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...vatisation]] to 'selling the family silver.' In 1984 he finally accepted a peerage and was created Earl of Stockton that year. He died at Birch Grove in Susse

...]]. On the morning of his [[wedding]], 19th May 2018, he was granted the [[peerage]]s of Duke of Sussex, Earl of [[Dumbarton]] and Baron [[Kilkeel]].

...d he took his seat in the [[House of Lords]] in 1884. (This was the first peerage for literature.<ref>[[Lord Byron]], among other lordly poets, inherited his

*disputes over succession to [[Peerage|peerages]]

...hen first appointed; he completed the legal formalities of disclaiming his peerage four days later.</ref></li>

In 1830 Brougham was given a peerage and became Lord Chancellor in [[Lord Grey]]'s Whig government between 1830

...inherited their title and the right to sit in the Lords, can renounce the peerage within a year of inheriting it; appointees cannot step down at all. These '

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...ords-and-offices/lords/lords-by-type-and-party/ Lords by party and type of peerage ]'. Last updated January 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/document

...if they satisfied certain conditions; in particular, in that case, a life peerage could not. Parliament then passed an act authorizing a limited number of "L

...the nobility. (In the British Isles, "nobility" is more restricted, to the Peerage.) ...gree of nobility, sometimes even conferred as a hereditary title below the peerage.

...er who was a peer, but, within days of attaining office, he disclaimed his peerage, abiding by the convention that the Prime Minister should sit in the House ...ce the 1960s, hereditary peerages have generally been eschewed, and [[life peerage]]s have been preferred although, in the 1980s, [[Harold Macmillan]] was cre

* Florey received the greater honour of a [[peerage]] for his monumental work in making penicillin available to the public and

...ned an MP until the 1992 election, and on 5 June 1992 she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. In the [[House of Lords]] she frequently

...=1-4027-4229-0}}</ref> Despite the fact that he had no connection with the peerage, the deed poll laws of England at the time permitted this. He was one of th

...ed her gratitude to him by opening Parliament in person and by bestowing a peerage upon him. When Disraeli's government lost the 1880 election, the Queen was

...nhabitants of other worlds have immortal souls, and allowed members of the peerage opportunities to recount their own sightings. Lord Hewlett made one of the

* [[Peerage]]

...T) I forgot to mention that I had always fancied myself a member of the [[peerage|aristocracy]]. And [[User:Pierre-Alain Gouanvic|Pierre-Alain]] has just let

...sociation gave way to an all-party National Government. Morris was given a peerage as first Baron Morris, the only Newfoundlander ever so honored, and removed