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- The British '''Peerage''' is a well-known system of nobility existing in the United Kingdom. A woman may sometimes be elevated to the peerage in her own right. Although a (male) peer’s wife receives a courtesy styl2 KB (278 words) - 05:44, 29 May 2018
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- ...owest of the five degrees of peerage, below a Viscount, but above the (non-peerage) hereditary honour of a Baronet.156 bytes (23 words) - 19:25, 31 May 2008
- A hereditary title in the [[peerage of Ireland]]84 bytes (11 words) - 12:57, 7 September 2022
- ...he five degrees of [[peerage]], below a [[Viscount]], but above the (non-[[peerage]]) [[hereditary honour]] of a [[Baronet]].519 bytes (82 words) - 05:47, 29 May 2018
- Ireland had a separate peerage, prior to the Act of Union of 1800101 bytes (15 words) - 01:56, 30 June 2022
- ...mber of the notorious [[Bullingdon Club]], who will inherit a title in the peerage129 bytes (19 words) - 13:31, 8 September 2022
- {{r|peerage}}161 bytes (22 words) - 14:06, 13 December 2008
- Individuals would be created peers in the Irish peerage as a reward for merit, like winning a significant battle in wartime. Alter Earning an Irish peerage was considered much less prestigious than earning a peerage in the [[English House of Lords]], or its successor the [[House of Lords of4 KB (566 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...lower than a [[Baron]]. Traditionally different from the five degrees of [[Peerage]] since a [[Baronetcy]] did not entitle the holder to a seat in the [[House Unlike the [[peerage]], the baronetage was not limited to citizens of the [[United Kingdom]] or2 KB (240 words) - 16:53, 12 March 2024
- The British '''Peerage''' is a well-known system of nobility existing in the United Kingdom. A woman may sometimes be elevated to the peerage in her own right. Although a (male) peer’s wife receives a courtesy styl2 KB (278 words) - 05:44, 29 May 2018
- {{r|Peerage}}545 bytes (73 words) - 11:15, 11 January 2010
- * [[Duke of Albany]], a British Peerage title544 bytes (78 words) - 11:10, 8 February 2023
- {{r|Peerage}}674 bytes (95 words) - 17:53, 11 January 2010
- ...f [[Edinburgh]]''' is a ''[[dukedom]]'', the highest rank in the [[British Peerage]]. The last Duke of Edinburgh was [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charle797 bytes (134 words) - 04:35, 9 September 2022
- ...er [[Richard Austen Butler]]. Lord Home renounced his peerage (under the [[Peerage Act 1963]] passed earlier in the same year) in order to be qualified to re- ...ilson]], Home was restored to the House of Lords when he accepted a [[life peerage]], and became known as 'Baron Home of the Hirsel' ([[The Hirsel]] being his3 KB (517 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- He inherited his father's titles in the Irish peerage, in 1781, when he was just 21 years old. Although his Irish title gave him In 1797 he entered the peerage of Great Britain, being created Baron Wellesley.<ref name=historyofparliame4 KB (395 words) - 01:52, 30 June 2022
- * [http://www.armorial-register.com/ Burke's Peerage & Gentry International Register of Arms]4 KB (538 words) - 07:19, 19 May 2008
- ...dow of a lord; a courtesy title for the daughter of the upper ranks of the Peerage, Earl, Marquess and Duke.2 KB (276 words) - 22:58, 5 February 2008
- ...ić was born in 1675 in Dubrovnik as the son of a family recently raised to peerage. First, he started a secular career. He became commander of the fortress Lo2 KB (338 words) - 20:07, 14 September 2013
- ...s finances, being recalled in 1624. [[Charles I]] first gave him an Irish peerage, then made him Baron Herbert of Cherbury. As the [[English Civil War]] dev3 KB (417 words) - 09:36, 7 June 2013
- ...rict. The House of Lords, the upper house, is comprised of members of the peerage and the bishopric, and in 2007, had over 750 members. In 2007, serious eff3 KB (515 words) - 06:22, 15 August 2023
- ...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 Susse6 KB (978 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...]]. 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]].3 KB (498 words) - 09:36, 10 February 2024
- ...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 his7 KB (1,162 words) - 16:06, 9 January 2021
- *disputes over succession to [[Peerage|peerages]]4 KB (592 words) - 10:33, 28 September 2022
- ...hen first appointed; he completed the legal formalities of disclaiming his peerage four days later.</ref></li>4 KB (525 words) - 05:48, 2 August 2023
- In 1830 Brougham was given a peerage and became Lord Chancellor in [[Lord Grey]]'s Whig government between 18304 KB (600 words) - 06:30, 9 June 2009
- ...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 '5 KB (818 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2016
- | work = Cracroft's Peerage7 KB (897 words) - 18:47, 3 April 2024
- ...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/document8 KB (1,278 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...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 "L8 KB (1,281 words) - 09:40, 12 August 2016
- ...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.25 KB (4,045 words) - 02:18, 7 April 2024
- ...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 cre45 KB (7,102 words) - 11:18, 7 March 2024
- * Florey received the greater honour of a [[peerage]] for his monumental work in making penicillin available to the public and11 KB (1,713 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...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 frequently11 KB (1,518 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...=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 th11 KB (1,850 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...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 was17 KB (2,557 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...nhabitants of other worlds have immortal souls, and allowed members of the peerage opportunities to recount their own sightings. Lord Hewlett made one of the24 KB (3,580 words) - 11:16, 10 February 2023
- * [[Peerage]]25 KB (3,396 words) - 13:29, 2 April 2024
- ...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 let35 KB (5,688 words) - 13:28, 2 April 2024
- ...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 removed32 KB (4,618 words) - 11:16, 23 February 2024
- ...,<ref>The Earl of Home completed the legal formalities of disclaiming his peerage four days after being appointed Prime Minister, and was elected to the Comm55 KB (8,409 words) - 06:07, 3 April 2024
- ...to elect sixteen representative peers to the House of Lords. In 1963, the Peerage Act allowed every Scottish peer to sit in the House of Lords, but since rec68 KB (10,286 words) - 17:33, 11 March 2024
- ...orking them into our naming conventions. Or perhaps we could use Debrett's Peerage. But absent such documentation, I'm not inclined to pay much attention to u141 KB (23,142 words) - 07:53, 2 March 2024
- ...2001, pp. 157–159.</ref> The budget was vetoed by the Conservative [[Peerage of Great Britain|peers]] who dominated the [[House of Lords]].<ref>Gilbert171 KB (25,041 words) - 09:26, 5 April 2024