Portrait of Earl of Albemarle is a title created several times from Norman times onwards. In 1697, King William III created his Dutch favourite Arnold Joost van Keppel, Earl of Albemarle in the Peerage of England. He was made Baron Ashford, of Ashford in the County of Kent, and Viscount Bury, in the County of Lancaster, at the same time. The motive for choosing this title was probably that, apart from its traditions, it avoided the difficulty created by the fact that the Keppels had as yet no territorial possessions in the British Islands.

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