Peerages in the United Kingdom

The peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in the United Kingdom (as elsewhere in Europe), comprising various noble ranks, and forms a constituent part of the British honours system.

The term peerage can be used both collectively to refer to the entire body of nobles (or a subdivision thereof), and individually to refer to a specific title (modern English language-style using an initial capital in the former case but not the latter). British peerage title holders are termed peers of the Realm.

Under present custom, only members of the Royal Family are nowadays created hereditary peers; the last non-royal creations of hereditary titles being in the Thatcher era, since when Her Majesty's Government (HMG) (whether Conservative or Labour) has refrained from such recommendations. New Labour, elected to power in 1997, sought to eject all hereditary peers from Parliament but PM Tony Blair relented by allowing only 92 members to remain by legislation enacted in 1999.

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Peerage (disambiguation)

Peerage may refer to:

Canada

  • Canadian peerages in the nobility of France

    • France

  • Peerage of France & crusader kingdom of Jerusalem
  • List of French peerages

    • United Kingdom, British Isles and British Empire

  • Peerage of the United Kingdom and British Empire

    • British Isles

  • Peerages in the United Kingdom
  • Peerage of England
  • Welsh peers and baronets
  • Peerage of Ireland
  • Peerage of Scotland
  • Peerage of Great Britain
  • Canadian peerages in the nobility of the United Kingdom
  • List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

    • Peerage may also refer to:

  • Peerage Act 1963
  • Jacobite Peerage
  • Hereditary peer
  • Life peer

    • Various places

  • Pairie

    • Publications

  • Burke's Peerage, publishes guides to the royal and titled families of the United Kingdom and many other countries
  • The Complete Peerage, a comprehensive and magisterial work on the titled aristocracy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and, later, the United Kingdom and Ireland
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