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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.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
Earl Jermyn* Lord Hervey: The Marquess of Ailsa: Earl of Cassilis* Lord Kennedy The Marquess of Normanby: Earl of Mulgrave* Lord Phipps The Marquess of Abergavenny: Earl of Lewes: Viscount Nevill The Marquess of Zetland: Earl of Ronaldshay* Lord Dundas The Marquess of Linlithgow: Earl of Hopetoun* Viscount Aithrie* The Marquess of Aberdeen and ...
Earl (/ ɜːr l, ɜːr əl /) [1] is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. [2] A feminine form of earl never developed; [note 1] instead, countess is used. The title originates in the Old English word eorl, meaning "a man of noble birth ...
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The Earl of Derby: 1485 The Earl of Huntingdon: 1529 The Earl of Pembroke: 1551 Earl of Montgomery in Peerage of England The Earl of Devon: 1553 The Earl of Lincoln: 1572 The Earl of Suffolk: 1603 Earl of Berkshire in Peerage of England The Earl of Exeter: 1605 Marquess of Exeter in the Peerage of the United Kingdom: The Earl of Salisbury: 1605
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The son of the current Duke of Northumberland has the courtesy title of Earl Percy, and is addressed and referred to as "Lord Percy".. If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, a marquess or an earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy".