List of Marquessates in the peerages of the British Isles
Encyclopedia
This page lists all marquess
ates, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerage
s of England
, Scotland
, Great Britain
, Ireland
and the United Kingdom
.
!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
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|Marquess of Dublin||1 December 1385||Vere||resigned 13 October 1386|| created Duke of Ireland
in 1386. Might be considered an Irish peerage.
|-
|Marquess of Dorset
||29 September 1397||Beaufort||deprived 6 October 1399||also Marquess of Somerset
|-
|Marquess of Somerset||29 September 1397|| Beaufort||deprived 6 October 1399||also Marquess of Dorset
|-
|Marquess of Dorset
||24 June 1442||Beaufort||forfeit 3 April 1464||created Duke of Somerset
in 1448; also forfeit 1461-1463
|-
|Marquess of Suffolk||14 September 1444||de la Pole||surrendered title 26 February 1493||created Duke of Suffolk
in 1448
|-
|Marquess of Montagu
||25 March 1470||Nevill||forfeit 14 April 1471||
|-
|Marquess of Dorset
||18 April 1475||Grey||forfeit 23 February 1554||forfeit between 1483 and 1485; created Duke of Suffolk
in 1551.
|-
|Marquess of Berkeley||28 January 1489||Berkeley||extinct 14 February 1492||
|-
|Marquess of Exeter
||18 June 1525||Courtenay||forfeit 9 January 1539||
|-
|Marquess of Pembroke
||1 September 1532||Boleyn||forfeit 19 May 1536||holder
was also queen consort from 1533 to 1536
|-
|Marquess of Northampton
||16 February 1547|| Parr|| extinct 28 October 1571||forfeit 1554–13 January 1559
|-
|Marquess of Winchester
||11 October 1551||Paulet||extant||created Duke of Bolton in 1689, that title extinct 1794
|-
|Marquess of Buckingham||1 January 1618||Villiers||extinct 16 April 1687||created Duke of Buckingham
in 1623
|-
|Marquess of Hertford
||3 June 1641||Seymour||extinct 29 April 1675||restored to Dukedom of Somerset
in 1660
|-
|Marquess of Worcester||2 March 1643||Somerset||extant||created Duke of Beaufort
in 1682
|-
|Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne||27 October 1643||Cavendish||extinct 26 July 1691||created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in 1665
|-
|Marquess of Dorchester||25 March 1645||Pierrepont||extinct 8 December 1680||
|-
|Marquess of Halifax
||17 August 1682||Saville||extinct 31 August 1700||
|-
|Marquess of Powis
||24 March 1687||Herbert||extinct 8 March 1748||
|-
|Marquess of Carmarthen||9 April 1689||Osborne||extinct 20 March 1964||created Duke of Leeds
in 1694
|-
|Marquess of Harwich||10 April 1689||Schomberg||extinct 5 July 1719||subsidiary title of the Duke of Schomberg
; also Duke of Leinster
in Ireland
from 1693
|-
|Marquess of Alton||30 April 1694||Talbot||extinct 1 February 1718||subsidiary title of the Duke of Shrewsbury
|-
|Marquess of Normanby
||10 May 1694||Sheffield||extinct 30 October 1735||created Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
in 1703
|-
|Marquess of Tavistock||11 May 1694||Russell|| extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Bedford
|-
|Marquess of Hartington||12 May 1694||Cavendish||extant||subisidary title of the Duke of Devonshire
|-
|Marquess of Clare||14 May 1694||Holles||extinct 15 July 1711||subsidiary title of the Duke of Newcastle
|-
|Marquess of Blandford||14 December 1702||Churchill||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Marlborough
|-
|Marquess of Granby||29 March 1703||Manners||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Rutland
|-
|Marquess of Monthermer||14 April 1705||Montagu||extinct 1749||subsidiary title of the Duke of Montagu
|-
|Marquess of Cambridge||9 November 1706||Guelph||merged in crown 11 June 1727||subsidiary title of the Duke of Cambridge
; also Prince of Wales
, Duke of Cornwall
, and Duke of Rothesay
from 1714
|-
|Marquess of Kent||14 November 1706||Grey||extinct 5 June 1740||created Duke of Kent
in 1710; created Marquess Grey in 1740
|-
|Marquess of Lindsey||21 December 1706||Bertie||extinct 8 February 1809||created Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven in 1715
|-
|Marquess of Dorchester||23 December 1706||Pierrepont||extinct 23 September 1773|| created Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
in 1715
!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
|-
|Marquess of Ormonde
||28 January 1488||Stewart||extinct 17 January 1504||subsidiary title of the Duke of Ross
|-
|Marquess of Fife|| 12 May 1567||Hepburn||forfeit 29 December 1567||subsidiary title of the Duke of Orkney
|-
|Marquess of Hamilton
||17 April 1599||Hamilton||extinct 12 September 1651||created Duke of Hamilton
and Marquess of Clydesdale in 1643
|-
|Marquess of Huntly
||17 April 1599||Gordon||extant||created Duke of Gordon
and Marquess of Huntly
in 1684, those titles extinct in 1836
|-
|Marquess of Ormonde
||23 December 1600||Stewart||merged in crown 27 March 1625||subsidiary title of the Duke of Albany
; created Duke of York
in England
in 1605; also Prince of Wales
, Duke of Cornwall
, and Duke of Rothesay
from 1612
|-
|Marquess of Wigtown||1602||Stewart||extinct 1602||subsidiary title of the Duke of Kintyre and Lorne
|-
|Marquess of Douglas||14 June 1633||Douglas||extant||created Duke of Douglas and Marquess of Angus and Abernethy in 1703, that title extinct in 1761; also Duke of Hamilton
, Duke of Brandon, Marquess of Hamilton
, and Marquess of Clydesdale from 1761
|-
|Marquess of Argyll||15 November 1641||Campbell||forfeit 27 May 1661||
|-
|Marquess of Clydesdale||12 April 1643||Hamilton||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Hamilton
; also Marquess of Hamilton
; created Duke of Brandon in 1711; also Marquess of Douglas from 1761
|-
|Marquess of Montrose||6 May 1644||Graham||extant||created Duke of Montrose
and Marquess of Graham and Buchanan in 1707
|-
|Marquess of March||1 May 1672||Maitland||extinct 24 August 1682||subsidiary title of the Duke of Lauderdale
|-
|Marquess of Atholl||17 February 1676||Murray||extant||created Duke of Atholl
and Marquess of Tullibardine in 1703
|-
|Marquess of Bambreich|| 29 May 1680||Leslie||extinct 27 July 1681||subsidiary title of the Duke of Rothes
|-
|Marquess of Queensberry
||11 February 1682||Douglas||extant||created Duke of Queensberry
and Marquess of Dumfriesshire in 1684. The titles were separated from 1711-1715 and again after 1810
|-
|Marquess of Dumfriesshire|| 3 November 1684|| Douglas||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Queensberry
; also Marquess of Queensbery 1684-1711 and 1715-1810; also Duke of Buccleuch
from 1810
|-
|Marquess of Huntly
||3 November 1684||Gordon||extinct 28 May 1836||subsidiary title of the Duke of Gordon
; also Marquess of Huntly
of the 1599 creation
|-
|Marquess of Tweeddale
||17 December 1694||Hay||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Kintyre and Lorne|| 23 June 1701||Campbell||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Argyll
; created Duke of Greenwich in Great Britain
1719-1743; created Duke of Argyll
in the United Kingdom
in 1892
|-
|Marquess of Lothian
|| 23 June 1701||Kerr||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Annandale||24 June 1701||Johnston/Johnstone/Vanden Bempde||dormant 29 April 1792||
|-
|Marquess of Angus and Abernethy||10 April 1703||Douglas||extinct 1761||subsidiary title of the Duke of Douglas
|-
|Marquess of Tullibardine||30 June 1703||Murray||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Atholl
; also Marquess of Atholl
|-
|Marquess of Graham and Buchanan|| 24 April 1707||Graham||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Montrose
; also Marquess of Montrose
|-
|Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford|| 25 April 1707||Ker||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Roxburghe
!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
|-
|Marquess of Beverley||26 May 1708||Douglas||extinct 22 October 1778||subsidiary title of the Duke of Dover, who was also Duke of Queensberry
and Marquess of Dumfriesshire in the Peerage of Scotland
; also Marquess of Queensberry
1708-1711 and 1715-1778
|-
|Marquess of Wharton||15 February 1715||Wharton||extinct 31 May 1731||also Marquess of Malmesbury and Marquess of Catherlough in Ireland
; created Duke of Wharton in 1718
|-
|Marquess of Malmesbury||15 February 1715||Wharton||extinct 31 May 1731||also Marquess of Wharton and Marquess of Catherlough in Ireland
; created Duke of Wharton in 1718
|-
|Marquess of Clare||11 August 1715||Pelham-Holles||extinct 1768||subsidiary title of the Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
|-
|Marquess of Titchfield||6 July 1716||Bentinck||extinct 30 July 1990||subsidiary title of the Duke of Portland
|-
|Marquess of Carnarvon||29 April 1719||Brydges||extinct 29 September 1789||subsidiary title of the Duke of Chandos
|-
|Marquess of Brackley||18 June 1720||Egerton||extinct 8 March 1803||subsidiary title of the Duke of Bridgewater
|-
|Marquess of the Isle of Ely||26 July 1726||Guelph||merged in crown 25 October 1760||subsidiary title of the Duke of Edinburgh
; also Prince of Wales
from 1727; also Duke of Cornwall
in England
and Duke of Rothesay
in Scotland
1727-1751
|-
|Marquess of Berkhampstead||27 July 1726||Guelph||extinct 31 October 1765||subsidiary title of the Duke of Cumberland
|-
|Marquess Grey||19 May 1740||Grey||extinct 19 January 1797||also Duke of Kent
and Marquess of Kent, until the duke's death later in 1740, when those titles became extinct; passed by special patent to his granddaughter
|-
|Marquess of Rockingham
||19 April 1746||Watson-Wentworth||extinct 2 July 1782||
|-
|Marquess of Monthermer||5 November 1766||Montagu||extinct 23 May 1790||subsidiary title of the Duke of Montagu
|-
|Marquess of Buckingham||4 December 1784||Temple-Nugent-Grenville||extinct 26 March 1889||created Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and Marquess of Chandos in 1822
|-
|Marquess of Lansdowne
||6 December 1784||Petty-Fitzmaurice||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Stafford||1 March 1786||Leveson-Gower||extant||created Duke of Sutherland
in 1833
|-
|Marquess Townshend
||31 October 1787||Townshend||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Salisbury
||18 August 1789||Cecil||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Bath
||24 August 1789||Thynne||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Abercorn||15 October 1790||Hamilton||extant||created Duke of Abercorn
and Marquess of Hamilton
in Ireland
in 1868
|-
|Marquess Cornwallis||8 October 1792||Cornwallis||extinct 9 August 1823||
|-
|Marquess of Hertford
||5 July 1793||Seymour-Conway||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Bute
||21 March 1796||Stuart||extant||
|}
!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
|-
|Marquess of Ormonde||30 August 1642||Butler||extinct 17 December 1758||created Duke of Ormonde in 1661 and Duke of Ormonde in England
in 1682, the English Dukedom being attainted in 1715; title was not used by the third duke 1745-1758
|-
|Marquess of Antrim||26 January 1645||MacDonnell||extinct 3 February 1682||
|-
|Marquess of Clanricarde||21 February 1646||Burke||extinct July 1657||
|-
|Marquess of Catherlough||7 January 1715||Wharton||extinct 31 May 1731||created Marquess of Wharton and Marquess of Malmesbury in Great Britain
later in 1715. Created Duke of Wharton in 1718.
|-
|Marchioness of Dungannon||18 July 1716||Schulenberg||extinct 10 May 1743||subsidiary title of the Duchess of Munster; created Duchess of Kendal
in Great Britain
in 1719; peerage for life only
|-
|Marquess of Kildare||3 March 1761||FitzGerald||extant||created Duke of Leinster
in 1766
|-
|Marquess of Clanricarde||17 August 1789||de Burgh-Canning||extinct 8 December 1797||
|-
|Marquess of Antrim||18 August 1789||MacDonnell||extinct 29 July 1791||
|-
|Marquess of Waterford
||19 August 1789||Beresford||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Downshire
||20 August 1789||Hill||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Donegall
||27 June 1791||Chichester||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Drogheda||5 July 1791||Moore||extinct 29 June 1892||
|-
|Marquess Wellesley||2 December 1799||Wellesley||extinct 26 September 1842||
|-
|Marquess of Headfort
||29 December 1800||Taylour||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Sligo
||29 December 1800||Browne||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Thomond||29 December 1800||O'Brien||extinct 3 July 1855||
|-
|Marquess of Ely
||29 December 1800||Tottenham||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Londonderry
||13 January 1816||Stewart||extant||
|-
|Marquess Conyngham
||22 January 1816||Conyngham||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Ormonde||January 1816||Butler||extinct 10 August 1820||
|-
|Marquess of Westmeath||12 January 1822||Nugent||extinct 5 May 1871||
|-
|Marquess of Ormonde||5 October 1825||Butler||extinct 25 October 1997||
|-
|Marquess of Clanricarde||26 November 1825||de Burgh-Canning||extinct 12 April 1916||
|-
|Marquess of Hamilton
||10 August 1868||Hamilton||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Abercorn
; also Marquess of Abercorn in Great Britain
|}
!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
|-
|Marquess of Exeter
||4 February 1801||Cecil||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Northampton
||7 September 1812||Compton||extant||
|-
|Marquess Camden
||7 September 1812||Pratt||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Wellington||3 October 1812||Wellesley||extant||created Duke of Wellington and Marquess Douro in 1814
|-
|Marquess Douro||11 May 1814||Wellesley||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Wellington; also Marquess of Wellington
|-
|Marquess of Anglesey
||4 July 1815||Paget||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Cholmondeley
||22 November 1815||Cholmondeley||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Hastings
||13 February 1817||Rawdon-Hastings||extinct 10 November 1868||
|-
|Marquess of Ailesbury
||17 July 1821||Brudenell-Bruce||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Chandos||4 February 1822||Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville||extinct 26 March 1889||subsidiary title of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
; also Marquess of Buckingham
|-
|Marquess of Bristol
||30 June 1826||Hervey||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Cleveland||5 October 1827||Vane||extinct 21 August 1891||created Duke of Cleveland
in 1833
|-
|Marquess of Ailsa
||10 September 1831||Kennedy||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Breadalbane||12 September 1831||Campbell||extinct 8 November 1862||
|-
|Marquess of Westminster||13 September 1831||Grosvenor||extant||created Duke of Westminster
in 1874.
|-
|Marquess of Normanby
||25 June 1838||Phipps||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Dalhousie||25 August 1849||Broun-Ramsay||extinct 19 December 1860||
|-
|Marquess of Ripon
||23 June 1871||Robinson||extinct 22 September 1923||
|-
|Marquess of Abergavenny
||14 January 1876||Nevill||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Breadalbane||11 July 1885||Campbell||extinct 19 October 1922||
|-
|Marquess of Dufferin and Ava||17 November 1888||Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood||extinct 29 May 1988||
|-
|Marquess of Macduff||29 July 1889||Duff||extinct 29 January 1912||subsidiary title of the Duke of Fife
(1889 creation); also Duke of Fife
from 1900
|-
|Marquess of Zetland
||22 August 1892||Dundas||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Linlithgow
||27 October 1902||Hope||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Crewe
||3 July 1911||Crewe-Milnes||extinct 20 June 1945||
|-
|Marquess of Lincolnshire||26 February 1912||Wynn-Carrington||extinct 13 June 1928||
|-
|Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
||4 January 1916||Hamilton-Gordon, later Gordon||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Cambridge||16 July 1917||Cambridge||extinct 16 April 1981||
|-
|Marquess of Milford Haven
||17 July 1917||Mountbatten||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Carisbrooke
||18 July 1917||Mountbatten||extinct 23 February 1960||
|-
|Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
||28 June 1921||Curzon||extinct 20 March 1925||
|-
|Marquess of Reading
||7 May 1926||Isaacs, later Rufus Isaacs||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Willingdon
||26 May 1936||Freeman-Thomas||extinct 19 March 1979||
|}
Marquess
A marquess or marquis is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The term is also used to translate equivalent oriental styles, as in imperial China, Japan, and Vietnam...
ates, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerage
Peerage
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s of England
Peerage of England
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, Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
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, Great Britain
Peerage of Great Britain
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, Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
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and the United Kingdom
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.
Marquessates in the Peerage of England, 1385–1707
{|class="wikitable"!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
|-
|Marquess of Dublin||1 December 1385||Vere||resigned 13 October 1386|| created Duke of Ireland
Duke of Ireland
The title of Duke of Ireland was created in 1386 for Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, the favourite of King Richard II of England, who had previously been created Marquess of Dublin. Both titles were Life peerages. At this time, only the Pale of Ireland was under English rule...
in 1386. Might be considered an Irish peerage.
|-
|Marquess of Dorset
Marquess of Dorset
The title Marquess of Dorset has been created three times in the Peerage of England. It was first created in 1397 for John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, but he lost the title two years later. It was then created in 1442 for Edmund Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset, who was created Duke of Somerset...
||29 September 1397||Beaufort||deprived 6 October 1399||also Marquess of Somerset
|-
|Marquess of Somerset||29 September 1397|| Beaufort||deprived 6 October 1399||also Marquess of Dorset
Marquess of Dorset
The title Marquess of Dorset has been created three times in the Peerage of England. It was first created in 1397 for John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, but he lost the title two years later. It was then created in 1442 for Edmund Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset, who was created Duke of Somerset...
|-
|Marquess of Dorset
Marquess of Dorset
The title Marquess of Dorset has been created three times in the Peerage of England. It was first created in 1397 for John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, but he lost the title two years later. It was then created in 1442 for Edmund Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset, who was created Duke of Somerset...
||24 June 1442||Beaufort||forfeit 3 April 1464||created Duke of Somerset
Duke of Somerset
Duke of Somerset is a title in the peerage of England that has been created several times. Derived from Somerset, it is particularly associated with two families; the Beauforts who held the title from the creation of 1448 and the Seymours, from the creation of 1547 and in whose name the title is...
in 1448; also forfeit 1461-1463
|-
|Marquess of Suffolk||14 September 1444||de la Pole||surrendered title 26 February 1493||created Duke of Suffolk
Duke of Suffolk
Duke of Suffolk is a title that has been created three times in British history, all three times in the Peerage of England.The third creation of the dukedom of Suffolk was for Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, in 1551. The duke also held the title Baron Ferrers of Groby...
in 1448
|-
|Marquess of Montagu
Marquess of Montagu
The title of Marquess of Montagu was created in 1470 for John Neville, 1st Earl of Northumberland, younger brother of Warwick the Kingmaker. Montagu was killed at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, and was attainted and the peerage forfeit....
||25 March 1470||Nevill||forfeit 14 April 1471||
|-
|Marquess of Dorset
Marquess of Dorset
The title Marquess of Dorset has been created three times in the Peerage of England. It was first created in 1397 for John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, but he lost the title two years later. It was then created in 1442 for Edmund Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset, who was created Duke of Somerset...
||18 April 1475||Grey||forfeit 23 February 1554||forfeit between 1483 and 1485; created Duke of Suffolk
Duke of Suffolk
Duke of Suffolk is a title that has been created three times in British history, all three times in the Peerage of England.The third creation of the dukedom of Suffolk was for Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, in 1551. The duke also held the title Baron Ferrers of Groby...
in 1551.
|-
|Marquess of Berkeley||28 January 1489||Berkeley||extinct 14 February 1492||
|-
|Marquess of Exeter
Marquess of Exeter
Marquess of Exeter is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1525 for Henry Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon...
||18 June 1525||Courtenay||forfeit 9 January 1539||
|-
|Marquess of Pembroke
Marquess of Pembroke
Marquess of Pembroke was a title in the Peerage of England created by King Henry VIII of England for his mistress and future spouse, Anne Boleyn. It was the first hereditary peerage title granted to a woman.- Background :...
||1 September 1532||Boleyn||forfeit 19 May 1536||holder
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...
was also queen consort from 1533 to 1536
|-
|Marquess of Northampton
Marquess of Northampton
Marquess of Northampton is a title that has been created twice.-William Parr:First creation, 1547–1571The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1547 in favour of William Parr, brother of Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII. The title was forfeited...
||16 February 1547|| Parr|| extinct 28 October 1571||forfeit 1554–13 January 1559
|-
|Marquess of Winchester
Marquess of Winchester
Marquess of Winchester is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1551 for the prominent statesman William Paulet, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. He had already been created Baron St John in 1539 and Earl of Wiltshire in 1550, also in the Peerage of England...
||11 October 1551||Paulet||extant||created Duke of Bolton in 1689, that title extinct 1794
|-
|Marquess of Buckingham||1 January 1618||Villiers||extinct 16 April 1687||created Duke of Buckingham
Duke of Buckingham
The titles Marquess and Duke of Buckingham, referring to Buckingham, have been created several times in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. There have also been Earls of Buckingham.-1444 creation:...
in 1623
|-
|Marquess of Hertford
Marquess of Hertford
The titles of Earl of Hertford and Marquess of Hertford have been created several times in the peerages of England and Great Britain.The third Earldom of Hertford was created in 1559 for Edward Seymour, who was simultaneously created Baron Beauchamp of Hache...
||3 June 1641||Seymour||extinct 29 April 1675||restored to Dukedom of Somerset
Duke of Somerset
Duke of Somerset is a title in the peerage of England that has been created several times. Derived from Somerset, it is particularly associated with two families; the Beauforts who held the title from the creation of 1448 and the Seymours, from the creation of 1547 and in whose name the title is...
in 1660
|-
|Marquess of Worcester||2 March 1643||Somerset||extant||created Duke of Beaufort
Duke of Beaufort
Duke of Beaufort is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the...
in 1682
|-
|Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne||27 October 1643||Cavendish||extinct 26 July 1691||created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Duke of Newcastle
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a title which has been created three times in British history while the title of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne has been created once. The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1664 when William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
in 1665
|-
|Marquess of Dorchester||25 March 1645||Pierrepont||extinct 8 December 1680||
|-
|Marquess of Halifax
Marquess of Halifax
The title Marquess of Halifax was created in the Peerage of England in 1682 for the 1st Earl of Halifax.The 1st Marquess had previously been created Baron Savile, of Eland in the County of York, and Viscount Halifax in 1668 and Earl of Halifax in 1679, all also in the Peerage of England...
||17 August 1682||Saville||extinct 31 August 1700||
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|Marquess of Powis
Marquess of Powis
Marquess of Powis was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1687 for William Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis. He had already succeeded his father as third Baron Powis in 1667 and had been created Earl of Powis in the Peerage of England in 1674; Marquess of Powis and Viscount Montgomery in...
||24 March 1687||Herbert||extinct 8 March 1748||
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|Marquess of Carmarthen||9 April 1689||Osborne||extinct 20 March 1964||created Duke of Leeds
Duke of Leeds
Duke of Leeds was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1694 for the prominent statesman Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen...
in 1694
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|Marquess of Harwich||10 April 1689||Schomberg||extinct 5 July 1719||subsidiary title of the Duke of Schomberg
Duke of Schomberg
Duke of Schomberg in the Peerage of England was created in 1689. The title derives from the surname of its holder .-Dukes of Schomberg :*Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg , military commander in the Williamite War in Ireland*Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg , younger son of the 1st...
; also Duke of Leinster
Duke of Leinster
Duke of Leinster is a title in the Peerage of Ireland and the premier dukedom in that peerage. The title refers to Leinster, but unlike the province the title is pronounced "Lin-ster"...
in Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...
from 1693
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|Marquess of Alton||30 April 1694||Talbot||extinct 1 February 1718||subsidiary title of the Duke of Shrewsbury
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|Marquess of Normanby
Marquess of Normanby
Marquess of Normanby is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The first creation came in 1694 in the Peerage of England in favour of John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave KG...
||10 May 1694||Sheffield||extinct 30 October 1735||created Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was a title in the Peerage of England. The full title was Duke of the County of Buckingham and of Normanby but in practice only Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was used....
in 1703
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|Marquess of Tavistock||11 May 1694||Russell|| extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Bedford
Duke of Bedford
thumb|right|240px|William Russell, 1st Duke of BedfordDuke of Bedford is a title that has been created five times in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1414 in favour of Henry IV's third son, John, who later served as regent of France. He was made Earl of Kendal at the same time...
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|Marquess of Hartington||12 May 1694||Cavendish||extant||subisidary title of the Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Devonshire is a title in the peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family. This branch of the Cavendish family has been one of the richest and most influential aristocratic families in England since the 16th century, and have been rivalled in political influence perhaps only...
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|Marquess of Clare||14 May 1694||Holles||extinct 15 July 1711||subsidiary title of the Duke of Newcastle
Duke of Newcastle
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a title which has been created three times in British history while the title of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne has been created once. The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1664 when William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
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|Marquess of Blandford||14 December 1702||Churchill||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Marlborough
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|Marquess of Granby||29 March 1703||Manners||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Rutland
Duke of Rutland
Earl of Rutland and Duke of Rutland are titles in the peerage of England, derived from Rutland, a county in the East Midlands of England. The Earl of Rutland was elevated to the status of Duke in 1703 and the titles were merged....
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|Marquess of Monthermer||14 April 1705||Montagu||extinct 1749||subsidiary title of the Duke of Montagu
Duke of Montagu
The title of Duke of Montagu has been created several times. It was first created in the Peerage of England in 1705 for Ralph Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Boughton, with the subsidiary title Marquess of Monthermer, but became extinct in 1749. The first Duke had been created Earl of Montagu and...
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|Marquess of Cambridge||9 November 1706||Guelph||merged in crown 11 June 1727||subsidiary title of the Duke of Cambridge
Duke of Cambridge
Duke of Cambridge is a title which has been conferred upon members of the British royal family several times. It was first used as a designation for Charles Stuart , the eldest son of James, Duke of York , though he was never formally created Duke of Cambridge...
; also Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
, Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Cornwall
The Duchy of Cornwall was the first duchy created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is The Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch .-History:...
, and Duke of Rothesay
Duke of Rothesay
Duke of Rothesay was a title of the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707, of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and now of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....
from 1714
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|Marquess of Kent||14 November 1706||Grey||extinct 5 June 1740||created Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent is a title which has been created various times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of George V.-Pre-history:...
in 1710; created Marquess Grey in 1740
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|Marquess of Lindsey||21 December 1706||Bertie||extinct 8 February 1809||created Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven in 1715
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|Marquess of Dorchester||23 December 1706||Pierrepont||extinct 23 September 1773|| created Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
The title Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1715 for the 1st Marquess of Dorchester of the second creation, and became extinct on the death of the 2nd Duke in 1773....
in 1715
Marquessates in the Peerage of Scotland, 1488–1707
{|class="wikitable"!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
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|Marquess of Ormonde
Earl of Ormonde (Scottish)
The title Earl of Ormond was twice created in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for members of the Douglas family. The first creation was in 1445 for a brother of the 8th and 9th Earls of Douglas...
||28 January 1488||Stewart||extinct 17 January 1504||subsidiary title of the Duke of Ross
Duke of Ross
The title Duke of Ross has been created twice in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for younger sons of the King of Scotland. Named for Ross in Scotland, it was first created in 1488 for James Stewart, Earl of Ross, the second son of James III. On his early death in 1504, the title became...
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|Marquess of Fife|| 12 May 1567||Hepburn||forfeit 29 December 1567||subsidiary title of the Duke of Orkney
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|Marquess of Hamilton
Marquess of Hamilton
The title of Marquess of Hamilton has been created twice in British history.*For the creation of 1599, see Duke of Hamilton*For the creation of 1868, see Duke of Abercorn...
||17 April 1599||Hamilton||extinct 12 September 1651||created Duke of Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that Peerage , and as such its holder is the Premier Peer of Scotland, as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas...
and Marquess of Clydesdale in 1643
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|Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland, and the second-oldest in the British Isles, only the English marquessate of Winchester being older...
||17 April 1599||Gordon||extant||created Duke of Gordon
Duke of Gordon
The title Duke of Gordon has been created once in the Peerage of Scotland and again in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The Dukedom, named after the Clan Gordon, was first created for the 4th Marquess of Huntly, who on 3 November 1684 was created Duke of Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, Earl of Huntly...
and Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland, and the second-oldest in the British Isles, only the English marquessate of Winchester being older...
in 1684, those titles extinct in 1836
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|Marquess of Ormonde
Earl of Ormonde (Scottish)
The title Earl of Ormond was twice created in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for members of the Douglas family. The first creation was in 1445 for a brother of the 8th and 9th Earls of Douglas...
||23 December 1600||Stewart||merged in crown 27 March 1625||subsidiary title of the Duke of Albany
Duke of Albany
Duke of Albany is a peerage title that has occasionally been bestowed on the younger sons in the Scottish, and later the British, royal family, particularly in the Houses of Stuart and Hanover....
; created Duke of York
Duke of York
The Duke of York is a title of nobility in the British peerage. Since the 15th century, it has, when granted, usually been given to the second son of the British monarch. The title has been created a remarkable eleven times, eight as "Duke of York" and three as the double-barreled "Duke of York and...
in England
Peerage of England
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain....
in 1605; also Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
, Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Cornwall
The Duchy of Cornwall was the first duchy created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is The Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch .-History:...
, and Duke of Rothesay
Duke of Rothesay
Duke of Rothesay was a title of the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707, of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and now of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....
from 1612
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|Marquess of Wigtown||1602||Stewart||extinct 1602||subsidiary title of the Duke of Kintyre and Lorne
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|Marquess of Douglas||14 June 1633||Douglas||extant||created Duke of Douglas and Marquess of Angus and Abernethy in 1703, that title extinct in 1761; also Duke of Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that Peerage , and as such its holder is the Premier Peer of Scotland, as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas...
, Duke of Brandon, Marquess of Hamilton
Marquess of Hamilton
The title of Marquess of Hamilton has been created twice in British history.*For the creation of 1599, see Duke of Hamilton*For the creation of 1868, see Duke of Abercorn...
, and Marquess of Clydesdale from 1761
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|Marquess of Argyll||15 November 1641||Campbell||forfeit 27 May 1661||
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|Marquess of Clydesdale||12 April 1643||Hamilton||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that Peerage , and as such its holder is the Premier Peer of Scotland, as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas...
; also Marquess of Hamilton
Marquess of Hamilton
The title of Marquess of Hamilton has been created twice in British history.*For the creation of 1599, see Duke of Hamilton*For the creation of 1868, see Duke of Abercorn...
; created Duke of Brandon in 1711; also Marquess of Douglas from 1761
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|Marquess of Montrose||6 May 1644||Graham||extant||created Duke of Montrose
Duke of Montrose
The title of Duke of Montrose was created twice in the peerage of Scotland, firstly in 1488 for David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford. It was forfeited and then returned, but only for the period of the holder's lifetime...
and Marquess of Graham and Buchanan in 1707
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|Marquess of March||1 May 1672||Maitland||extinct 24 August 1682||subsidiary title of the Duke of Lauderdale
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|Marquess of Atholl||17 February 1676||Murray||extant||created Duke of Atholl
Duke of Atholl
Duke of Atholl, alternatively Duke of Athole, named after Atholl in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland held by the head of Clan Murray...
and Marquess of Tullibardine in 1703
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|Marquess of Bambreich|| 29 May 1680||Leslie||extinct 27 July 1681||subsidiary title of the Duke of Rothes
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|Marquess of Queensberry
Marquess of Queensberry
Marquess of Queensberry is a title in the peerage of Scotland. The title has been held since its creation in 1682 by a member of the Douglas family...
||11 February 1682||Douglas||extant||created Duke of Queensberry
Duke of Queensberry
The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry...
and Marquess of Dumfriesshire in 1684. The titles were separated from 1711-1715 and again after 1810
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|Marquess of Dumfriesshire|| 3 November 1684|| Douglas||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Queensberry
Duke of Queensberry
The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry...
; also Marquess of Queensbery 1684-1711 and 1715-1810; also Duke of Buccleuch
Duke of Buccleuch
The title Duke of Buccleuch , formerly also spelt Duke of Buccleugh, was created in the Peerage of Scotland on 20 April 1663 for the Duke of Monmouth, who was the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II of Scotland, England, and Ireland and who had married Anne Scott, 4th Countess of Buccleuch.Anne...
from 1810
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|Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland, and the second-oldest in the British Isles, only the English marquessate of Winchester being older...
||3 November 1684||Gordon||extinct 28 May 1836||subsidiary title of the Duke of Gordon
Duke of Gordon
The title Duke of Gordon has been created once in the Peerage of Scotland and again in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The Dukedom, named after the Clan Gordon, was first created for the 4th Marquess of Huntly, who on 3 November 1684 was created Duke of Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, Earl of Huntly...
; also Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly
Marquess of Huntly is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing marquessate in Scotland, and the second-oldest in the British Isles, only the English marquessate of Winchester being older...
of the 1599 creation
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|Marquess of Tweeddale
Marquess of Tweeddale
Marquess of Tweeddale is a title of the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1694 for the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale. Lord Tweeddale holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Tweeddale , Earl of Gifford , Viscount of Walden , Lord Hay of Yester , and Baron Tweeddale, of Yester in the County of Haddington...
||17 December 1694||Hay||extant||
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|Marquess of Kintyre and Lorne|| 23 June 1701||Campbell||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Argyll
Duke of Argyll
Duke of Argyll is a title, created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1701 and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1892. The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, noble family in Scotland...
; created Duke of Greenwich in Great Britain
Peerage of Great Britain
The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800...
1719-1743; created Duke of Argyll
Duke of Argyll
Duke of Argyll is a title, created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1701 and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1892. The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, noble family in Scotland...
in the United Kingdom
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
in 1892
|-
|Marquess of Lothian
Marquess of Lothian
Marquess of Lothian is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1701 for Robert Kerr, 4th Earl of Lothian. The Marquess of Lothian holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Lothian , Earl of Lothian , Earl of Ancram , Earl of Ancram , Viscount of Briene , Lord Newbattle ,...
|| 23 June 1701||Kerr||extant||
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|Marquess of Annandale||24 June 1701||Johnston/Johnstone/Vanden Bempde||dormant 29 April 1792||
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|Marquess of Angus and Abernethy||10 April 1703||Douglas||extinct 1761||subsidiary title of the Duke of Douglas
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|Marquess of Tullibardine||30 June 1703||Murray||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Atholl
Duke of Atholl
Duke of Atholl, alternatively Duke of Athole, named after Atholl in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland held by the head of Clan Murray...
; also Marquess of Atholl
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|Marquess of Graham and Buchanan|| 24 April 1707||Graham||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Montrose
Duke of Montrose
The title of Duke of Montrose was created twice in the peerage of Scotland, firstly in 1488 for David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford. It was forfeited and then returned, but only for the period of the holder's lifetime...
; also Marquess of Montrose
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|Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford|| 25 April 1707||Ker||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Roxburghe
Duke of Roxburghe
The Duke of Roxburghe is a title in the peerage of Scotland created in 1707 along with the titles Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford, Earl of Kelso and Viscount Broxmouth. John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe became the first holder of these titles...
Marquessates in the Peerage of Great Britain, 1707–1801
{|class="wikitable"!Title!!Date of creation!!Surname!!Current status!!Notes
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|Marquess of Beverley||26 May 1708||Douglas||extinct 22 October 1778||subsidiary title of the Duke of Dover, who was also Duke of Queensberry
Duke of Queensberry
The title Duke of Queensberry was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1684 along with the subsidiary title Marquess of Dumfriesshire for the 1st Marquess of Queensberry...
and Marquess of Dumfriesshire in the Peerage of Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
; also Marquess of Queensberry
Marquess of Queensberry
Marquess of Queensberry is a title in the peerage of Scotland. The title has been held since its creation in 1682 by a member of the Douglas family...
1708-1711 and 1715-1778
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|Marquess of Wharton||15 February 1715||Wharton||extinct 31 May 1731||also Marquess of Malmesbury and Marquess of Catherlough in Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...
; created Duke of Wharton in 1718
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|Marquess of Malmesbury||15 February 1715||Wharton||extinct 31 May 1731||also Marquess of Wharton and Marquess of Catherlough in Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...
; created Duke of Wharton in 1718
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|Marquess of Clare||11 August 1715||Pelham-Holles||extinct 1768||subsidiary title of the Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Duke of Newcastle
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a title which has been created three times in British history while the title of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne has been created once. The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1664 when William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
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|Marquess of Titchfield||6 July 1716||Bentinck||extinct 30 July 1990||subsidiary title of the Duke of Portland
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|Marquess of Carnarvon||29 April 1719||Brydges||extinct 29 September 1789||subsidiary title of the Duke of Chandos
Duke of Chandos
The title Baron Chandos has been created twice in the Peerage of England. It was first created in 1337 when Roger de Chandos was summoned to parliament. It became extinct on his death....
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|Marquess of Brackley||18 June 1720||Egerton||extinct 8 March 1803||subsidiary title of the Duke of Bridgewater
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|Marquess of the Isle of Ely||26 July 1726||Guelph||merged in crown 25 October 1760||subsidiary title of the Duke of Edinburgh
Duke of Edinburgh
The Duke of Edinburgh is a British royal title, named after the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, which has been conferred upon members of the British royal family only four times times since its creation in 1726...
; also Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
from 1727; also Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Cornwall
The Duchy of Cornwall was the first duchy created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is The Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch .-History:...
in England
Peerage of England
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain....
and Duke of Rothesay
Duke of Rothesay
Duke of Rothesay was a title of the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707, of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and now of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....
in Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
1727-1751
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|Marquess of Berkhampstead||27 July 1726||Guelph||extinct 31 October 1765||subsidiary title of the Duke of Cumberland
Duke of Cumberland
Duke of Cumberland is a peerage title that was conferred upon junior members of the British Royal Family, named after the county of Cumberland.-History:...
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|Marquess Grey||19 May 1740||Grey||extinct 19 January 1797||also Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent is a title which has been created various times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of George V.-Pre-history:...
and Marquess of Kent, until the duke's death later in 1740, when those titles became extinct; passed by special patent to his granddaughter
|-
|Marquess of Rockingham
Marquess of Rockingham
Marquess of Rockingham was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1746 for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton. The Watson family descended from Lewis Watson, Member of Parliament for Lincoln. He was created a Baronet, of Rockingham Castle in the County of Northampton,...
||19 April 1746||Watson-Wentworth||extinct 2 July 1782||
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|Marquess of Monthermer||5 November 1766||Montagu||extinct 23 May 1790||subsidiary title of the Duke of Montagu
Duke of Montagu
The title of Duke of Montagu has been created several times. It was first created in the Peerage of England in 1705 for Ralph Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Boughton, with the subsidiary title Marquess of Monthermer, but became extinct in 1749. The first Duke had been created Earl of Montagu and...
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|Marquess of Buckingham||4 December 1784||Temple-Nugent-Grenville||extinct 26 March 1889||created Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and Marquess of Chandos in 1822
|-
|Marquess of Lansdowne
Marquess of Lansdowne
Marquess of Lansdowne, in the County of Somerset, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain held by the head of the Petty-Fitzmaurice family. This branch of the family descends from the Hon...
||6 December 1784||Petty-Fitzmaurice||extant||
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|Marquess of Stafford||1 March 1786||Leveson-Gower||extant||created Duke of Sutherland
Duke of Sutherland
Duke of Sutherland, derived from Sutherland in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom held by the head of the Leveson-Gower family. It was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford...
in 1833
|-
|Marquess Townshend
Marquess Townshend
Marquess Townshend is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain held by the Townshend family of Raynham Hall in Norfolk. This family descends from Roger Townshend, who in 1617 was created a Baronet, of Raynham in the County of Norfolk, in the Baronetage of England. He later represented Orford and...
||31 October 1787||Townshend||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Salisbury
Marquess of Salisbury
Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury. Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries, particularly the 3rd Marquess, who served three times as Prime Minister...
||18 August 1789||Cecil||extant||
|-
|Marquess of Bath
Marquess of Bath
Marquess of Bath is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1789 for Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth. The Thynne family descends from the soldier and courtier Sir John Thynne , who constructed Longleat House between 1567 and 1579...
||24 August 1789||Thynne||extant||
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|Marquess of Abercorn||15 October 1790||Hamilton||extant||created Duke of Abercorn
Duke of Abercorn
The title Duke of Abercorn was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1868 and bestowed upon James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn.This article also covers the Earls and Marquesses of Abercorn, all named after Abercorn, West Lothian, in Scotland.-History:...
and Marquess of Hamilton
Duke of Abercorn
The title Duke of Abercorn was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1868 and bestowed upon James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn.This article also covers the Earls and Marquesses of Abercorn, all named after Abercorn, West Lothian, in Scotland.-History:...
in Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those titles of nobility created by the English and later British monarchs of Ireland in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl,...
in 1868
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|Marquess Cornwallis||8 October 1792||Cornwallis||extinct 9 August 1823||
|-
|Marquess of Hertford
Marquess of Hertford
The titles of Earl of Hertford and Marquess of Hertford have been created several times in the peerages of England and Great Britain.The third Earldom of Hertford was created in 1559 for Edward Seymour, who was simultaneously created Baron Beauchamp of Hache...
||5 July 1793||Seymour-Conway||extant||
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|Marquess of Bute
Marquess of Bute
Marquess of the County of Bute, shortened in general usage to Marquess of Bute, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute.-Family history:...
||21 March 1796||Stuart||extant||
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Marquessates in the Peerage of Ireland, 1642–1825
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|Marquess of Ormonde||30 August 1642||Butler||extinct 17 December 1758||created Duke of Ormonde in 1661 and Duke of Ormonde in England
Peerage of England
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain....
in 1682, the English Dukedom being attainted in 1715; title was not used by the third duke 1745-1758
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|Marquess of Antrim||26 January 1645||MacDonnell||extinct 3 February 1682||
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|Marquess of Clanricarde||21 February 1646||Burke||extinct July 1657||
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|Marquess of Catherlough||7 January 1715||Wharton||extinct 31 May 1731||created Marquess of Wharton and Marquess of Malmesbury in Great Britain
Peerage of Great Britain
The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800...
later in 1715. Created Duke of Wharton in 1718.
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|Marchioness of Dungannon||18 July 1716||Schulenberg||extinct 10 May 1743||subsidiary title of the Duchess of Munster; created Duchess of Kendal
Duke of Kendal
The titles of Earl of Kendal and Duke of Kendal have been created several times, usually for people with some connection to the royal family....
in Great Britain
Peerage of Great Britain
The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800...
in 1719; peerage for life only
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|Marquess of Kildare||3 March 1761||FitzGerald||extant||created Duke of Leinster
Duke of Leinster
Duke of Leinster is a title in the Peerage of Ireland and the premier dukedom in that peerage. The title refers to Leinster, but unlike the province the title is pronounced "Lin-ster"...
in 1766
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|Marquess of Clanricarde||17 August 1789||de Burgh-Canning||extinct 8 December 1797||
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|Marquess of Antrim||18 August 1789||MacDonnell||extinct 29 July 1791||
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|Marquess of Waterford
Marquess of Waterford
Marquess of Waterford is a title in the Peerage of Ireland and the premier marquessate in that peerage. It was created in 1789 for George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone.-Family history:...
||19 August 1789||Beresford||extant||
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|Marquess of Downshire
Marquess of Downshire
Marquess of Downshire is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1789 for Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, a former Secretary of State....
||20 August 1789||Hill||extant||
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|Marquess of Donegall
Marquess of Donegall
Marquess of Donegall is a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the head of the Chichester family, originally from Devon, England. Sir John Chichester sat as a Member of Parliament and was High Sheriff of Devon in 1557. One of his sons, Sir Arthur Chichester, was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1604...
||27 June 1791||Chichester||extant||
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|Marquess of Drogheda||5 July 1791||Moore||extinct 29 June 1892||
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|Marquess Wellesley||2 December 1799||Wellesley||extinct 26 September 1842||
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|Marquess of Headfort
Marquess of Headfort
Marquess of Headfort is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Thomas Taylor, 2nd Earl of Bective. Despite the official title, the family unfailingly use the alternative rendering Marquis of Headfort, and this is the spelling more commonly encountered in references to family...
||29 December 1800||Taylour||extant||
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|Marquess of Sligo
Marquess of Sligo
Marquess of Sligo is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for John Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont. The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Mount Eagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo , Viscount Westport, of Westport in the County of Mayo , Earl of Altamont, in the...
||29 December 1800||Browne||extant||
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|Marquess of Thomond||29 December 1800||O'Brien||extinct 3 July 1855||
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|Marquess of Ely
Marquess of Ely
Marquess of Ely, of the County of Wexford, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Charles Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely. He was born Charles Tottenham, the son of John Tottenham, who had been created a Baronet, of Tottenham Green in the County of Wexford, in the Baronetage of...
||29 December 1800||Tottenham||extant||
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|Marquess of Londonderry
Marquess of Londonderry
Marquess of Londonderry is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1816 for Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry. He had earlier represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons. Stewart had already been created Baron Londonderry in 1789, Viscount Castlereagh in 1795 and Earl...
||13 January 1816||Stewart||extant||
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|Marquess Conyngham
Marquess Conyngham
Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1816 for Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham. He was the great-nephew of another Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham, the member of a family of Scottish descent which had settled in County Donegal...
||22 January 1816||Conyngham||extant||
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|Marquess of Ormonde||January 1816||Butler||extinct 10 August 1820||
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|Marquess of Westmeath||12 January 1822||Nugent||extinct 5 May 1871||
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|Marquess of Ormonde||5 October 1825||Butler||extinct 25 October 1997||
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|Marquess of Clanricarde||26 November 1825||de Burgh-Canning||extinct 12 April 1916||
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|Marquess of Hamilton
Marquess of Hamilton
The title of Marquess of Hamilton has been created twice in British history.*For the creation of 1599, see Duke of Hamilton*For the creation of 1868, see Duke of Abercorn...
||10 August 1868||Hamilton||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Abercorn
Duke of Abercorn
The title Duke of Abercorn was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1868 and bestowed upon James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn.This article also covers the Earls and Marquesses of Abercorn, all named after Abercorn, West Lothian, in Scotland.-History:...
; also Marquess of Abercorn in Great Britain
Peerage of Great Britain
The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Act of Union 1707 but before the Act of Union 1800...
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Marquessates in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, 1801–present
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|Marquess of Exeter
Marquess of Exeter
Marquess of Exeter is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1525 for Henry Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon...
||4 February 1801||Cecil||extant||
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|Marquess of Northampton
Marquess of Northampton
Marquess of Northampton is a title that has been created twice.-William Parr:First creation, 1547–1571The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1547 in favour of William Parr, brother of Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII. The title was forfeited...
||7 September 1812||Compton||extant||
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|Marquess Camden
Marquess Camden
Marquess Camden is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1812 for the politician John Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden. The Pratt family descends from Sir John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice from 1718 to 1725. His third son from his second marriage, Sir Charles Pratt, was also a...
||7 September 1812||Pratt||extant||
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|Marquess of Wellington||3 October 1812||Wellesley||extant||created Duke of Wellington and Marquess Douro in 1814
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|Marquess Douro||11 May 1814||Wellesley||extant||subsidiary title of the Duke of Wellington; also Marquess of Wellington
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|Marquess of Anglesey
Marquess of Anglesey
Marquess of Anglesey is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, a hero of the Battle of Waterloo...
||4 July 1815||Paget||extant||
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|Marquess of Cholmondeley
Marquess of Cholmondeley
Marquess of Cholmondeley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley. Each Marquess of Cholmondeley is a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain....
||22 November 1815||Cholmondeley||extant||
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|Marquess of Hastings
Marquess of Hastings
Marquess of Hastings was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 December 1816 for Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. The Rawdon family descended from Francis Rawdon , of Rawdon, Yorkshire. His son George Rawdon settled in the village of Moira in Downshire, and...
||13 February 1817||Rawdon-Hastings||extinct 10 November 1868||
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|Marquess of Ailesbury
Marquess of Ailesbury
Marquess of Ailesbury is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1821 for Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury....
||17 July 1821||Brudenell-Bruce||extant||
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|Marquess of Chandos||4 February 1822||Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville||extinct 26 March 1889||subsidiary title of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Duke of Buckingham
The titles Marquess and Duke of Buckingham, referring to Buckingham, have been created several times in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. There have also been Earls of Buckingham.-1444 creation:...
; also Marquess of Buckingham
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|Marquess of Bristol
Marquess of Bristol
Marquess of Bristol is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom held by the Hervey family since 1826. The Marquess's subsidiary titles are: Earl of Bristol , Earl Jermyn, of Horningsheath in the County of Suffolk , and Baron Hervey, of Ickworth in the County of Suffolk...
||30 June 1826||Hervey||extant||
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|Marquess of Cleveland||5 October 1827||Vane||extinct 21 August 1891||created Duke of Cleveland
Duke of Cleveland
Duke of Cleveland is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The dukedoms were named after Cleveland in northern England....
in 1833
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|Marquess of Ailsa
Marquess of Ailsa
Marquess of Ailsa, of the Isle of Ailsa in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 September 1831 for Archibald Kennedy, 12th Earl of Cassillis. The title Earl of Cassillis had been created in 1509 for the 3rd Lord Kennedy. This title had been...
||10 September 1831||Kennedy||extant||
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|Marquess of Breadalbane||12 September 1831||Campbell||extinct 8 November 1862||
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|Marquess of Westminster||13 September 1831||Grosvenor||extant||created Duke of Westminster
Duke of Westminster
The title Duke of Westminster was created by Queen Victoria in 1874 and bestowed upon Hugh Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster. The current holder of the title is Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster....
in 1874.
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|Marquess of Normanby
Marquess of Normanby
Marquess of Normanby is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The first creation came in 1694 in the Peerage of England in favour of John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave KG...
||25 June 1838||Phipps||extant||
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|Marquess of Dalhousie||25 August 1849||Broun-Ramsay||extinct 19 December 1860||
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|Marquess of Ripon
Marquess of Ripon
Marquess of Ripon was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1870 for the Liberal politician George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon. The Robinson family descended from William Robinson , a wealthy York merchant, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament for York...
||23 June 1871||Robinson||extinct 22 September 1923||
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|Marquess of Abergavenny
Marquess of Abergavenny
Marquess of Abergavenny , in the County of Monmouth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 14 January 1876, along with the title Earl of Lewes , in the County of Sussex, for the 5th Earl of Abergavenny, a member of the Nevill family.The 1st Marquess's ancestor, the de...
||14 January 1876||Nevill||extant||
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|Marquess of Breadalbane||11 July 1885||Campbell||extinct 19 October 1922||
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|Marquess of Dufferin and Ava||17 November 1888||Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood||extinct 29 May 1988||
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|Marquess of Macduff||29 July 1889||Duff||extinct 29 January 1912||subsidiary title of the Duke of Fife
Duke of Fife
Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, named after Fife in Scotland. There have been two creations of the title, the first in 1889 and the second in 1900, both in favour of Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland and 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the...
(1889 creation); also Duke of Fife
Duke of Fife
Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, named after Fife in Scotland. There have been two creations of the title, the first in 1889 and the second in 1900, both in favour of Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland and 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the...
from 1900
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|Marquess of Zetland
Marquess of Zetland
Marquess of Zetland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 August 1892 for the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Earl of Zetland. Zetland is an archaic spelling of Shetland. The Dundas family descends from the wealthy Scottish businessman and...
||22 August 1892||Dundas||extant||
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|Marquess of Linlithgow
Marquess of Linlithgow
Marquess of Linlithgow, in the County of Linlithgow or West Lothian, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1902 for John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun....
||27 October 1902||Hope||extant||
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|Marquess of Crewe
Marquess of Crewe
Marquess of Crewe was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Liberal statesman Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe. He had already been created Earl of Crewe, of Crewe in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1895 and was made Earl of Madeley, in the County of...
||3 July 1911||Crewe-Milnes||extinct 20 June 1945||
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|Marquess of Lincolnshire||26 February 1912||Wynn-Carrington||extinct 13 June 1928||
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|Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, in the County of Aberdeen, in the County of Meath and in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 January 1916 for John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen. The Gordon family descends from John Gordon, who fought...
||4 January 1916||Hamilton-Gordon, later Gordon||extant||
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|Marquess of Cambridge||16 July 1917||Cambridge||extinct 16 April 1981||
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|Marquess of Milford Haven
Marquess of Milford Haven
Marquess of Milford Haven is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord, and a relation to the British Royal family, who amidst the anti-German sentiments of the First World War abandoned the use of his German...
||17 July 1917||Mountbatten||extant||
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|Marquess of Carisbrooke
Marquess of Carisbrooke
The title of Marquess of Carisbrooke was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1917 for Prince Alexander of Battenberg, eldest son of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom and Prince Henry of Battenberg...
||18 July 1917||Mountbatten||extinct 23 February 1960||
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|Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
The title Marquess Curzon of Kedleston was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1921 for the Foreign Secretary George Nathaniel Curzon, the then 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston. The title became extinct upon his death four years later....
||28 June 1921||Curzon||extinct 20 March 1925||
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|Marquess of Reading
Marquess of Reading
Marquess of Reading is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1926 for Rufus Isaacs, 1st Earl of Reading, the former Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales...
||7 May 1926||Isaacs, later Rufus Isaacs||extant||
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|Marquess of Willingdon
Marquess of Willingdon
Marquess of Willingdon was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 26 May 1936 for the Liberal politician and colonial governor Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon. He was Governor-General of Canada from 1926 to 1931 and Viceroy of India from 1931 to 1936...
||26 May 1936||Freeman-Thomas||extinct 19 March 1979||
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