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The Peerage Act 1963 ( 1963 c. 48 ) is the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permitted peeresses in their own right and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and which allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be " disclaimed ".
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In 1801 the Upper House moved into the larger White Chamber, which had formerly housed the Court of Requests ; the expansion of the Peerage by King George III during the 18th century, along with the imminent Act of Union with Ireland, necessitated the move as the original chamber could not accommodate the increased number of peers.
* The Peerage of England — all titles created by the Kings and Queens of England before the Act of Union in 1707.
* The Peerage of Ireland — titles created for the Kingdom of Ireland before the Act of Union of 1801, and some titles created later.
Under the Peerage Act 1963 an individual can disclaim his peerage dignity within one year of inheriting it.
All privilege of peerage is lost if a peer disclaims his or her peerage under the Peerage Act 1963.
While life peerages were often created in the early days of the Peerage, their regular creation was not provided for by Act of Parliament until the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.
* Peerage Act 1963.
Peeresses were granted the right to sit by the Peerage Act 1963.
Elections were abolished by the Peerage Act 1963, and from then until 1999 all Scottish peers and peeresses were entitled to sit.
Lord Hailsham, who was at first Macmillan's preferred successor, announced that he would use the newly-enacted Peerage Act to disclaim his title and fight a by-election and return to the House of Commons.
Benn's campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963.
The Peerage Act 1963, allowing renunciation of peerages, became law shortly after 6 pm on 31 July 1963.
Irish peers possessed of titles in any of the other Peerages ( except Scotland, which only got the right to an automatic seat in 1963, with the Peerage Act 1963 ) had automatic seats in the House of Lords until 1999.
The Act only applies to titles held in the Peerage of England, the Peerage of Scotland, the Peerage of Great Britain, or the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
No provision was made by the Act for titles in the Peerage of Ireland to be disclaimed, as the entitlement of new Irish representative peers to be elected to sit in the House of Lords was considered to have lapsed after most of Ireland had become independent in 1922 ( and the last surviving Irish representative peer had died in 1961 ).
The Act also granted suo jure hereditary peeresses ( other than those in the Peerage of Ireland ) the right to sit in the House of Lords, which introduced twelve new women to the House.
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In 1963, the Conservative Government agreed to introduce the Peerage Bill allowing individuals to disclaim peerages.
Through the Peerage Act 1963 all hereditary Scottish peers gained the right to sit in the House of Lords.
He disclaimed the peerage in 1963 on the day the Peerage Act 1963 passed into law and made it possible for him to do so.
The Peerage Act 1963 allowed all Scottish Peers to sit in the House of Lords, a right which was lost along with all other hereditary peers after the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Between 1839 and 1963 the Dukes also held the titles of Lord Strathnaver and Earl of Sutherland, both in the Peerage of Scotland.
Before the passing of the Peerage Act 1963, which granted all Scottish peers a seat in the House of Lords, the Marquesses of Huntly sat in the House of Lords in virtue of their junior title of Baron Meldrum, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
In 1963 he disclaimed his peerages under the Peerage Act 1963, so that he could be elected to the House of Commons.
As Baron Tweeddale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Lord Tweeddale sat between 1881 and 1963 in the House of Lords.
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* James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Abercorn ( c. 1604 – c. 1670 ), created Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane in the Peerage of Ireland in his father's lifetime.
Thomas Manners ( c. 1488 – 1543 ), son of the 12th Baron de Ros of Hamlake, Truibut and Belvoir, was created Earl of Rutland in the Peerage of England in 1525.
The judge Sir Edward Montagu's ( c. 1485 – 1557 ) grandson, Sir Henry Montagu ( c. 1563 – 1642 ), who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench as well as Lord High Treasurer of England and Lord Privy Seal, was in 1620 raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, of Kimbolton in the County of Huntingdon, and as Viscount Mandeville.
* James Drummond, 1st Duke of Perth ( c. 1649 – 1716 ) 4th Earl of Perth, created Duke of Perth in the Jacobite Peerage in 1701, non-Jacobite titles forfeited by attainder 1716
The second creation was in the Peerage of England in 1299, and became extinct on the death of the first holder in c. 1314.
The second creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1720 for Hugh Boscawen ( c. 1680-1734 ).
** Burke's Peerage, & c. ( 1886 ), pp. 610-11.
* Lodge, Edmund, Norroy King of Arms, & c., The Peerage of the British Empire, 27th edition, London, 1858, p. 94-5.
* Lodge, John, Keeper of the Rolls, & c., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, p. 124.
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Titles in the Peerage of Scotland cannot go into abeyance.
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Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Duke of Marlborough ( ), referring to Marlborough in Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of England.
Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, in the County of Aberdeen, in the County of Meath and in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
On 30 November 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, Viscount of Formartine and Earl of Aberdeen.
In 1815 he was created Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
Both titles are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
On 12 July 1618 the king created Bacon Baron Verulam, of Verulam, in the Peerage of England.
Between 1788 and 1957, all governors were born outside of New South Wales and were often members of the Peerage.
The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Grants of Honour.
* Balfour Paul, Sir James-Scots Peerage IX vols.
* Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999. pp. 714, 1295
Other recusants and martyrs are represented in the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales and amongst the Jacobites, such as the Earls of Derwentwater, particularly those ennobled in the Jacobite Peerage.
The Society's Bylaws state that " the Crown may elevate subjects to the Peerage by granting membership in one of the Orders conferring a Patent of Arms, after consultation with the members of the Order within the Kingdom, and in accordance with the laws and customs of the kingdom.
* 1254 – In England, an important step in the evolution of the Parliament and Peerage occurs, as lesser barons are replaced on the King's Council by elected representatives from shires and cities.
* 1264 – In the Peerage of England, the title Baron de Ros, the oldest continuously held peerage title in England, is created by writ of summons.
Until 1952, all were also either members of the Peerage or sons of peers and were born beyond Canada's borders.
* In England, an important step in the evolution of the Parliament and Peerage occurs, as lesser barons are replaced on the King's Council by elected representatives from shires and cities.
* In the Peerage of England, the title Baron de Ros, the oldest continuously held peerage title in England, is created by writ of summons.
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