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Name Summoned to Lords Diocesan bishop as of; Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Justin Welby [a] 28 November 2011 [b] 2011 Lord Archbishop of York: Stephen Cottrell: 10 February 2014 [c] 2010 Lord Bishop of London: Sarah Mullally: 10 April 2018 2018 Lord Bishop of Durham: vacant: Lord Bishop of Winchester: Philip Mounstephen: 15 November 2023 2023 ...
1. Constable of Dover, Keeper of the Coasts, Lord-Warden of the Cinque Ports 2. Household Knight of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent. 3. Lord of the manor of Sarre 4. Sheriff of Kent 5. Constable of the Tower of London 6. Keeper of the Receipts 7. Steward 8. Diplomat Died Before War Stephen de Segrave: 1171–1241 1. Chief Justiciar of England ...
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 ...
Name Succeeded Ended Notes Arundel: Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel: 12 February 1291 [18] 9 March 1302 [18] Great-great-grandson of the 3rd earl, William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel: 9 November 1306 [18] 17 November 1326 [18] Executed and forfeit for treason. [19] Cornwall: Edmund, 2nd Earl of ...
Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper (Lord Coventry from 1628) 1625 1640 Charles I (1625–1649) Lord Finch, Lord Keeper [b] 1640 1641 Lord Lyttleton of Mounslow, Lord Keeper (Took Great Seal to the King in 1642) 1641 1645 Richard Lane, Lord Keeper 1645 1650 Charles II Court in exile from 1649; Vacant: 1650 1653 Edward Herbert, Lord Keeper 1653 1654
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 ...
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...
As there are 42 dioceses of the Church of England, there are 42 bishops diocesan (including vacancies).Of the 42: both archbishops and the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, sit in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual ex officio; a further 21 sit there by seniority (of whom five had their seniority accelerated); the Bishop of Sodor and Man sits ex officio in the Legislative ...