He never married and on his death in 1957 the baronies of Murray and Glenlyon and earldom of Strange became extinct, the barony of Percy was passed on to his kinsman the 10th Duke of Northumberland ( see Baron Percy ), while the barony of Strange fell into abeyance ( see Baron Strange ).

On his death in 1957 the barony fell into abeyance between his two daughters Hon.

The most likely person in whose favour the abeyance would be terminated is the son of Gervase Michael Cobham Thornely ( 1918-2009 ): Richard Michael Gervase Thornely ( b. 20 Jan 1957 ).

Her father, John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, had spent many years attempting to terminate an abeyance that arose on the death of the Duke of Atholl in 1957 ; he was confirmed in the title in 1965.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

The issue was left in abeyance, presumably for the peace conference.

In 1604, the Baron le Despencer case was the first peerage abeyance ever settled ; the second was at the Restoration in 1660.

It was entirely possible for a peerage to remain in abeyance for centuries.

For example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.

For example, abeyance was used as a settlement method in a Canadian lawsuit involving the University of Victoria Students ' Society ( UVSS ), the BCCLA, and a campus pro-life to whom the UVSS denied funding to.

Separate coronation as King of Croatia was gradually allowed to fall into abeyance and last crowned king is Charles Robert in 1301 after which Croatia contented herself with a separate diploma

The report, published on 26 June, was critical of the Dublin administration, saying that " Ireland for several years had been administered on the principle that it was safer and more expedient to leave the law in abeyance if collision with any faction of the Irish people could thereby be avoided.

The theme of his thesis was the nature of concordats and the function of canon law when a concordat falls into abeyance.

When Frederick I of Hohenstaufen was chosen as king in 1152, the royal power had been in effective abeyance for twenty-five years, and to a considerable degree, for more than eighty years.

Once the Treaty was ratified, the Houses of Parliament of Northern Ireland had one month ( dubbed the Ulster month ) to exercise this opt out during which month the Irish Free State Government could not legislate for Northern Ireland, holding the Free State ’ s effective jurisdiction in abeyance for a month.

This " privilege " created substantial returns in the next 250 years, although initially it was held in abeyance.

As Fusilier Robert Graves reported, " the regiment retorted by inquiring on what occasion since the retreat from Corunna, when the regiment was the last to leave Spain, with the keys of the town postern in the pocket of one of its officers, had any of His Majesty's enemies seen the back of a Royal Welch Fusilier ?," and the matter remained " in abeyance throughout the war.

The biblical restriction of heiresses to commit endogamy was repealed by the classical rabbis ; Rabbah argued that the rule only applied to the period that Canaan had been divided between the tribes, and had therefore become redundant, especially as the laws concerning the territory were in abeyance anyway, owing to the destruction of the Temple.

According to Liddy, when the plan was finally approved, " there was no longer enough lead time to get the Cuban waiters up from their Miami hotels and into place in the Washington Hotel where the dinner was to take place " and the plan was " put into abeyance pending another opportunity ".

On the Duke's death in 1691 all the titles became extinct, except the barony of Ogle which fell into abeyance between his four daughters ( one of whom was Lady Elizabeth Cavendish ).

If through lack of issue, marriage or both, eventually only one person represents the claims of all the sisters, he or she can claim the dignity as a matter of right, and the abeyance is said to be terminated.

Some other baronies became abeyant in the 13th century, and the abeyance has yet to be terminated.

In 1799 he became the fifth Baron Howard de Walden when the abeyance of this peerage was terminated.

* John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley ( 1371 – 1408 ) ( abeyance terminated 1408 )

* Mary Thicknesse-Touchet, 22nd Baroness Audley ( 1858 – 1942 ) ( abeyance terminated 1937 )

The barony of Willoughby de Eresby went into abeyance between the two sisters, but the Sovereign terminated the abeyance and granted the title to the elder sister, Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.

In 1799 he also inherited the Elizabethan-era title of Baron Howard de Walden from a distant cousin, when the abeyance of this peerage was terminated.

However, in 1806, the Prince Regent terminated the abeyance in her favour on the recommendation of his Prime Minister.

The abeyance was terminated in favour of her eldest daughter, Una Ross ( née Dawson ) in 1943, and again went into abeyance upon her death in 1956.

* George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros ( d. 1513 ) ( abeyance terminated about 1512 )

* Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 21st Baroness de Ros ( 1769 – 1831 ) ( abeyance terminated 1806 )

* Una Mary Ross, 26th Baroness de Ros ( 1879 – 1956 ) ( abeyance terminated 1943 ; abeyant 1956 )

* Georgiana Angela Maxwell, 27th Baroness de Ros ( 1933 – 1983 ) ( abeyance terminated 1958 )

On his death the barony of Willoughby de Eresby fell into abeyance between his sisters Lady Priscilla and Georgiana, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, who also jointly inherited the office of Lord Great Chamberlain ( the abeyance was terminated in 1780 in favour of Priscilla ; see the Baron Willoughby de Eresby for later history of this title ).

* James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton ( c. 1516 – 1581 ) ( abeyance terminated 1550, attainted 1580 / 81 )

In 1677 King Charles II terminated the abeyance of the barony of Ferrers of Chartley in his favour and he became the thirteenth Baron Ferrers of Chartley.

* Edward Burgh, 4th Baron Strabolgi ( d. 1528 ) ( abeyance terminated 1496 )

* Cuthbert Matthias Kenworthy, 9th Baron Strabolgi ( 1853 – 1934 ) ( abeyance terminated 1916 )

* Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh ( 1866 – 1926 ) ( abeyance terminated 1916 )

* Jacob Astley, 16th Baron Hastings ( 1797 – 1859 ) ( abeyance terminated 1841 ; confirmed in barony 1841 )

* Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun, 18th Baroness Hastings ( 1833 – 1874 ) ( abeyance terminated 1871 )

* Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun, 20th Baroness Hastings ( 1883 – 1960 ) ( abeyance terminated 1921 ; abeyant on her death )