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The British nobility consists of the peerage and the gentry. The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles, granted by the British sovereign. Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron).
Lopes Suasso: family whose nobility was confirmed between 1818 and 1831, extinct in 1970 (notable member: Francisco Lopes Suasso, Baron d'Avernas le Gras (1657–1710), one of the leading shareholders of the West India Company, one of the most ardent supporters of the House of Orange, he supported William of Orange in 1688, in his invasion of England)
List of British Jews is a list of prominent Jews from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island of Great Britain with the Romans , it was not until the Norman Conquest of William the Conqueror in 1066 that organised Jewish communities first appeared in England .
Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736) The daily telegraph,mad about the mansion,a review of hassobury manor (27 February 2005)
Lists of British nobility (1 C, 28 P) C. ... List of European Jewish nobility; F. List of fictional nobility; List of Finnish noble families; G.
List of British Jewish nobility and gentry; P. ... List of British Jewish writers This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 14:33 (UTC). ...
This is a list of the present and extant Barons (Lords of Parliament, in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those extant baronies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerage dignities and are today only seen ...
Articles on British Jewish history; Jews in England 1066–1290, 1553–1970 Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine (from Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971) Words of English Thinkers on the Jewish People; Jewish Communities & Records – United Kingdom; Tracing the First Jews of Britain; Chabad-Lubavitch Centers in England; The Jewish Chronicle