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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 ...
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 ...
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 The term superseded the term baronage used of the feudal era.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 who is a participant of a small rank of a British ...
This is a list of the present and extant Barons (Lords of Parliament, in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those extant baronies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerage dignities and are today only seen ...
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Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen (1720–1797), on the basis of which Rudolf Erich Raspe wrote the tales of Baron Munchausen. [1] Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness.
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.
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.