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This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
Hereditary peers of first creation living at the time the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force. 2: Hereditary peers who had served as Leader of the House of Lords living at the time the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force. 3: Suo jure hereditary peeress not otherwise able to enter the House before the Peerage Act 1963. † Died in office Res
The Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office in gross post among the Cholmondeley, Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Carington families.. In 1902 it was ruled by the House of Lords that the then joint office holders (the 1st Earl of Ancaster, the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire) had to agree on a deputy to exercise the office, subject ...
The law applicable to a British hereditary peerage depends on which Kingdom it belongs to. Peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom follow English law; the difference between them is that peerages of England were created before the Act of Union 1707, peerages of Great Britain between 1707 and the Union with Ireland in 1800, and peerages of the United Kingdom since 1800.
List of dukes in the peerage of Spain; Spanish military orders This page was last edited on 16 April 2018, at 21:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Buckhurst Peerage Case established the principle that, once a peer inherits the peerage, he is forever "ennobled in blood" and cannot be deprived of it (except by act of Parliament). In 1864, a barony ( Baroness Buckhurst ) was created for Elizabeth Sackville-West , the wife of George John Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr , with a ...
There were at least 650 colonists with traceable royal ancestry, [12] [13] and 387 of them left descendants in America (almost always numbering many thousands, and some as many as one million). [12] These colonists with royal descent settled in various states, but a large majority in Massachusetts or Virginia. [12]
Hereditary peer, holders of titles which can be inherited by an heir; Life peer, members of the peerage of the United Kingdom whose titles cannot be inherited; Peerage of England, holders of English titles created before 1707; Peerage of Great Britain, holders of titles created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between 1707 and 1800