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Burke's Landed Gentry (Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1921) Charles Kidd (Ed.), Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 (149th Edition, Debrett's Ltd, London, 2014) Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736)
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles.. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic governance in which power was largely inherited and shared amongst a noble class.
English gentry families (91 C, 52 P) ... (British aristocracy) (31 P) Allsopp family (1 C, ... List of family seats of Irish nobility; A. Aitken family; Anson family; B.
This category is for English gentry families, namely historically prominent English families, generally connected with the local administration of a particular county. They are regarded as the families of the minor nobility , as opposed to families which held an hereditary peerage, often regarded as the major nobility .
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).
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born into British nobility, the 9th of 10 siblings. In 1923, she married Prince Albert, the Duke of York, having turned down several previous proposals because she ...
Persons who are closely related to peers are also more correctly described as gentry than as nobility, since the latter term, in the modern British Isles, is synonymous with peer. However, this popular usage of nobility omits the distinction between titled and untitled nobility. The titled nobility in Britain are the peers of the realm, whereas ...
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...