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The Buckhurst Peerage Case established the principle that, once a peer inherits the peerage, he is forever "ennobled in blood" and cannot be deprived of it (except by act of Parliament). In 1864, a barony ( Baroness Buckhurst ) was created for Elizabeth Sackville-West , the wife of George John Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr , with a ...
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.
The doctrine was established in the Buckhurst Peerage Case (1876) 2 App Cas 1, in which the House of Lords deemed invalid the letters patent intended to keep the Barony of Buckhurst separate from the Earldom of De La Warr. The patent stipulated that if the holder of the barony should ever inherit the earldom, then he would be deprived of the ...
This is a list of life peerages in the peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.On 1 October 2009, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 was repealed by Schedule 18 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 [1] [2] owing to the creation of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
The title Baron Buckhurst has been created twice; once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created in 1567 for Thomas Sackville, MP for East Grinstead and Aylesbury. He was later created Earl of Dorset in 1604. That creation became extinct in 1843.
The Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill is a proposed law of the Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced on 20 November 2023 by Lord Northbrook. [1]The Bill proposes to change the law about hereditary peerages and baronetcies by removing male primogeniture to allow female heirs to take a hereditary peerage or baronetcy.
2.1 Peerage. 3 References. 4 External links. ... Countess De La Warr and 1st Baroness Buckhurst (11 August 1795 – 9 January 1870), was a British peeress. Early life
Baron Buckhurst of Buckhurst in the County of Sussex (1st creation), 1567 Earl of Dorset (4th creation), 1604: Edward Seymour c. 1528 –1593: Edward Seymour 1539–1621 1st Earl of Hertford: Katherine Grey 1540–1568: William Somerset c. 1526 –1589 3rd Earl of Worcester, 5th Baron Herbert: John Dudley c. 1527 –1554 Earl of Warwick: Robert ...