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The Earl of Doncaster: 1663 Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland: The Earl of Shaftesbury: 1672 The Earl of Nottingham: 1681 Held with the Earl of Winchilsea in Peerage of England The Earl of Abingdon: 1682 Held with the Earl of Lindsey in Peerage of England The Earl of Portland: 1689 The Earl of Scarbrough: 1690 The ...
Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of Leinster: United Kingdom: Ordered according to date of creation [n] Eldest sons of royal dukes who are not already ranked higher Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (son of the Duke of Gloucester) George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (son of the Duke of Kent)
Thus, any reigning sovereign ranks higher than any deposed or mediatized sovereign (e.g., the Fürst of Waldeck, sovereign until 1918, was higher than the Duke of Arenberg, head of a mediatized family, although Herzog is nominally a higher title than Fürst). However, former holders of higher titles in extant monarchies retained their relative ...
This group ranks below a duke but above an earl, count and a baron. ... Earl of Wessex. Slightly less swanky than a dukeship, earl titles are passed down from father to son and countess titles are ...
This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.It does not include extant earldoms which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with marquessates or dukedoms and are today only seen as subsidiary titles.
James, Earl of Wessex; Peter Phillips; i.e. the sons of the sovereign's siblings; ordered according to the rules of primogeniture. The sovereign’s cousins David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon; i.e. the sons of the siblings of the sovereign's royal parent (through whom he inherited the throne); ordered according to the rules of ...
But in no case would a peer of a lower rank precede one of a higher rank. For example, the Duke of Fife, the last non-royal to be created a duke, would come before the Marquess of Winchester, though the latter's title was created earlier and is in a more senior peerage (the peerage of England). [31]
The ranks of the peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. [7]The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1874, and the last marquessate was created in 1936. . Creation of the remaining ranks, except baronies for life, mostly ceased once Harold Wilson's Labour government took office in 1964, and only thirteen (nine non-royal and four royal) people have been created hereditary peers sinc