The third earl ( a member of the Conservative Party ) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's 1999 House of Lords Act.

An official defining characteristic of an earl still consisted of the receipt of the " third penny ", one-third of the revenues of justice of a shire, that later became a fixed sum.

Upon the death of the third earl in 1189, the title became dormant or extinct.

The third creation was for Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1239, whose father Henry had married Maud, sister of the sixth earl.

The latter claimed, in right of his mother Frances Ratcliffe, daughter of Henry, third baron Fitz-walter, and second earl of Sussex, the barony of Fitz-walter, and his grandson Benjamin ( d. 1679 ), on 10 February 1670, was summoned to the House of Lords by that title.

His son, the third earl, was created Baron Audley of Hely on June 3, 1633 by letters patent, with the precedence of his grandfather, in an attempt to restore to him the original Barony of Audley.

Talbot became the second created Earl of Shrewsbury in 1442 after the title was forfeited by the third earl of the first creation in 1102.

The third earl, Richard, was the son of 2nd earl and Anne Woodville.

According to a story told by the third earl, the marriage was negotiated by John Locke, who was a trusted friend of the first earl.

The second Lord Shaftesbury has been traditionally, and possibly unfairly, regarded to have been both physically and mentally inadequate, although the letters sent by a youthful third earl to both his parents reveal a rather more complex picture, not least the emotional manipulation attempted by his mother in refusing to see her son unless he cut off all ties to his father.

In the 16th century it became the property of Sir James Stewart, whose grandson became third Earl of Moray by virtue of his marriage to the elder daughter of the first earl.

He was also given the subordinate title of Viscount Decies ; both titles became extinct upon the death of his younger son, the third earl, in 1704 ; he left an only daughter, Lady Katherine Power, but both titles descended by patent to male heirs only.

The development of the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality in nature distinct from beauty was first brought into prominence in the 18th century in the writings of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury, and John Dennis, in expressing an appreciation of the fearful and irregular forms of external nature, and Joseph Addison's synthesis of concepts of the sublime in his The Spectator, and later the Pleasures of the Imagination.

He left a written testament of which his son the third earl was an executor, as we learn in a reference dating to 1174.

His brother and successor, the third earl, was again created Baron Kenmare in the Peerage of the UK in 1856, and this title survived until the extinction of the earldom in 1952.

Agnes was betrothed in childhood to Geoffrey de Vere, brother of the first earl of Oxford, but later married Aubrey de Vere III, first earl of Oxford, as his third wife.

At some time before 1861 the Dukes of Bedford bought Kingston Russell for a second time, and when Lord John Russell ( 1792 – 1878 ) the prominent Liberal statesman, 3rd son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, was raised to the peerage as an earl on 30 July 1861, he chose the title Earl Russell of Kingston Russell, which title is still extant ( the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell was the third earl of this title ).

The third earl of Ulster married, before 16 November 1327 ( by a Papal Dispensation dated 1 May 1327 ), Maud, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster by his spouse Maud Chaworth.

Robert died without sons in October 1667, and his cousin John Maxwell, 7th Lord Herries ( d. 1677 ), became third earl.

William, 5th Earl of Nithsdale ( 1676 – 1744 ), a grandson of the third earl, was like his ancestor a Roman Catholic and was attached to the cause of the exiled House of Stuart.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

This third choice was in fact made.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

The young apprentice apparently did well by Mr. Brown, for in the third year of his apprenticeship Lucian was offered a full partnership in the firm ; ;

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

The third method was, to our knowledge, successfully applied for the first time by C. Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ).

In late 1957 the M.P. ( Mouvement Populaire ) appeared and in the spring of 1958 the internal strains of the Istiqlal was revealed when the third Council of Government under Balafrej was formed without support from progressive elements in the party.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

A third wrote that it was `` raining like poring peas on a rawhide ''.

On the third floor one of the two windows was lighted ; ;

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.