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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 styl
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  • ...owest of the five degrees of peerage, below a Viscount, but above the (non-peerage) hereditary honour of a Baronet.
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  • 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 1800
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  • ...mber of the notorious [[Bullingdon Club]], who will inherit a title in the peerage
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  • {{r|peerage}}
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  • 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 of
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  • ...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]] or
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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 styl
    2 KB (278 words) - 05:44, 29 May 2018
  • {{r|Peerage}}
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  • * [[Duke of Albany]], a British Peerage title
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  • {{r|Peerage}}
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  • ...f [[Edinburgh]]''' is a ''[[dukedom]]'', the highest rank in the [[British Peerage]]. The last Duke of Edinburgh was [[Charles, Prince of Wales|Prince Charle
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  • ...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 his
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  • 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=historyofparliame
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  • * [http://www.armorial-register.com/ Burke's Peerage & Gentry International Register of Arms]
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  • ...dow of a lord; a courtesy title for the daughter of the upper ranks of the Peerage, Earl, Marquess and Duke.
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  • ...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 Lo
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  • ...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]] dev
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  • ...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 eff
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