"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." - Edmund Burke
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." - Thomas Jefferson
THE PEERAGE OF ENGLAND
- 1337 - The Duke of Cornwall
- 1483 - The Duke of Norfolk
- 1547 - The Duke of Somerset
- 1675 - The Duke of Richmond
- 1675 - The Duke of Grafton
- 1682 - The Duke of Beaufort
- 1684 - The Duke of St Albans
- 1694 - The Duke of Bedford
- 1694 - The Duke of Devonshire
- 1702 - The Duke of Marlborough
- 1703 - The Duke of Rutland
- 1551 - The Marquess of Winchester
- 1442 - The Earl of Shrewsbury
- 1485 - The Earl of Derby
- 1529 - The Earl of Huntingdon
- 1551 - The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (1605)
- 1553 - The Earl of Devon
- 1572 - The Earl of Lincoln
- 1603 - The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire (1626)
- 1605 - The Earl of Exeter
- 1605 - The Earl of Salisbury
- 1618 - The Earl of Northampton
- 1622 - The Earl of Denbigh
- 1624 - The Earl of Westmorland
- 1626 - The Earl of Manchester
- 1626 - The Earl of Lindsey and Abingdon (1682)
- 1628 - The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham (1681)
- 1660 - The Earl of Sandwich
- 1661 - The Earl of Essex
- 1661 - The Earl of Cardigan
- 1661 - The Earl of Carlisle
- 1663 - The Earl of Doncaster
- 1672 - The Earl of Shaftesbury
- 1689 - The Earl of Portland
- 1690 - The Earl of Scarbrough
- 1697 - The Earl of Albemarle
- 1697 - The Earl of Coventry
- 1697 - The Earl of Jersey
- 1706 - The Earl of Cholmondeley
- 1550 - The Viscount Hereford
- 1682 - The Viscount Townshend
- 1682 - The Viscount Weymouth
- 1264 - The Lord de Ros
- 1264 - The Lord le Despencer
- 1283 - The Lord Mowbray, Segrave (1295) and Stourton (1448)
- 1295 - The Lord Hastings
- 1295 - The Lord FitzWalter
- 1299 - The Lord Clinton
- 1299 - The Lord De La Warr
- 1299 - The Lord de Clifford
- 1299 - The Lord Strange, Hungerford (1426) and de Moleyns (1445)
- 1308 - The Lord Zouche
- 1313 - The Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
- 1318 - The Lord Strabolgi
- 1321 - The Baroness Dacre
- 1324 - The Baroness Grey de Ruthyn
- 1331 - The Baroness Darcy de Knayth
- 1375 - The Lord Cromwell
- 1383 - The Lord Camoys
- 1397 - The Lord Grey of Codnor
- 1421 - The Lord Berkeley
- 1432 - The Lord Latymer
- 1440 - The Lord Dudley
- 1447 - The Lord Saye and Sele
- 1455 - The Baroness Berners
- 1461 - The Lord Herbert
- 1491 - The Lord Willoughby de Broke
- 1523 - The Lord Vaux of Harrowden
- 1529 - The Baroness Braye
- 1529 - The Lord Windsor
- 1529 - The Lord Burgh
- 1544 - The Lord Wharton
- 1554 - The Lord Howard of Effingham
- 1559 - The Lord St John of Bletso
- 1597 - The Baroness Howard de Walden
- 1603 - The Lord Petre
- 1608 - The Lord Clifton
- 1615 - The Lord Dormer
- 1616 - The Lord Teynham
- 1621 - The Lord Brooke
- 1626 - The Lord Craven
- 1628 - The Lord Strange
- 1640 - The Lord Stafford
- 1643 - The Lord Byron
- 1644 - The Lord Ward
- 1663 - The Lord Lucas of Crudwell
- 1665 - The Baroness Arlington
- 1672 - The Lord Clifford of Chudleigh
- 1683 - The Lord Guilford
- 1683 - The Lord Waldegrave
- 1698 - The Lord Barnard
- 1703 - The Lord Guernsey
- 1703 - The Lord Gower
- 1703 - The Lord Conway
- 1703 - The Lord Hervey
- 1398 - The Duke of Rothesay
- 1643 - The Duke of Hamilton
- 1663 - The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (1684)
- 1581 - The Duke of Lennox
- 1701 - The Duke of Argyll
- 1703 - The Duke of Atholl
- 1707 - The Duke of Montrose
- 1707 - The Duke of Roxburghe
- 1476 - The Marquess of Ormonde (Royal House of Stuart since 1600)
- 1599 - The Marquess of Huntly
- 1682 - The Marquess of Queensberry
- 1694 - The Marquess of Tweeddale
- 1701 - The Marquess of Lothian
- 1398 - The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (1651)
- 1445 - The Earl of Ormonde
- 1452 - The Earl of Erroll
- 1404 - The Countess of Mar
- 1430 - The Countess of Sutherland
- 1457 - The Earl of Rothes
- 1458 - The Earl of Morton
- 1469 - The Earl of Buchan
- 1507 - The Earl of Eglinton
- 1509 - The Earl of Cassilis
- 1555 - The Earl of Caithness
- 1565 - The Earl of Mar and Kellie (1619)
- 1562 - The Earl of Moray
- 1605 - The Earl of Home
- 1605 - The Earl of Perth
- 1606 - The Earl of Abercorn
- 1606 - The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1606)
- 1619 - The Earl of Haddington
- 1623 - The Earl of Galloway
- 1624 - The Earl of Lauderdale
- 1633 - The Earl of Lindsay
- 1633 - The Earl of Loudoun
- 1633 - The Earl of Kinnoull
- 1633 - The Earl of Dumfries and Bute (1703)
- 1633 - The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine (1647)
- 1633 - The Earl of Southesk
- 1633 - The Earl of Wemyss and March (1697)
- 1633 - The Earl of Dalhousie
- 1639 - The Earl of Airlie
- 1641 - The Earl of Leven and Melville (1690)
- 1643 - The Countess of Dysart
- 1646 - The Earl of Selkirk
- 1647 - The Earl of Northesk
- 1660 - The Earl of Dundee
- 1660 - The Earl of Newburgh
- 1661 - The Earl of Forfar
- 1662 - The Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
- 1669 - The Earl of Dundonald
- 1677 - The Earl of Kintore
- 1682 - The Earl of Aberdeen
- 1686 - The Earl of Dunmore
- 1696 - The Earl of Orkney
- 1701 - The Earl of Seafield
- 1703 - The Earl of Stair
- 1703 - The Earl of Rosebery
- 1703 - The Earl of Glasgow
- 1703 - The Earl of Hopetoun
- 1620 - The Viscount (of) Falkland
- 1621 - The Viscount (of) Stormont
- 1641 - The Viscount of Arbuthnott
- 1651 - The Viscount of Oxfuird
- 1442 - The Lord Forbes
- 1445 - The Lord Gray
- 1445 - The Lady Saltoun
- 1449 - The Lord Sinclair
- 1452 - The Lord Borthwick
- 1452 - The Lord Cathcart
- 1464 - The Lord Lovat
- 1488 - The Lord Sempill
- 1490 - The Lady Herries
- 1510 - The Lord Elphinstone
- 1564 - The Lord Torphichen
- 1602 - The Lady Kinloss
- 1604 - The Lord Colville of Culross
- 1607 - The Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- 1609 - The Lord Dingwall
- 1627 - The Lord Napier of Merchistoun
- 1627 - The Lord Fairfax of Cameron
- 1628 - The Lord Reay
- 1633 - The Lord Forrester
- 1643 - The Lord Elibank
- 1647 - The Lord Belhaven and Stenton
- 1651 - The Lord Rollo
- 1651 - The Lord Ruthven of Freeland
- 1681 - The Lord Nairne
- 1690 - The Lord Polwarth
- 1766 - The Duke of Leinster
- 1868 - The Duke of Abercorn
- 1789 - The Marquess of Waterford
- 1789 - The Marquess of Downshire
- 1791 - The Marquess of Donegall
- 1800 - The Marquess of Headfort
- 1800 - The Marquess of Sligo
- 1801 - The Marquess of Ely
- 1816 - The Marquess Conyngham
- 1816 - The Marquess of Londonderry
- 1446 - The Earl of Waterford
- 1620 - The Earl of Cork and Orrery (1660)
- 1621 - The Earl of Westmeath
- 1622 - The Earl of Desmond
- 1627 - The Earl of Meath
- 1647 - The Earl of Cavan
- 1660 - The Earl of Mountrath
- 1661 - The Earl of Drogheda
- 1684 - The Earl of Granard
- 1689 - The Earl of Bellomont
- 1722 - The Earl of Milltown
- 1722 - The Earl of Kerry and Shelburne (1753)
- 1725 - The Earl of Darnley
- 1733 - The Earl of Egmont
- 1739 - The Earl of Bessborough
- 1748 - The Earl of Carrick
- 1756 - The Earl of Shannon
- 1760 - The Earl of Mornington
- 1762 - The Earl of Arran
- 1762 - The Earl of Courtown
- 1766 - The Earl of Mexborough
- 1766 - The Earl Winterton
- 1768 - The Earl of Kingston
- 1771 - The Earl of Roden
- 1776 - The Earl of Lisburne
- 1776 - The Earl of Clanwilliam
- 1776 - The Earl of Antrim
- 1785 - The Earl of Carhampton
- 1785 - The Earl of Longford
- 1785 - The Earl of Portarlington
- 1785 - The Earl of Mayo
- 1789 - The Earl Annesley
- 1789 - The Earl of Enniskillen
- 1789 - The Earl Erne
- 1795 - The Earl of Lucan
- 1797 - The Earl Belmore
- 1800 - The Earl Castle Stewart
- 1800 - The Earl of Donoughmore
- 1800 - The Earl of Caledon
- 1803 - The Earl of Limerick
- 1803 - The Earl of Clancarty
- 1806 - The Earl of Gosford
- 1806 - The Earl of Rosse
- 1806 - The Earl of Normanton
- 1822 - The Earl of Kilmorey
- 1822 - The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
- 1822 - The Earl of Listowel
- 1827 - The Earl of Norbury
- 1831 - The Earl of Ranfurly
- 1478 - The Viscount Gormanston
- 1550 - The Viscount Mountgarret
- 1621 - The Viscount Wilmot
- 1622 - The Viscount Valentia
- 1622 - The Viscount Dillon
- 1628 - The Viscount Lumley
- 1660 - The Viscount Massereene and Ferrard (1797)
- 1661 - The Viscount Cholmondeley
- 1665 - The Viscount Charlemont
- 1681 - The Viscount Downe
- 1716 - The Viscount Molesworth
- 1717 - The Viscount Chetwynd
- 1717 - The Viscount Midleton
- 1717 - The Viscount Boyne
- 1719 - The Viscount Grimston
- 1720 - The Viscount Gage
- 1720 - The Viscount Barrington
- 1723 - The Viscount Palmerston
- 1727 - The Viscount Galway
- 1743 - The Viscount Powerscourt
- 1751 - The Viscount Ashbrook
- 1766 - The Viscount Langford
- 1776 - The Viscount Southwell
- 1776 - The Viscount De Vesci
- 1781 - The Viscount Lifford
- 1781 - The Viscount Bangor
- 1785 - The Viscount Doneraile
- 1791 - The Viscount Harberton
- 1793 - The Viscount Hawarden
- 1796 - The Viscount Mountjoy
- 1801 - The Viscount Monck
- 1816 - The Viscount Gort
- 1397 - The Lord Kingsale
- 1439 - The Lord Dunsany
- 1461 - The Lord Trimlestown
- 1541 - The Lord Dunboyne
- 1541 - The Lord Louth
- 1543 - The Lord Inchiquin
- 1620 - The Lord Digby
- 1625 - The Lord Baltimore
- 1712 - The Lord Conway and Killutagh
- 1715 - The Lord Carbery
- 1718 - The Lord Aylmer
- 1756 - The Lord Farnham
- 1758 - The Lord Lisle of Mountnorth
- 1762 - The Lord Clive of Plassey
- 1776 - The Lord Westcote of Balamere
- 1776 - The Lord Macdonald of Slate
- 1776 - The Lord Kensington
- 1776 - The Lord Newborough
- 1776 - The Lord Massy
- 1781 - The Lord Muskerry
- 1782 - The Lord Hood of Catherington
- 1783 - The Lord Sheffield
- 1789 - The Lord Kilmaine
- 1789 - The Lord Auckland
- 1792 - The Lord Waterpark
- 1794 - The Lord Bridport of Cricket St Thomas
- 1794 - The Lord Graves
- 1796 - The Lord Huntingfield
- 1796 - The Lord Carrington
- 1796 - The Lord Rossmore
- 1797 - The Lord Hotham
- 1797 - The Lord Crofton
- 1798 - The Lord ffrench
- 1799 - The Lord Henley
- 1800 - The Lord Langford
- 1800 - The Lord Henniker
- 1800 - The Lord Ventry
- 1800 - The Lord Dunalley
- 1800 - The Lord Clanmorris
- 1800 - The Lord Ashtown
- 1806 - The Lord Rendlesham
- 1812 - The Lord Castlemaine
- 1812 - The Lord Decies
- 1818 - The Lord Garvagh
- 1831 - The Lord Talbot of Malahide
- 1834 - The Lord Carew
- 1836 - The Lord Oranmore and Browne
- 1848 - The Lord Bellew
- 1868 - The Lord Rathdonnell
- 1711 - The Duke of Brandon
- 1719 - The Duke of Manchester
- 1766 - The Duke of Northumberland
- 1784 - The Marquess of Lansdowne
- 1787 - The Marquess Townshend
- 1786 - The Marquess of Stafford
- 1789 - The Marquess of Salisbury
- 1789 - The Marquess of Bath
- 1790 - The Marquess of Abercorn
- 1793 - The Marquess of Hertford
- 1796 - The Marquess of Bute
- 1711 - The Earl Ferrers
- 1711 - The Earl of Dartmouth
- 1714 - The Earl of Bristol
- 1714 - The Earl of Tankerville
- 1714 - The Earl of Aylesford
- 1721 - The Earl of Macclesfield
- 1722 - The Earl of Graham
- 1729 - The Earl Waldegrave
- 1742 - The Earl of Harrington
- 1743 - The Earl of Portsmouth
- 1746 - The Earl Brooke and of Warwick (1759)
- 1746 - The Earl of Buckinghamshire
- 1752 - The Earl of Guilford
- 1754 - The Earl of Hardwicke
- 1756 - The Earl of Ilchester
- 1761 - The Earl De La Warr
- 1765 - The Earl of Radnor
- 1765 - The Earl Spencer
- 1772 - The Earl Bathurst
- 1772 - The Earl of Hillsborough
- 1776 - The Earl of Ailesbury
- 1776 - The Earl of Clarendon
- 1792 - The Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
- 1784 - The Earl of Abergavenny
- 1784 - The Earl of Uxbridge
- 1784 - The Earl Talbot
- 1784 - The Earl Grosvenor
- 1786 - The Earl Camden
- 1789 - The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
- 1789 - The Earl Fortescue
- 1793 - The Earl of Carnarvon
- 1800 - The Earl Cadogan
- 1800 - The Earl of Malmesbury
- 1712 - The Viscount Bolingbroke and (1716) St John
- 1718 - The Viscount Cobham
- 1720 - The Viscount Falmouth
- 1721 - The Viscount Torrington
- 1747 - The Viscount Leinster
- 1796 - The Viscount Hood
- 1796 - The Viscount Lowther
- 1711 - The Lord Middleton
- 1711 - The Lord Boyle of Marston
- 1711 - The Lord Hay of Pedwardine
- 1716 - The Lord Onslow
- 1716 - The Lord Romney
- 1716 - The Lord Newburgh
- 1723 - The Lord Walpole and (1756) Walpole
- 1725 - The Lord King
- 1728 - The Lord Monson
- 1746 - The Lord Bruce of Tottenham
- 1749 - The Lord Ponsonby of Sysonby
- 1750 - The Lord Vere of Hanworth
- 1761 - The Lord Scarsdale
- 1761 - The Lord Boston
- 1762 - The Lord Pelham of Stanmer
- 1762 - The Lord Lovel and Holland
- 1762 - The Lord Vernon
- 1763 - The Lord Ducie
- 1765 - The Lord Digby
- 1766 - The Lord Sundridge
- 1776 - The Lord Hawke
- 1776 - The Lord Brownlow
- 1776 - The Lord Harrowby
- 1776 - The Lord Foley
- 1776 - The Lord Cranley
- 1780 - The Lord Dynevor
- 1780 - The Lord Walsingham
- 1780 - The Lord Bagot
- 1780 - The Lord Southampton
- 1782 - The Lord Grantley
- 1782 - The Lord Rodney
- 1784 - The Lord Eliot of St Germans
- 1784 - The Lord Somers
- 1784 - The Lord Boringdon
- 1786 - The Lord Tyrone of Haverfordwest
- 1786 - The Lord Carleton
- 1786 - The Lord Suffield
- 1788 - The Lord Kenyon
- 1788 - The Lord Howe of Langar
- 1788 - The Lord Braybrooke
- 1790 - The Lord Fisherwick
- 1790 - The Lord Verulam
- 1790 - The Lord Gage of High Meadow
- 1792 - The Lord Thurlow
- 1793 - The Lord Auckland
- 1794 - The Lord Bradford
- 1794 - The Lord Dundas
- 1794 - The Lord Mendip
- 1794 - The Lord Mulgrave
- 1794 - The Lord Yarborough
- 1795 - The Lord Loughborough
- 1796 - The Lord Rous
- 1796 - The Lord Stuart of Castle Stuart
- 1796 - The Lord Stewart of Garlies
- 1796 - The Lord Harewood
- 1796 - The Lord Cawdor
- 1797 - The Lord Carrington
- 1797 - The Lord Bolton
- 1797 - The Lord Minto
- 1797 - The Lord Lilford
- 1797 - The Lord Wodehouse
- 1799 - The Lord Eldon
- 1814 - The Duke of Wellington
- 1833 - The Duke of Sutherland
- 1874 - The Duke of Westminster
- 1876 - The Duke of Gordon
- 1892 - The Duke of Argyll
- 1900 - The Duke of Fife
- 1928 - The Duke of Gloucester
- 1934 - The Duke of Kent
- 1947 - The Duke of Edinburgh
- 1986 - The Duke of York
- 1801 - The Marquess of Exeter
- 1812 - The Marquess of Northampton
- 1812 - The Marquess Camden
- 1815 - The Marquess of Anglesey
- 1815 - The Marquess of Cholmondeley
- 1821 - The Marquess of Ailesbury
- 1826 - The Marquess of Bristol
- 1831 - The Marquess of Ailsa
- 1838 - The Marquess of Normanby
- 1876 - The Marquess of Abergavenny
- 1892 - The Marquess of Zetland
- 1902 - The Marquess of Linlithgow
- 1916 - The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- 1917 - The Marquess of Milford Haven
- 1926 - The Marquess of Reading
- 1801 - The Earl of Rosslyn
- 1801 - The Earl of Craven
- 1801 - The Earl of Onslow
- 1801 - The Earl of Romney
- 1801 - The Earl of Chichester
- 1801 - The Earl of Wilton
- 1804 - The Earl of Powis
- 1805 - The Earl Nelson
- 1806 - The Earl Grey
- 1807 - The Earl of Lonsdale
- 1809 - The Earl of Harrowby
- 1812 - The Earl of Harewood
- 1813 - The Earl of Minto
- 1814 - The Earl Cathcart
- 1815 - The Earl of Verulam
- 1815 - The Earl of St Germans
- 1815 - The Earl of Morley
- 1815 - The Earl of Bradford
- 1821 - The Earl of Eldon
- 1821 - The Earl Howe
- 1821 - The Earl of Stradbroke
- 1822 - The Earl Temple of Stowe
- 1823 - The Earl Vane
- 1827 - The Earl Cawdor
- 1831 - The Earl of Burlington
- 1831 - The Earl of Lichfield
- 1833 - The Earl of Durham
- 1833 - The Earl Granville
- 1837 - The Earl of Effingham
- 1837 - The Earl of Ducie
- 1837 - The Earl of Yarborough
- 1837 - The Earl Innes
- 1837 - The Earl of Leicester
- 1838 - The Earl of Lovelace
- 1841 - The Earl of Gainsborough
- 1847 - The Earl of Strafford
- 1850 - The Earl of Cottenham
- 1857 - The Earl Cowley
- 1859 - The Earl of Winton
- 1860 - The Earl of Dudley
- 1861 - The Earl Russell
- 1861 - The Earl of Cromartie
- 1866 - The Earl of Kimberley
- 1876 - The Earl of Wharncliffe
- 1878 - The Earl Cairns
- 1880 - The Earl of Lytton
- 1882 - The Earl of Selborne
- 1885 - The Earl of Iddesleigh
- 1892 - The Earl of Cranbrook
- 1898 - The Earl of Halsbury
- 1901 - The Earl of Cromer
- 1905 - The Earl of Plymouth
- 1905 - The Earl of Liverpool
- 1911 - The Earl of Midlothian
- 1914 - The Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
- 1915 - The Earl St Aldwyn
- 1919 - The Earl Beatty
- 1919 - The Earl Haig
- 1919 - The Earl of Iveagh
- 1922 - The Earl of Balfour
- 1925 - The Earl of Oxford and Asquith
- 1925 - The Earl Jellicoe
- 1929 - The Earl of Inchcape
- 1929 - The Earl Peel
- 1937 - The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
- 1937 - he Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
- 1944 - The Earl of Halifax
- 1945 - The Earl of Gowrie
- 1945 - The Earl Lloyd George
- 1947 - The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
- 1952 - The Earl Alexander of Tunis
- 1955 - The Earl of Swinton
- 1955 - The Earl Attlee
- 1958 - The Earl of Chester
- 1961 - The Earl of Snowdon
- 1984 - The Earl of Stockton
- 1999 - The Earl of Wessex
4 comments:
Good project. I've studied lots of British history, but I still don't always get the peerage. Is there any particular order to this? And what do the dates represent,exactly?
Those are the dates when the particular peerage was created in law. The Prince of Wales is currently also the Duke of Cornwall, which is the oldest extant dukedom in England, created way back in 1337 by King Edward III I believe. Of course there have been many Dukes of Cornwall since then, which is usually passed on to the oldest son when the father dies. Historically, you have to be royalty or have done a pretty extraordinary thing to be awarded such an honour by a grateful nation (such as when Arthur Wellesly defeated Napolean at Waterloo, becoming the Duke of Wellington in the process). To wit, they wanted to make Churchill the Duke of Dover following the Second World War, but he turned it down.
I believe that the title offered to Winston Churchill in 1945 was in fact Duke of London, which he declined as he wanted to remain in the House of Commons. When he retired as Prime Minister some 10 years later, it is believed that he was tempted to accept an offer of a dukedom from our present Queen.
Could you please tell me is there any Duke of Chandon 1765? Any information on this would be helpful
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