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In the UK, five peerages co-exist, namely: Peerage of England – titles created by the Kings and Queens of England before the Acts of Union in 1707. Peerage of Scotland – titles created by the Kings and Queens of Scotland before 1707. Peerage of Great Britain – titles created for the Kingdom of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801.
Peerages in theUnited Kingdom. 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 and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total.
The history of the British peerage, a system of nobility found in the United Kingdom, stretches over the last thousand years. The current form of the British peerage has been a process of development. While the ranks of baron and earl predate the British peerage itself, the ranks of duke and marquess were introduced to England in the 14th century.
In court (assembly, presbytery and session) a person may only be addressed as Mr, Mrs, Miss, Dr, Prof, etc. depending on academic achievement. Thus ministers are correctly addressed as, for example, Mr Smith or Mrs Smith unless they have a higher degree or academic appointment e.g. Dr Smith or Prof. Smith.
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 1800. It replaced the Peerage of England and the Peerage of Scotland, but was itself replaced by the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801. The ranks of the Peerage of Great Britain are Duke ...
Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame. Michael Hare, 2nd Viscount Blakenham. Benjamin Bathurst, 2nd Viscount Bledisloe. Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe. Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe. Simon Lennox-Boyd, 2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton. Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford.
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 of titles of nobility ( marquess, earl, viscount and baron or lord of parliament ). The wife of a duke is known as a duchess, which is also the title of a woman who holds a dukedom in her own ...
