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Ranks. In the United Kingdom there are five ranks of the peerage: Baron is the lowest. In Scotland this is called a Lord, short for Lord in Parliament. Viscount. Earl - this is an old Saxon word. In Continental Europe this rank is called 'count', the lord in charge of a county. An earl's wife is called a countess.
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell. Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford. Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael. Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley. Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley. Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers. Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough. Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde.
Die Peerage of England ist ein System von Adelstiteln und umfasst alle Peer -Würden, die im Königreich England vor dem Act of Union 1707 geschaffen wurden. In diesem Jahr wurden die Peerage of England und die Peerage of Scotland durch die Peerage of Great Britain ersetzt. Bis zur Verabschiedung des House of Lords Act 1999 hatten alle Peers ...
Earl of Leicester. Earl of Lewes. Earl of Lichfield. Earl of Liverpool. Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. Earl of Lonsdale. Earl of Lytton.
The United Kingdom never experienced the sudden dispossession of the estates of the nobility, which occurred in much of Europe after the French Revolution or in the early 20th century, and the British nobility, in so far as it existed as a distinct social class, integrated itself with those with new wealth derived from commercial and industrial sources more comfortably than in most of Europe.
Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom. In the British peerage, a royal duke is a member of the British royal family, entitled to the titular dignity of prince and the style of His Royal Highness, who holds a dukedom. Dukedoms are the highest titles in the British roll of peerage, and the holders of these particular dukedoms are princes of the ...
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 ...
