Definitions

1. Peerages were handed out not to honour the recipient but to give him a seat in the House of Lords. (Web site)
2. Life Peerages created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, as aforementioned, are always of the rank of baron, and may be created for both men and women.
3. Some life peerages are created not as an honour, but to enable the holder to sit in the House of Lords, either as a legislator or as a judge.
4. Hereditary peerages are now normally only given to members of the Royal Family.

Hereditary Baronies

1. Me too, how I wrote on Talk:List of hereditary baronies in the peerages of the British Isles before.

Life Peerages

1. Following the creation of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the first Justices of that Court held life peerages, and continued to hold them. (Web site)

Hereditary Peerages

1. As with hereditary peerages, baronetcies ceased to be granted after the Labour Party came to power in 1964.

Crown

1. The Crown, as fount of honour, may determine all petitions claiming peerages. (Web site)

Accession

1. However, with the accession of the Labour government of Harold Wilson in 1964, the practice of granting hereditary peerages effectively stopped.

Great Britain

1. The titles of Earl of Hertford and Marquess of Hertford have been created several times in the peerages of England and Great Britain. (Web site)

House

1. The Act provided a temporary measure that only 92 individuals may continue to sit in the Upper House by virtue of hereditary peerages. (Web site)

Prime Minister

1. This is a list of Life Peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958, grouped by the sitting Prime Minister. (Web site)
2. In 1964, Harold Wilson, of the Labour Party, became Prime Minister; he ceased to recommend the creation of hereditary peerages.

Number

1. Life peerages may be awarded through a number of different routes.

Peers

1. The Peerage Act also permitted peers to disclaim hereditary peerages within a year of succeeding to them. (Web site)

Holders

1. The Titles Deprivation Act 1917 permitted the Crown to suspend peerages if their holders had fought against the United Kingdom during the First World War. (Web site)

Duke

1. Prince Albert was created Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killarney in 1920, the same peerages that his father had held from 1892 to 1901. (Web site)

Prince George

1. His only son, Prince George, succeeded to his peerages. (Web site)

British Throne

1. The suspension of his peerages under the Title Deprivation Act, did not affect the Duke's place in the line of succession to the British throne.

Sovereign

1. Under the Life Peerages Act, however, there is no limit on the number of peerages the Sovereign may create.
2. No limits were placed on the number of peerages that the Sovereign may award, as was done by the Appellate Jurisdiction Act.
3. Additionally, if a peer becomes Sovereign, his peerages all merge in the Crown. (Web site)

Knighthood

1. Baronetcies are not peerages, but are usually considered a species of knighthood.

Peerage

1. The Peerage of Great Britain thus replaced the Peerages of England and Scotland, until it was itself replaced by the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801.
2. The fifth earl was created Earl of Wiltshire (1449) in the Peerage of England, but he was attainted in 1461 and his peerages were declared forfeit. (Web site)
3. In the following table of peers, higher or equal titles in the other peerages are listed, as are Life peerages in the Peerage of the UK.

Lords

1. It was only in 1958 that women were admitted to the House of Lords; the Life Peerages Act passed in that year granted seats to all life peeresses. (Web site)
2. They join Lords of Appeal who are already in the upper house by virtue of their hereditary peerages.

Heir-Apparent

1. Upon his death, his younger brother Prince Richard of Gloucester became heir-apparent and succeeded to these peerages in 1974.

United Kingdom

1. When the limit is reached no more peerages may be granted until existing ones become extinct or their holders succeed to United Kingdom peerages. (Web site)
2. Currently, Wales does not form a separate peerage but is incorporated into the English, Great Britain, and finally the United Kingdom peerages. (Web site)
3. There is no limitation on the power of the Crown as to the number of United Kingdom peerages which may be created. (Web site)

Honours

1. Thus, the Crown creates all peerages, appoints members of the orders of chivalry, grants knighthoods, and awards other honours. (Web site)
2. Peerages, knighthoods, and other honours are bestowed by the Sovereign only on the advice of the Prime Minister. (Web site)
3. In practice, peerages and most other honours are granted on the advice of the Prime Minister. (Web site)

Peerages

1. Members of the Peerages of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom all attended the House of Lords, and no elections were necessary.
2. Twenty peers in the House of Lords owe their peerages to a direct connection with Northern Ireland,[ 28] usually through a political party.
3. This page has baronies that are extinct in the Peerages of England, Ireland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom.

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2. Information > Reference > Titles > Baronies
3. Heir-Apparent
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