The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

Bennett retired to Britain in 1938, and, on June 12, 1941, became the first and only former Canadian Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

On 1 September 1532, Henry granted her suo jure the Marquessate of Pembroke, an appropriate peerage for a future Queen ; as such she became a rich and important woman: the three Dukes and two Marquesses who existed in 1532 were the King's brother-in-law, the King's illegitimate son, and other descendants of royalty ; she ranked above all other peeresses.

On 17 February 1332, Philip VI bestowed it on his son John the Good, who, when he became king in turn ( 22 August 1350 ), gave the countship to his second son Louis I, raising it to a duchy in the peerage of France by letters patent of 25 October 1360.

Howard was one of Caroline's Women of the Bedchamber and became Mistress of the Robes when her husband inherited a peerage in 1731 ; she retired in 1734.

The modern peerage system is a vestige of the custom of English kings in the 12th and 13th centuries ; in the late 14th century, this right ( or " title ") began to be granted by decree, and titles also became inherited with the rest of an estate under the system of primogeniture.

Although Whitelaw was given a hereditary peerage, the title became extinct on his death as his daughters were unable to inherit.

When Edward Heath won the 1970 general election he received a life peerage as Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, of Herstmonceaux in the County of Sussex, and became Lord Chancellor.

He was known as H. H. Asquith until his elevation to the peerage ( 1925 ), when he became Lord Oxford.

At the age of 93, he became the second-oldest person ever to be granted a peerage ( after Lord Maenan ).

The title eventually became an honorary peerage.

In contrast, when Sophie Rhys-Jones married Prince Edward, she became HRH The Princess Edward, Countess of Wessex (& c .) and automatically acquired an HRH, by virtue of her marriage to a royal prince who was the son of the British monarch ; as only those males in the Royal Line of Succession receive Royal titles and styles unless there is special dispensation from the Monarch for special courtesy titles i. e. that of Viscount Severn for HRH The Earl of Wessex's son, Prince James ; as the British Monarchy operates on the basis of a male primogeniture ; i. e. one whereby males have preference over females in succeeding to the peerage or title.

As he had no children, his peerage became extinct on his death.

Among these descendants are the Counts of Miravalle, and the Dukes of Moctezuma de Tultengo, who became part of the Spanish peerage and left many descendants in Europe.

In 1834, when the leader of the Commons, Lord Althorp, succeeded to the peerage as Earl Spencer, Russell became the leader of the Whigs in the Commons, a position he maintained for the rest of the decade, until the Whigs fell from power in 1841.

On the death of his father on 30 July 1680 he became Baron Butler in the English peerage and Earl of Ossory by courtesy.

For these services Ōyama received the title of marquis under the kazoku peerage system, and, three years later, he became a field-marshal.

The last two to be granted were the promotion of the Marquess of Abercorn, a United Kingdom peerage, to be Duke of Abercorn in the Irish Peerage when he became Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1868, and the granting of Barony of Curzon of Kedleston to an English MP when he became Viceroy of India in 1898.

As the title of margrave lost its military connotation, it became more and more used as a mere ' peerage ' rank, higher than Graf ( count ) and its associated compound titles such as Landgraf, Gefürsteter Graf and Reichsgraf, but lower than Herzog ( duke ).

He was childless and the peerage became extinct on his death in 1888.

Adam Loftus became lord chancellor of Ireland in 1619, and in 1622 was created Viscount Loftus of Ely, King's County, in the peerage of Ireland.

At the Restoration of 1814, Marc René returned to France, was raised to the peerage in 1810, and became ambassador to Sweden ( where Charles completed his education ) in 1826.

In 1946 Beveridge was raised to the peerage as Baron Beveridge, of Tuggal in the County of Northumberland, and eventually became leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords.

He argued that, as he had opposed the Life Peerages Act 1958, it would be hypocritical for him to take one, but even if he was willing to accept a hereditary peerage ( which would have been extinct upon his death as he had no male heir ), Thatcher was unwilling to court the controversy that might have arisen as a result.

Once the heirs of the original peer die out, the peerage dignity becomes extinct.

The British peerage title of Baron Carrickfergus, which had become extinct in 1883, was bestowed upon Prince William on his wedding day on 29 April 2011.

* Duke of Sussex, a peerage title conferred in 1801 but currently extinct

Irish peerages continued to be created for almost a century after the Union, although the treaty of Union placed restrictions on their numbers: three needed to become extinct before a new peerage could be granted, until there were only 100 Irish peers-a condition still not achieved.

Nevertheless, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Sherbrooke, of Sherbrooke in the County of Surrey, against the express wishes of Queen Victoria, but with the backing of William Gladstone ( a peerage that would become extinct upon his death ).

On the death of his son William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax, in August 1700 without male issue, the peerage became extinct, and the baronetcy passed to the Saviles of Lupset, the whole male line of the Savile family ending in the person of Sir George Savile, 8th baronet, in 1784.

The title of Baron Mulgrave in the British peerage then became extinct, though his brother Henry Phipps succeeded him in the Irish barony.

Died without issue, the peerage became extinct.

On his death in 2001 the life peerage became extinct while he was succeeded in the hereditary barony and viscountcy by his son, the third Viscount.

The Complete Peerage considers that on the death of the 2nd Lord Ruthven, unmarried, the peerage became extinct, but notes that nonetheless it was assumed, first by the heir of entail of his estates, and later by the heirs of line.

The first, in 1066 a Feudal Barony rather than a peerage, became extinct in 1299.

His grandson the 3rd Viscount Mountjoy was created Earl of Blessington in 1745 and died in 1769, when all his peerage titles became extinct ( though the baronetcy remains extant ).

On his death in 2001 the life peerage became extinct while he was succeeded in the other titles by his eldest son, the fourth Viscount and present holder of the titles.

However, on his death in 1973 the barony of 1856 became extinct while the Irish peerage passed to his third cousin, the eighth Baron.

* G. E. Cokayne: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, by G. E. C.

At his death, the peerage became extinct in the Hay family.

On his death in 1901 the life peerage became extinct while he was succeeded in the baronetcy and hereditary barony by his eldest son, the second Baron.

On his death in 1937 the life peerage became extinct while he was succeeded in the hereditary barony by his son, the second Baron.