Peerage of the United Kingdom

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Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerage

Peerage

The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titles, and individually to refer to a specific title....
s created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
after the Act of Union

Act of Union 1800

The phrase Act of Union 1800 is used to describe two complementary Acts whose official United Kingdom titles are the Union with Ireland Act 1800 , an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Act of Union 1800 ,...
in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of 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....
. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those Peerage created by Monarchy of Ireland in their capacity as Lordship of Ireland or King of Ireland....
until the formation of the Irish Free State

Irish Free State

The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand....
in 1922.

The ranks of the peerage are Duke

Duke

A duke is a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch, and historically controlling a duchy or a dukedom. The title comes from the Latin language Dux Bellorum, which had the sense of "military commander" and was employed by both the Germanic peoples themselves and by the Ancient Rome authors covering them to r...
, Marquess

Marquess

A marquess or marquis is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European monarchies and some of their colonies. The term is also used to render equivalent oriental styles as in imperial China and Japan....
, Earl

Earl

Earl was the Anglo-Saxons form and jarl the Scandinavian form of a title meaning "chieftain" and referring especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead....
, Viscount

Viscount

A 'viscount' is a member of the European nobility whose count title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl or a count ....
, and Baron

Baron

Baron is a specific title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English language beorn meaning "nobleman."...
.

Until the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

The House of Lords Act 1999 was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. It was a major constitutional enactment that Lords Reform greatly one of the chambers of Parliament, the House of Lords....
was passed, all Peers of the United Kingdom were members

Members of the House of Lords

This is a list of members of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom....
of the House of Lords

House of Lords

The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the British monarchy, the British House of Commons , and the Lords....
. However, from that date most of the hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over seven hundred peers who hold titles that may be inheritance. Formerly, most of them were entitled to a seat in House of Lords, but since the House of Lords Act 1999 only ninety-two are permitted to sit, although this reduction has been challenged in the European C...
s were expelled as part of Parliamentary reform.

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