- Britain.
There are five
peerages in the
United Kingdom in total.
English Peeresses obtained their first seats in the
House of
Lords under the
Peerage Act...
- The
Peeresses Act 1441 (20 Hen. 6. c. 9) was an Act of the
Parliament of England. It is
sometimes referred to as the
Peeresses Act 1442 or the
Trial of...
- In the
United Kingdom, life
peers are
appointed members of the
peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in
contrast to
hereditary peers. Life
peers are...
-
established in
Tokyo 1884: Gakushūin
became an
Imperial institution. 1885:
Peeresses'
School was
created 1947: Gakushūin
became a
private institution. The...
- 1963
which allowed suo jure
peeresses to take a seat in the
House of Lords, Lady
Erroll did so, with
eleven other peeresses. On 19
December 1946, at St...
- 450: "...everybody
knows that it is a very
common practice for
peeresses (not
being peeresses in
their own right)
after marrying commoners to
retain the title...
-
granted the
right to
stand as MPs in the
House of Commons.
These were life
peeresses appointed by the
Prime Minister,
although countesses had
appeared in mediaeval...
-
Kathleen is a
female given name, used in English- and Irish-language communities.
Sometimes spelled Cathleen, it is an
Anglicized form of Caitlín, the...
- 1953 to wear a
cheaper "cap of estate" in
place of a coronet, as were
peeresses of the same rank, for whom a
simpler robe was also permitted: a one-piece...
- Look up peer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peer or
peeress may
refer to: Peer, an
equal in age,
education or
social class; see Peer
group Peer,...
