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Oral address Chief, chieftain or laird (Only lairds recognised in a territorial designation by the Lord Lyon) John Smith of Smith or John Smith of Edinburgh or John Smith of that Ilk or The Smith of Smith or The Smith of Edinburgh or The Smith [e] (only the 2nd form of address above applies to lairds) Sir or Dear Edinburgh (if placename in ...
If a prince or peer dies, his wife's style does not change unless the new peer is a married man (or a woman, if the succession permits). Traditionally, the widowed peeress puts "Dowager" in her style – for example, "The Most Hon. the Marchioness of London" becomes "The Most Hon. the Dowager Marchioness of London".
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
England Michael Paulet, Earl of Wiltshire: 2 The Marquess of Huntly: 1599 Granville Gordon, 13th Marquess of Huntly: Scotland Alastair Gordon, Earl of Aboyne: 3 The Marquess of Queensberry: 1682 David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry: Scotland Sholto Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig: 4 The Marquess of Tweeddale: 1694 Charles Hay, 14th Marquess ...
Since marquessates in England created after 1707 became marquessates of Great Britain and, from 1801, of the United Kingdom, he is now the only English marquess with no higher rank. All other marquesses in the Peerage of England are also dukes and use their title of Marquess as a subsidiary title .
This article lists all marquessates, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The title of Marquess of Dublin, which is perhaps best described as Anglo-Irish, was the first to be created, in 1385, but like the next few creations, the title was soon forfeit.
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total.
Held by the Duke of St Albans in the Peerage of England since 1787. Baron Hyde: 3 June 1756 Earl of Clarendon in the Peerage of Great Britain. [note 2] Baron Walpole: 4 June 1756 Held by the Baron Walpole in the Peerage of Great Britain since 1931. Baron Harwich: 17 November 1756 Marquess of Downshire in the Peerage of Ireland. Baron Wycombe ...