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The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...
All hereditary peers in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, subject only to qualifications such as age and citizenship, but under section 1 of the House of Lords Act 1999 they lost this right.
The law applicable to a British hereditary peerage depends on which Kingdom it belongs to. Peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom follow English law; the difference between them is that peerages of England were created before the Act of Union 1707, peerages of Great Britain between 1707 and the Union with Ireland in 1800, and peerages of the United Kingdom since 1800.
In 1999, when the House of Lords Bill sought to deprive hereditary peers of the automatic right to sit in the House of Lords, the question arose as to whether or not such a bill would violate the Treaty of Union uniting England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. The House of Lords referred the entire question to the Committee for ...
The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.
The United Kingdom first passed a right to sit law on August 9, 1899, the Seats for Shop Assistants Act 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 21), establishing that one seat should be provided in shops for every three women. [15] The United Kingdom ratified the International Labour Organization's Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 on 21 April ...
Earl of Plymouth in the Peerage of the United Kingdom: The Baron Burgh: 1529 The Baron Wharton: 1544 The Baron Howard of Effingham: 1554 Earl of Effingham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom: The Baron St John of Bletso: 1559 The Baron Howard de Walden: 1597 The Baron Petre: 1603 The Baron Clifton: 1608 Earl of Darnley in the Peerage of ...
Earl of Chichester in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [note 2] Baron Vernon: 12 May 1762 George Venables-Vernon, Esq, MP: Former Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Derby. Baron Ducie: 27 April 1763 Earl of Ducie in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [note 2] Baron Camden: 17 July 1765 Marquess Camden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ...