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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.
Peerages created for prime ministers by reign. King George I, 1714–1727. King George II, 1727–1760. King George III, 1760–1820. King George IV, 1820–1830. King William IV, 1830–1837. Queen Victoria, 1837–1901. King Edward VII, 1901–1910. King George V, 1910–1936.
Co-owner of The Daily Telegraph. 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 Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage.
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.
The King or Queen of the United Kingdom, as the sovereign, is always first in the order of precedence. A king is followed by his queen consort, the first in the order of precedence for women. The reverse, however, is not always true for queens regnant. There is no established law of precedence for a prince consort, so he is usually specially ...
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.
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 ...
