Pre-1876 Life Peerages
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Life Peer
ages created prior to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
and the Life Peerages Act 1958
.
Life peer
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as...
ages created prior to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
The Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the judicial functions of the House of Lords. The act was repealed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which transferred the judicial functions from the House of Lords to the Supreme Court of the...
and the Life Peerages Act 1958
Life Peerages Act 1958
The Life Peerages Act 1958 established the modern standards for the creation of life peers by the monarch of the United Kingdom. Life peers are barons and are members of the House of Lords for life, but their titles and membership in the Lords are not inherited by their children. Judicial life...
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Richard II (1377-1399)
- 1377 – Guichard d'Angle, Earl of Huntingdon
- 1385 – Robert de Vere, Marquess of DublinRobert de Vere, Duke of IrelandRobert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, Marquess of Dublin, and 9th Earl of Oxford KG was a favourite and court companion of King Richard II of England.-Royal favour:...
- 1386 – Robert de Vere, Duke of IrelandRobert de Vere, Duke of IrelandRobert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, Marquess of Dublin, and 9th Earl of Oxford KG was a favourite and court companion of King Richard II of England.-Royal favour:...
- 1386 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland
- 1397 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk
Henry VIII (1509-1547)
- 1514: Thomas Howard, Earl of SurreyThomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkThomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, KG, Earl Marshal was a prominent Tudor politician. He was uncle to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two of the wives of King Henry VIII, and played a major role in the machinations behind these marriages...
Charles I (1625-1649)
- 1640 – Mary Howard, Baroness Stafford
- 1688 – Mary Howard, Countess of Stafford
- 1641 – Elizabeth Savage, Countess RiversElizabeth Savage, Countess RiversElizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers and Viscountess Savage was an English courtier and a victim of uprisings during the English Civil War...
- 1644 – Alice Dudley, Duchess of Dudley
Charles II (1660-1685)
- 1660 – Katherine Stanhope, Countess of ChesterfieldKatherine Stanhope, Countess of ChesterfieldKatherine Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield was the governess and confidante of Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange.She was born eldest daughter to Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Arthur Throckmorton of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire.She first married...
- 1660 – Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of GuilfordElizabeth Boyle, Countess of GuilfordElizabeth Boyle, Countess of Guilford was an English peeress. She was created 1st Countess of Guildford for life at the Restoration on 14 July 1660, which became extinct upon her death c. 3 September 1667...
- 1660 – William Douglas, Duke of HamiltonWilliam Douglas, Duke of HamiltonWilliam Douglas-Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Hamilton, KG, PC , born Lord William Douglas, was the son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas and his second wife Lady Mary Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly...
- 1660 – Walter Scott, Earl of TarrasWalter Scott, Earl of TarrasWalter Scott, 1st Earl of Tarras, 1st Baron Almoor and Campcastill was a Scottish nobleman.Born Walter Scott of Highchesters, he married his kinswoman Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch, daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Leslie, on 9 February 1659 in Wemyss,...
- 1672 – James Wemyss, Lord BurntislandJames Wemyss, Lord BurntislandJames Wemyss, Lord Burntisland was a Scottish peer.Weymss was the son of General Sir James Wemyss of Caskieberry. On 28 March 1672, he married his cousin, Lady Margaret Wemyss and they later had three surviving children:...
- 1673 – Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of PortsmouthLouise de Kérouaille, Duchess of PortsmouthLouise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth was a mistress of Charles II of England. Through her son by Charles II, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, she is ancestress of both wives of The Prince of Wales: the late Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as The Duchess of...
- 1674 – Anne Murray, Viscountess Bayning
- 1674 – Susan Belasyse, Baroness Belasyse
- 1679 – Sarah Corbet, Viscountess Corbet
- 1680 – Elizabeth Walter, Countess of Sheppey
- 1685 – Francis Abercromby, Lord Glasford
James II (1685-1689)
- 1686 – Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester
- 1688 – Elizabeth Petty, Baroness Shelburne (Peerage of Ireland)
George I (1714-1727)
- 1716 – Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of MunsterEhrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and MunsterEhrengard Melusine Baroness von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster was born at Emden near Magdeburg. Her middle name was probably given in reference to the Melusine legends. Her brother was Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg...
(Peerage of Ireland)- 1719 – Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of KendalEhrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and MunsterEhrengard Melusine Baroness von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster was born at Emden near Magdeburg. Her middle name was probably given in reference to the Melusine legends. Her brother was Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg...
- 1719 – Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal
- 1721 – Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, Countess of Leinster (Peerage of Ireland)
- 1722 – Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington
- 1722 – Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of WalsinghamMelusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of WalsinghamPetronilla Melusine von der Schulenburg, 1st Countess of Walsingham was the illegitimate daughter of King George I of Great Britain and his longtime mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal....
George II (1727-1760)
- 1740 – Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden, Countess of YarmouthAmalie von Wallmoden, Countess of YarmouthAmalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden, 1st Countess of Yarmouth was the mistress of George II of Great Britain from the mid-1730s until his death in 1760. Born into one prominent family in Hanover and wed into another, she became a naturalised citizen of Britain in 1740 and was granted the life...
- 1758 – Ellis Bermingham, Countess of BrandonEllis Bermingham, Countess of BrandonEllis Bermingham was born in 1708 as Ellis Agar, daughter of James Agar and Mary Wemyss. She married, first , Theobald Bourke, 7th Viscount Mayo, and after his death in 1742 married secondly Francis Bermingham, 14th Baron Athenry .In 1758 Ellis Bermingham was granted the title "Countess of...