Peerage of the United Kingdom

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The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland until the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

The ranks of the peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.

Until the House of Lords Act 1999 was passed, all Peers of the UK could sit in the House of Lords. However, from that date most of the hereditary peers (with the exception of 92) were expelled as part of Parliamentary reform.

Lists of Peers

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The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain.
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The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707 . With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of
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The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. This practice ended with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
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The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerages of England and Scotland, until it was itself replaced by the Peerage of the United Kingdom in
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The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system.
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Act of Union 1800 (or sometimes Act of Union 1801) (Irish: Acht an Aontais 1800) is used to describe two complementary Acts [1] whose official United Kingdom titles are the Union with Ireland Act 1800 (1800 c.
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The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerages of England and Scotland, until it was itself replaced by the Peerage of the United Kingdom in
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The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. This practice ended with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
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Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) (1922–1937) was the state comprising the twenty-six of Ireland's thirty-two counties that were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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marquess (English spelling) or marquis (North American English and French spelling) is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European monarchies and some of their colonies. The term is also used to render equivalent oriental styles as in imperial China and Japan.
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Earl or Jarl was an Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian title meaning "chieftain" and referring especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead. In Scandinavia, it became obsolete in the Middle Ages and was replaced with duke (hertig/hertug
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viscount (pronounced IPA: /ˈvaɪkaʊnt/) is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in Britain) or a count (his continental
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Baron is a specific title of nobility. The word baron comes from Spanish barón, itself from Frankish baro meaning "freeman, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman.
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Acts of Parliament of predecessor
states to the United Kingdom
Acts of English Parliament to 1601
Acts of English Parliament to 1641
Acts and Ordinances (Interregnum) to 1660
Acts of English Parliament to 1699
Acts of English Parliament to 1706
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The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled

Type Upper House

Lord Speaker
Hélène Hayman, Baroness Hayman, PC, (Non-affiliated)
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Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over seven hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited. Formerly, most of them were entitled to a seat in House of Lords, but since the House of Lords Act 1999 only ninety-two are permitted to sit,
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This is a list of Dukes in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Title Creation Other titles
The Duke of Wellington 1814  
The Duke of Sutherland 1833  
The Duke of Westminster 1874  
The Duke of Gordon 1876 Duke of Richmond in the Peerage of England;
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This is a list of Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Title Creation Other titles
The Marquess of Exeter 1801  
The Marquess of Northampton 1812  
The Marquess Camden 1812  
The Marquess of Anglesey 1815  
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This is a list of Earls and Countesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Title Creation Other titles
The Earl of Rosslyn 1801  
The Earl of Craven 1801  
The Earl of Onslow 1801  
The Earl of Romney 1801  
The Earl of Chichester 1801  
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This is a list of Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Title Creation Other titles
The Viscount St Vincent 1801  
The Viscount Melville 1802  
The Viscount Sidmouth 1805  
The Viscount Exmouth 1816  
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This is a list of Hereditary Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Title Creation Other titles
The Lord Loftus 1801 Marquess of Ely in the Peerage of Ireland
The Lord Ellenborough 1802  
The Lord Sandys 1802  
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This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom contains a more comprehensive selection of UK articles.

Geography and the environment

  • United Kingdom

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This is a list of members of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom.

Bishops


Bishopric Name Year entered Lords Year became English Diocesan Bishop
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams 2003 2003
The Lord Archbishop of York John Sentamu 2005 2002
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