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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 ...
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b. ^ The title had been dormant since the death without issue of Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel in 1243, and though Richard's father John FitzAlan, lord of Arundel is sometimes styled earl of Arundel in the literature, he never used this title. [41] Richard FitzAlan was the first of the FitzAlan family to be styled earl of Arundel by ...
The British embassy in the United States informs that "the sale of British titles is prohibited". [6] Titles in the Scottish baronage are the only British nobility titles that all experts agree may be passed to any person, of either sex, by inheritance or conveyance.
This category works on a broad definition of nobility, including ruling houses of true monarchies, peerage or equivalents and lower aristocracy or gentry.Please note that this page is unlikely ever to list all 'noble' titles discussed in Wikipedia, since quite some derived/related titles (especially for descendants, as discussed in Prince) and translations (some more may be found via the ...
Since the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted a series of reforms (from the 1960s onward) to the honours system, few hereditary titles have been created (the last being created in 1990), while life peerages have proliferated, allowing for more openly LGBT persons to be appointed to the House of Lords.
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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 ...