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The coronet of a marquess in the peerages of the United Kingdom A portrait of William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian wearing his British Army uniform. Marquess is a rank of nobility in the peerages of the United Kingdom, ranking below a duke and above an earl. There are currently 35 marquessates.
The English title Marquess of Winchester, created in 1551, is the earliest still extant, so is Premier Marquess of England. The title long remained less common, and on the evening of the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne explained to her (from her journals):
George Gordon, 8th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair: United Kingdom Ivo Gordon, Earl of Haddo: 33 The Marquess of Milford Haven: 1917 George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven: United Kingdom Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina: 34 The Marquess of Reading: 1926 Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading: United Kingdom Julian Isaacs, Viscount ...
Coat of arms of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG. William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister in 1782–83 during the final months of the ...
His son George became in 1784 the 1st Marquess of Buckingham and his grandson in 1822 the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (titles extinct in 1889). His other son William, also Prime Minister, became Baron Grenville: William Pitt the Younger: Died in Office: Appleby: He was in line to the Earldom of Chatham which title was extinct in 1835.
The ranks of the peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. [7]The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1874, and the last marquessate was created in 1936. . Creation of the remaining ranks, except baronies for life, mostly ceased once Harold Wilson's Labour government took office in 1964, and only thirteen (nine non-royal and four royal) people have been created hereditary peers sinc
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
Earl of Chichester in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [note 2] Baron Vernon: 12 May 1762 George Venables-Vernon, Esq, MP: Former Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Derby. Baron Ducie: 27 April 1763 Earl of Ducie in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [note 2] Baron Camden: 17 July 1765 Marquess Camden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ...