The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility : to which is Added a View of the Baronetage of the Three Kingdoms

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Saunders and Otley, 1832 - Nobility - 490 pages
 

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Page xiv - Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
Page 199 - He was raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore in the East Indies, and of Belmont in Kent, August 11.
Page 2 - Osnaburg, was created Duke of York and Albany in Great Britain, and Earl of Ulster in Ireland.
Page xiv - Bench. Master of the Rolls. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts, according to Seniority.
Page xxi - Spiritual of the same rank in Great Britain, and shall enjoy the same privileges, (except those depending upon sitting in the House of Lords,) and the Temporal Peers of Ireland shall have rank next after the Peers of the like rank in Great Britain at the time of the Union...
Page xiv - Body. Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. Esquires of the Knights of the Bath. Esquires by Creation. Esquires by Office. Younger Sons of Knights of the Garter. Younger Sons of Bannerets. Younger Sons of Knights of the Bath. Younger Sons of Knights Bachelors. Gentlemen entitled to bear Arms. Clergymen, Barristers at Law, Officers in the Navy and Army, who are all Gentlemen, and have their respective precedency in their several Professions.
Page xvi - Bachelors. . Wives of Gentlemen entitled to bear Arms. Daughters of Esquires entitled to bear Arms, who are Gentlewomen by birth. Daughters of Gentlemen entitled to bear Arms, who are Gentlewomen by birth. Wives of Clergymen, Barristers at Law, Officers in the Navy and Army. Wives of Citizens. Wives of Burgesses.
Page xiv - Viscounts' younger Sons. Barons' younger Sons. Baronets of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Bannerets not made by the King in person. Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath. Knights Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George. Knights Commanders of the Bath. Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George. Knights Bachelors. Companions of the Bath.
Page xvi - Sons of the Knights of the Bath. Wives of the younger Sons of Knights Bachelors. Wives of Gentlemen entitled to bear Arms. Daughters of Esquires entitled to bear Arms who are Gentlewomen by Birth. Daughters of Gentlemen entitled to bear Arms, who are Gentlewomen by Birth.
Page 418 - DCL Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER, Prelate of the Order of the Garter, Provincial Sub-Dean of Canterbury, and Visitor of Magdalene, New, Trinity, St. John's, and Corpus, Colleges, Oxford, .Uncle of the Earl of Guilford, FA & LS {FarnhamCastle, and Winchester-House, Chelsea.} w £. 2873 : 18 : '1 1781.

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