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British nobility refers to the noble families of the United Kingdom. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ...
Nobility is a traditional hereditary status (see hereditary titles) that exists today in many countries (mainly present or former monarchies). ...
General history of British nobility
The nobility of the four constituent home nations of the United Kingdom has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although in the present day nobles do not command anywhere near as much power as they have done in the past. The British nobility constists of two entities, the peerage and gentry. Members of the peerage are titled (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron), frequently referred to as peers or lords. The rest of the nobility is reffered as gentry, and with the exception of the baronet, which is a title of hereditary knight, or of those that are knighted (for life), being called Sir X Y, they bear no titles apart from the qualification of esquire or gentleman (which is a legal qualification). Home Nations (often written as the common noun home nations) is a term used to refer to the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — collectively but as separate entities, distinct from the United Kingdom as a state[]. The term is also used to...
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Before the twentieth century, peerages were generally hereditary and (with a few exceptions), descended in the male line. The eldest son of a Duke, Marquis or Earl frequently has a courtesy title - often one of his father's subsidiary titles. For example, the eldest son of the Earl of Snowdon is called Viscount Lindley.
English peers were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but only a limited number of Scottish and Irish peers could do so. A member of the House of Lords could not be a member of the House of Commons. In 1960, Anthony Wedgewood Benn, MP inherited his father's title as Viscount Stansgate. He fought and won the ensuing by election, but was disqualified from taking his seat. As a result an act was passed enabling peers to renounce their titles. This article is about the British House of Lords. ...
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Tony Benn about to join March 2005 anti-war demo in London Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician on the left of the Labour Party. ...
During the 1960s, the government introduced (non-hereditary) life peers and ceased creating hereditary peers. This convention was not observed by Margaret Thatcher who created a few new hereditary peers. The reform of the House of Lords under Tony Blair reduced the number of hereditary peers entitled to sit in the Lords. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...
As wealthy educated well-connected landowners, nobles were involved in several rebellions and plots aimed at usurping the throne.
Ranks and titles
Dukes There are many Dukes in Britain. ...
This is a list of present dukes in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. ...
This page lists all dukedoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. ...
Marquesses This is a list of present Marquesses in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. ...
This page lists all marquessates, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. ...
Earls This is a list of present Earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. ...
This page lists all Earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. ...
Viscounts This is a list of present Viscounts in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. ...
This page lists all viscounties, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. ...
Barons This is a list of Barons (Lords of Parliament in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. ...
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Knights The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ...
The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals personal bravery, achievement or service to the United Kingdom. ...
Lesser titles Esquire (abbreviated Esq. ...
The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or gens, and man, cognate with the French word gentilhomme, the Spanish gentilhombre, and the Italian gentil uomo or gentiluomo), in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, the Latin generosus (its invariable translation in English...
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