Richard Spears, First Duke of Darlington

Template:Infobox Peer Richard Spears is a Vionnan nobleman and, among other titles, Earl of Darlington. At 28 he is the youngest to hold the title and currently the youngest man in Vionna-Frankenlischian peerage to hold the title of Earl. He has held his primary title for three years following the death of the former Earl, his father Eadwin Spears. His cousin Anne, currently fourteen, is his heir and sole inheritor as he is unmarried and without issue. In 2016 he was involved in the Mariella Scandal in which Chloe Mariella claimed her newborn daughter, Isobel, was the illegitimate child of Richard which he denied, a small inquiry is scheduled for late 2018.