The family of Grey is ancient in Northumberland; and first obtained the peerage in the reign of Edward IV.
The first of this ancient family who did honour to the Scottish peerage was created Earl of Erroll by James II.
Lord Byron, because he brought real genius and power to the effort, found a vast auxiliary advantage in a peerage and a very ancient descent.
Having an English peerage of Hamilton in her own right, it is probable she preferred to continue her former title.
Punch had long acclaimed Tennyson as one of the major poets; but a slight element of reserve mingles in the congratulations on his peerage in 1883.
The peerage did not go to meals in this fashion; Tracy's training had not fitted him to enjoy this hilarious zoological clamor and enthusiasm.
But send for the Lady Gwendolen--do; for I reckon the peerage regulations require that she must come home and let on to go into seclusion and mourn for those Arkansas blatherskites she's lost.
The view presented in the text as to the penal clause in the act of 1684 is sustained by the opinion of Lord Watson in the Lauderdale Peerage Case: COOK, Reports of Cases Decided by the Eng.
In the old days the usurer used his own name, now they cull the peerage for the most historical they can find.
The measure had been proposed nearly a century before, by the peerage of Ireland themselves, then shrinking from a repetition of the war of James II.
The elevation of Mr Abercromby to the peerage in May 1839, caused a vacancy in the representation of the city of Edinburgh.
Those who represent the peerage as a class whose power is incompatible with the just influence of the people in the State, draw that parallel, and not I.
In the military peerage list of the time the wife of every ruling daimyo had her place together with the heir, alongside of her husband, though even in this case her name used to be omitted, while that of the heir was given.
Duc d'Ivry, who lost his place at court, his appointments which helped his income very much, and his peerage would no more acknowledge the usurper of Neuilly, than him of Elba.
The young men claimed kinsmanship with one another, which those who are learned in the peerage may unravel.
Is there any young man in the Peerageunmarried and richer than Farintosh?
Fergus Angus Malcolm Mungo Roy, Marquis of Farintosh, Earl of Glenlivat, in the peerage of Scotland; also Earl of Rossmont, in that of the United Kingdom.
And now a peerage is a paltry kind of thing to what it was in these old times, I could go into a great many more details about things of that sort, but I must turn to another branch of the subject.
I could get no biographical dictionary, and I thought the peerage book would help me, at least tell me whether people were old or young; and about all persons concerned in the actions about which I wrote.
The surly commons shall respect deny, And justle peerage out with property.
This peerage has excited great wrath even in many who are friendly to the Government, and probably in all who are unfriendly.
The debate in the House of Lords on the Wensleydale Peerage was interesting but inconclusive.
When we had done talking of this matter he said he wanted to speak to me about the Peerage question, which had assumed a shape which he thought menaced great embarrassment, if not danger.
When Lord Campbell went to some such place with Lady Stratheden (who had been raised to the peerage before her husband), the mistress of the house said that Sir A.
The first is the Life Peerage question, which is become very embarrassing to its opponents and its advocates.
Lushington, who refused to be made a peer when a peerage was pressed upon him.
George Lewis told me that the life peerage had never been brought before the Cabinet, and he knew nothing of it till he saw it in the Gazette, nor did Clarendon; in fact it was confined to the Chancellor, Granville, and Palmerston.
The untitled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetage.
Mr. Burke's 'Peerage and Baronetage' is the most complete, the most convenient and the cheapest work of the kind ever offered to the public.
Rouse all the Marquis within me,' exclaims the Earl, 'and the peerage never turned forth a more undaunted champion in its cause than I shall prove.
As an honest man, as a gallant man, ten times over you ought to have died, had you felt, which the English nobility of the fifteenth century did feel, that your peerage was your summons to the field of battle and the scaffold.
But the English peerage also celebrates services in the Senate as well as in the field.
It is by a continued secretion (so to speak) of all which forces itself to the surface of national importance in the way of patriotic services that the English peerage keeps itself alive.
In 1613 Chichester was raised to the peerage as Baron Chichester of Belfast, and in the following year he went to England to give an account of the state of Ireland.
At the same time, if you wish for success, make a bold push for the peerage and half-a-dozen decorations, for Miss Lucy is most decidedly gone wild about military distinction.
As for Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, that family was not raised to the peerage until the year 1672, in the reign of Charles II.
He studies the peerage attentively, carefully deciphering the mysteries of the coats of arms on the equipages.
But the present duke succeeded to the peerage before he came of age, and therefore never had a chance of sitting in the House of Commons.
The newspapers reported that a peerage had been offered and declined--but even newspapers are not invariably correct.
Tennyson had been blamed "by literary men" for thrice evading a baronetcy, and he did not think that a peerage would make smooth the lives of his descendants.
In 1884, after this voyage, with its royal functions and celebrations at Copenhagen, a peerage was offered to the poet.
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