Viscount

Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at the chateau, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in.

The viscount inherited the estate after his father passed away.

A viscount ranks below an earl or count but above a baron.

Tom is a viscount.

On Tuesday the King gave audiences to the Earl of Albemarle, Viscounts Melbourne and Althorp, Lord Hill, and Sir James Graham.