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Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland were created by English and British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. Irish peers were not initially granted a seat in the House of Lords and so allowed the grantee to sit in the House of Commons. Viscounts of Ireland have precedence below peers of England, Scotland, and Great Britain of ...
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Burial sites of noble families of the ... Acton family (17 P) Aitken family (1 C, 21 P) Alexander family (British aristocracy ...
Peer Son Grandson Great-grandson The Duke of Norfolk: Earl of Arundel*: Lord Maltravers The Duke of Somerset: Lord Seymour* [1]The Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon: Earl of March and Kinrara*
The British nobility in the narrow sense consists of Peers, not even including their wives. Members of the peerage carry the titles of duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron (in Scotland, lord of parliament). British peers are sometimes referred to generically as lords, although individual dukes are not so styled when addressed or by reference.
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, when the Anglo-Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage , baronetage ...
British queen consort and last Empress of India [13] George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth: 1919–2022: 102: British peer and Lord Lieutenant [14] Baron Eduard von Falz-Fein: 1912–2018: 106: Russian-born Liechtensteiner businessman [15] Alexandra Pavlovna Galitzine: 1905–2006: 101: Russian princess [16] Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton ...
Notes. Numbers in brackets indicate places in the line of succession. [1] [2] [3]Boxes indicate living individuals with royal titles and styles. Purple indicates living individuals listed or described as members of the royal family on the official website.