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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.
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 ...
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):
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 following is the order of precedence in England and Wales as of February 2025. Separate orders exist for men and women.. Names in italics indicate that these people rank elsewhere—either higher in that table of precedence or in the table for the other sex.
Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images. Examples: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex . The highest degree of the British peerage system, a duke or duchess title is traditionally granted to a prince and his ...
The Earl of Home (c1963), the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to serve from the House of Lords. Peers in the House of Lords can serve in the British government, when invited to do so, as ministers including within the Great Offices of State (for example Lord Cameron who served as Foreign Secretary in the Premiership of Rishi Sunak).
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total.