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This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2010) Peerages and baronetcies of Britain and Ireland Extant All Dukes Dukedoms Marquesses Marquessates Earls Earldoms Viscounts Viscountcies Barons Baronies En, Sc, GB, Ir, UK (Law, Life: 1958–1979, 1979–1997, 1997–2010, 2010–2024, 2024–present) Baronets Baronetcies This page, one list of hereditary baronies ...
1330. Maltravers, Arundel, Fitzalan, Howard, Fitzalan-Howard. extant. The Barony was united with the Earldom of Arundel by Act of Parliament in 1627 and is held by the Duke of Norfolk. Baron Burghersh. 1330. de Burghersh, le Despencer, de Beauchamp. abeyant 1448. Baron Coleville.
Barons. Baronies. En, Sc, GB, Ir, UK (Law, Life: 1958–1979, 1979–1997, 1997–2010, 2010–2024, 2024–present) Baronets. Baronetcies. The peerage is the collective term for all those holding titles of nobility of all degrees. The term superseded the term baronage used of the feudal era. A barony is a rank or dignity of a man or a woman ...
1728. Watson, Watson-Wentworth. Extinct 1782. created Baron Harrowden, Baron Wath, Viscount Higham and Earl of Malton in 1734; also Baron Rockingham in the Peerage of England from 1746; created Marquess of Rockingham in 1746; also Baron Malton and Earl Malton in the Peerage of Ireland from 1750. Baron Monson.
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Life peers take precedence with other barons of the United Kingdom; they are listed separately because the only hereditary baronies created since 1965 have been subsidiary titles: Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who holds the subsidiary title of Baron Killyleagh, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, who holds the subsidiary title of Baron ...
The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of August 2023, there are 805 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal dukes), 34 marquesses, 189 earls, 110 viscounts, and 442 barons (not counting subsidiary titles). As a result of the Peerage Act 1963, all peers except those in the peerage of Ireland were ...
The ranks of the peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. [7]The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1874, and the last marquessate was created in 1936. . Creation of the remaining ranks, except baronies for life, mostly ceased once Harold Wilson's Labour government took office in 1964, and only thirteen (nine non-royal and four royal) people have been created hereditary peers sinc