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Peerage

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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