree ==
((Lansdowne family tree))

==Works==
*((cite book|title=A Year in China, 1899-1900|first=Charles Clive Bigham|last=Mersey (Viscount)|year=1901|publisher=Macmillan and Company, limited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eVQCAAAAMAAJ |access-date=1 April 2013))

==See also==
*[[Lord Nairne]]

==Notes==
((More citations needed|date=February 2013))
((reflist))

==References==
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ((Page needed |date=February 2013))
*((Rayment|date=February 2012))

==External links==
*((Hansard-contribs | mr-richard-bigham | Richard Maurice Clive Bigham, 4th Viscount Mersey ))
*[https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_MER The Mersey Manuscripts are held at the Parliamentary Archives]

((Extant British viscountcies))

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[[Category:Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Noble titles created in 1916]]
[[Category:Peerages created for UK MPs]]

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