Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
20Records
1876–1987Date range
15Named people
10Places
Chronological records
1876
Benjamin Disraeli Beaconsfield1876
Government / Conservative Party Government
Victoria makes Disraeli the Earl of Beaconsfield for making her Empress of India. Created Earl Beaconsfield
1878
Hardy Cranbrook, 1st1878
Cranboork · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created a Viscount
1885
Edward Gibson Ashbourne, 1st1885
Ashbourne · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Baron Ashbourne, of Ashbourne in the County of Meath
Hardinge Stanley Giffard Halsbury, 1st1885
Halbsbury · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Baron Halsbury, of Halsbury in the County of Devon, and appointed Lord Chancellor, thus forming a remarkable exception to the rule that no criminal lawyer ever reaches the woolsack
1886
Frederick Arthur Stanley Derby, 16th1886
London · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Baron Stanley of Preston
1892
Hardy Cranbrook, 1st1892
Cranboork · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created an Earl of Cranbrook, 1st
1898
Hardinge Stanley Giffard Halsbury, 1st1898
Tiverton · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Earl of Halsbury and Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton in the County of Devon
1900
Goschen Goschen, 1st1900
Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Viscount Goschen
1922
Arthur James Balfour Balfour, 1st1922
Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Earl Balfour
1925
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood Halifax, 3rd1925
London · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Baron Irwin
1928
Hogg Hailsham, 1st1928
Hailsham · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Viscount Hailsham
1934
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood Halifax, 3rd1934
Halifax · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Earl Halifax, 3rd
1937
Stanley Baldwin Bewdley, 1st1937
Bewdley · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Earl of Bewdley, 1st
1950
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home ,14th1950
London · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Earl Douglas-Holme, 14th
1959
Morrison Dunrossil1959
Dunrossil · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Viscount Dunrossil
1963
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home ,14th1963
London · Government / Conservative Party Government
Renounces his peerage in order to sit in the Commons
Hogg Hailsham, 1st1963
Hailsham · Government / Conservative Party Government
Gives up his peerage
1983
Whitelaw1983
London · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Viscount Whitelaw
1984
Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st1984
Stockton · Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Earl of Stockton, 1st
1987
Joseph1987
Government / Conservative Party Government
Created Baron Joseph
Names involved
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home ,14thArthur James Balfour Balfour, 1stBenjamin Disraeli BeaconsfieldEdward Frederick Lindley Wood Halifax, 3rdEdward Gibson Ashbourne, 1stFrederick Arthur Stanley Derby, 16thGoschen Goschen, 1stHardinge Stanley Giffard Halsbury, 1stHardy Cranbrook, 1stHogg Hailsham, 1stJosephMaurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1stMorrison DunrossilStanley Baldwin Bewdley, 1stWhitelaw
Provenance
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