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    Peerages in the United Kingdom form a legal system comprising both hereditary and lifetime titles, composed of various ranks, and within the framework...
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  • The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great...
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  • is a list of the 110 present and extant Viscounts in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it...
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  • of the 30 present dukes in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, United Kingdom of...
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  • list of the 34 present and extant marquesses in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland...
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  • Peerages in the United Kingdom Hereditary peer, holders of titles which can be inherited by an heir Life peer, members of the peerage of the United Kingdom...
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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...
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  • Duke, in the United Kingdom, is the highest-ranking hereditary title in all five peerages of the British Isles. A duke thus outranks all other holders...
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  • the United Kingdom. The life baronies fall into two classes: List of life peerages (created under the Life Peerages Act 1958): List of life peerages (1958–1979)...
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  • In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are...
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  • This is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 since 2024, during the tenure of Labour prime...
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  • List of Baronies in the Peerage of Ireland List of Life Peerages List of Law Life Peerages Pre-1876 Life Peerages "No. 15327". The London Gazette. 10...
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    nobility in the peerages of the United Kingdom, ranking below a duke and above an earl. There are currently 35 marquessates. The first marquess in England...
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  • The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England...
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  • by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisions of Peerages in the United Kingdom. The creation of such...
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  • April 2004. Scottish peerages' rules for courtesy titles and styles differ. Occasionally, a peer succeeds to a peerage upon the death of a relative who...
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  • by the reigning monarch at any time. In the United Kingdom, there is nothing intrinsic to any dukedom that makes it "royal". Rather, these peerages are...
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    abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Edward III of England created the first three dukedoms...
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  • The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between the Acts of Union 1707 and the Acts of Union...
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  • older baronies of the United Kingdom. All baronies created since 1965 have either been life peerages or subsidiary baronies for peerages of higher rank,...
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  •   Eligible for Peerage List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom List of peerages created for lord chancellors and lord keepers List of peerages created...
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  • forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental...
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  • peerages have been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the Life Peerages Act 1958. List of life peerages (1958–1979) Created under the...
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  • peerages has largely dwindled; only seven hereditary peerages have been created since 1965, four of them for members of the British royal family. The...
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  • The Peerage of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Moraireachd na h-Alba; Scots: Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom...
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  • titles used for the heirs of currently extant titles in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Asterisks denote...
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  • is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 from 2010 to 2024, during the tenures of Conservative...
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  • viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland, including the England, the Scotland, the Ireland, the Great Britain and the Peerage of the United Kingdom, listed...
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    the Peerage of Scotland also had held titles in the respective peerages of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom and were thus members of the...
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    The Life Peerages Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 21) established the modern standards for the creation of life peers by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom...
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