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This is a list of the 34 present and extant marquesses in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922.
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):
The Marquess of Winchester (created in 1551) is the oldest surviving English or British marquessate, and as a result the holder of the title is considered the "Premier Marquess of England". Since marquessates in England created after 1707 became marquessates of Great Britain and, from 1801, of the United Kingdom , he is now the only English ...
Title Creation Other marquessate or higher titles The Marquess of Winchester [b]: 1551 The Marquess of Worcester 1643 Duke of Beaufort in the Peerage of England The Marquess of Tavistock
Primary title Family seat Former seats Marquess of Winchester: Basing House: Marquess of Lansdowne: Bowood House, Wiltshire: Lansdowne House: Marquess Townshend: Raynham Hall, Norfolk: Marquess of Salisbury: Hatfield House, Hertfordshire and Cranborne Manor, Dorset: Marquess of Bath: Longleat House, Wiltshire: Marquess of Hertford: Ragley Hall ...
A new marquess hasn’t been named since the Marquess of Willingdon in 1936 and anyone else with a marquess or marchioness title inherited it from their father. Like other titles in the peerage ...
The ranks of the peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. [7]The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1874, and the last marquessate was created in 1936. . Creation of the remaining ranks, except baronies for life, mostly ceased once Harold Wilson's Labour government took office in 1964, and only thirteen (nine non-royal and four royal) people have been created hereditary peers sinc
The dignity, rank, or position of the title is a marquisate or marquessate. The honorific prefix "The Most Honourable" precedes the name of a marquess or marchioness of the United Kingdom. [5] In Great Britain, and historically in Ireland, the spelling of this title is marquess. In Scotland, the French spelling marquis is sometimes used.