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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.
Some of the German relations of King George V were made marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom after renouncing their German princely titles in 1917. Prince Louis of Battenberg , the princely head of the Battenberg family and the maternal grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , became the first Marquess of Milford Haven .
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.
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.
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Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom. A courtesy title is a form of address in systems of nobility used for children, former wives and other close relatives of a peer, as well as certain officials such as some judges and members of the Scottish gentry. These styles are used "by courtesy" in the sense that persons referred to by these titles do ...
The Complete Peerage (full title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant ); first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by Vicary Gibbs et al.) is a comprehensive work on the titled aristocracy of the British Isles .
