How To Use Peerage In A Sentence

Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.
They'll both end up with peerages for distinguished service to British football/fashion and people will laugh at their youthful misdemeanours.
A life peerage is no longer a life sentence. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not a fan of the honours system, or peerages in general because very few genuinely deserve to be lifted in status.

But knighthood is an honour, not a peerage; he remained a member of the House of Commons until his retirement in 2001.
I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage. The Sun
She believes that hereditary peerages should be abolished.
He insisted two years ago that he would not follow Labour grandees in accepting a peerage. Times, Sunday Times
Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
In the 1980s, the Conservative Party also received loans that magically resulted in the loaner getting a peerage, and it still does the same thing today.
Now more of them are getting peerages as well. Times, Sunday Times
Burkes Peerage and Baronetage contains over one-hundred and eight thousand living persons and histories of two thousand four hundred families some stretching back as much as a thousand years.
But his controversial elevation to the peerage to enable him to become a junior health minister has already exposed his political naivety and allegiance. Times, Sunday Times
There has been no peerage, no official role for the man who singlehandedly pulled the rug from under a contemptuous Brussels elite. The Sun
The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England.
It took a few months between being invited to accept a peerage and its announcement. Times, Sunday Times
His entrepreneurial flair combined with a political career that earned him a knighthood and a peerage. Times, Sunday Times
In this way the worthy rectoress consoled herself; and her daughters sighed, and sat over the _Peerage_ all night .... From Chaucer to Tennyson
With the introduction of life peerages in 1958 (which also allowed peeresses in their own right to sit for the first time), the hereditary element in the House (while still a theoretical majority) declined in its daily attendance.
He wrote to me to share a little part of the treasure trove of maladdressed mail he has picked up since his elevation to the peerage.
In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards.
All of the mainstream parties have nominated their donors, especially the generous ones, for peerages or knighthoods.
Over time the issue was complicated by the idea of the gentleman, a social construct which could incorporate all members of the peerage and gentry.
Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
The media should distinguish between gals from the peerage and those from the beerage, plainly the latter have Guiness in their bottles from birth and are no more aristocratic than their forebears. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
Entrepreneurs who make private donations to the Prime Minister's flagship city academies can obtain honours and peerages, it was reported last night.
About a quarter have been honoured with a knighthood or peerage. Times, Sunday Times
In 1986 Her Majesty agreed to comply with the advice proffered to her by the Lords regarding abeyant peerages.
The party also flatly rejects suggestions that peerages were offered for donations. Times, Sunday Times
The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.
The fortunes of the family continued to rise and, in 1789, the 7th Earl, James Cecil, was elevated in the peerage to a marquess.
Her noble friend canvassed for her as if it were a county election of the good old days, when the representation of a shire was the certain avenue to a peerage, instead of being, as it is now, the high road to a poor-law commissionership. Tancred Or, The New Crusade
How on earth does anyone think people got into the House of Lords before the invention of life peerages? The Sun
Thomson was knighted in 1866 and raised to the peerage as Lord Kelvin of Largs in 1892.
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. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
NICE to see a man who raged against the Lords all his life taking a peerage. The Sun
Honours, such as knighthoods, peerages, and other decorations, are awarded on his recommendation.
Are they not repaid if people do get peerages? Times, Sunday Times
In the early 1850s, when Wentworth chaired the committee appointed to draft a new constitution for NSW, his unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy.
The heritage is authentic: while the opportunist ploughboy was penning those lines, he was also courting the favour of every belted earl in the peerage.
In 1923 he became MP for Warwick and Leamington, a seat he held until 1957 when, as prime minister, he resigned and was subsequently raised to the peerage as the Earl of Avon.
His entrepreneurial flair combined with a political career that earned him a knighthood and a peerage. Times, Sunday Times
In 1942 Keynes was elevated to the peerage and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he sat on the Liberal benches.
Yesterday he was given a peerage and made commercial secretary. Times, Sunday Times
As a reward for taking defeat with dignity he was awarded a peerage, becoming Lord Watson of Invergowrie.
All life Baronies are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and rank amongst hereditary Baronies in that Peerage (and each other) by date of creation.
If you accept a life peerage, you have some power for as long as you want. Times, Sunday Times
In 1958 the Life Peerages Act created non-hereditary peerages which would be granted to a person (male or female) for the term of their life.
Maybe some people would prefer to have a peerage without the onerous duty. Times, Sunday Times
Peerages could be bought and impoverished baronets survive on the dubious value of their once good name.
That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage.
Until the Reformation, the spiritual peerage also included abbots and priors, and spiritual peers formed a majority of the House of Lords.
Only two groups had ‘social’ status in seventeenth-century England - the gentry and the peerage.
Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status.
Like his first presidential friend, Bill Clinton, whose second term bogged down in the Monica Lewinsky affair, he is dogged by a miniscandal of his own -- the so-called cash-for-peerages imbroglio in which donors allegedly gave big loans to the Labour Party in exchange for seats in the House of Lords. I Did It My Way
Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace.
Maybe some people would prefer to have a peerage without the onerous duty. Times, Sunday Times
Although earldoms were granted by charters from the earliest period, because, attached to the earldom, were also material rights which needed to be conveyed, patents did not come into use for baronies until it was desired to limit the succession of the peerage to the heirs male of the body of the grantee, which is a limitation and a less heirship than is comprised in the enjoyment of an honour in fee simple. The Handbook to English Heraldry
This, however, is not the place to expatiate on Ormskirk's extraordinary career; his rise from penury and obscurity, tempered indeed by gentle birth, to the priviest secrets of his Majesty's council, -- climbing the peerage step by step, as though that institution had been a garden-ladder, -- may be read of in the history books. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
She was born Kathleen Eileen Moray in 1878, in County Wexford, Ireland, but when her mother inherited a peerage in Scotland to become Baroness Gray, the family changed its name.
Police indulged in 'histrionic gestures' during investigation of loans-for-peerages allegations, says former aide to Tony Blair Jonathan Powell accuses John Yates of 'cavalier' approach over Met inquiry
Only a few years later the Scottish physicist William Thomson, later elevated to the peerage as Lord Kelvin, attempted an estimate on a completely different basis.
Lord Stevenson is of the opinion that candidates for the peerage might range from midwives to tycoons.
There is no independent evidence to say whether the peerage offer was a cruel joke or the result of poor staff work. THE GUARDSMEN
In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards.
This book deals with the institution of the House of Lords, rather than the social and economic history of the peerage, and especially during the critical period of the reign of King Charles II.
Labour will table another bill in 2007 proposing the total abolition of the peerage, making the upper house an all-appointed chamber.
In 1807 Malmesbury reported that there had been fifty-three applications for peerages, and that the King had refused them all.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1851, knighted in 1866 and elevated to the peerage as Lord Kelvin in 1892.
It is alleged that at least four businessmen, and possibly more, who made unpublicised loans to the Labour Party were subsequently nominated for peerages by Tony Blair.
The head of the watchdog on peerages has compared the use of secret loans by political parties to tax avoidance. Times, Sunday Times
The Peerage Act 1963 allowed hereditary peers to disclaim their peerages for life, admitted hereditary peeresses in their own right into the house, and gave membership to all peers of Scotland.
Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man. Vanity Fair
The king conferred the dignity of a peerage on the general.
The head of the watchdog on peerages has compared the use of secret loans by political parties to tax avoidance. Times, Sunday Times
With Labour debt at 23 million and the Tories a wapping 35 million in the red, only tax payer help, or the promise of peerages and such will prevent the creditors calling in the receivers. State Funding Here We Come
At least it might get you a peerage. Times, Sunday Times
For an opposition in the Lords it is almost a throwback to the days when the hereditary peerage constituted a majority of the members of the House. Times, Sunday Times
Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons.
That battle secured for Jervis a peerage (as Earl of St. Vincent — Cape Jervis and the Gulf of St. Vincent were both named after him), but it also made the reputation of Captain Horatio Nelson of H.M.S. Captain. Archive 2009-03-01
Both acts are morally wrong - Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages.
Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status.
Being museum types, it was a plastic file with photocopies, but as a memorial to achievement, it meant more than the Garter or a peerage or a letterhead of doctorates.
He held five other peerages besides the title of the Duke of Devonshire - Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, Lord Cavendish of Hardwick and Lord Cavendish of Keighley.
Why shouldn't they be given peerages? Times, Sunday Times
The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.
As a Lord, he gets entered into the books of peerage and is entitled to display his coat-of-arms.
He was well descended and well connected (there was an abeyant peerage in his family), but in point of fact, his social position was not better than that of some other boys in the school. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The title, in the letters patent creating the peerage, was gazetted as Earl of Scarbrough and not Scarborough.
At court, they were welcomed back with open arms and with a judicious distribution of offices, honours, and peerages.
For through this partly we have attained to a knowledge of Dorothy's surroundings; and through the baronetages, peerages, and the invincible heaps of genealogical records, we have gathered some few actual facts necessary to be known of Dorothy's relations, her human surroundings, their lives and actions.
The beerage has proved of late years also a highway to the peerage; and it has also served to deplete the pockets of a good many British fools, who were misled into the insane delusion that they could earn as much from the profits of American guzzling as from those of British beer-drinking. Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor
Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a Michael
In 1922 evidence emerged that he had been awarding knighthoods and peerages in return for money. Times, Sunday Times
With the Queen Mother due at Dover, the King set out to greet her, but not before making a gift of 20,000 pounds to Edward Hyde and leaving a signed warrant raising him to the peerage as Lord Hyde of Hindon.
In September 1945 he was raised to the peerage, and retired the following March.
Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status.
This Duc de Val*******, although Prince de Mon**, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything through their medium. Les Miserables
City Academies could be given peerages. The Sun
She accepted her lavish claims had scuppered any chance she had of being offered a peerage. The Sun
Suspicion has shadowed him ever since he gave up the chairmanship of his family's supermarket chain and took his government post in 1998, collecting a peerage along the way.
Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man. Vanity Fair
Over time the issue was complicated by the idea of the gentleman, a social construct which could incorporate all members of the peerage and gentry.
While all peddling of honours is reprehensible, the sale of peerages is most serious because it trades a seat in the legislature.
The Queen conferred the dignity of a peerage on him.
He was elevated to the peerage of Ireland as Lord Kilmaine, for services to the British Crown.
He wasn't taking lessons from the party of the dodgy dossier and cash for peerages. Times, Sunday Times
(The idea was that they would surrender their ancient claims to their land to the King, and he would then regrant them their territory and give them peerages; there were also usually provisions about adopting English dress and customs.) September Books 19) Tudor Ireland
Non-hereditary peers have been created since the Life Peerage Act of 1958; they tend to be more active members of the Lords than many hereditary peers.
In 1999 his charity work gained him a knighthood to add to his life peerage from Margaret Thatcher.
But an actual recipient of a peerage is addressed by Lord plus whatever name he chooses at the time of receiving the status.
In Parliament the House of Lords was dominated by the landed aristocracy, and the landed gentry, often related to the peerage, held sway in the House of Commons.
Their rising greatness, to the merited disgrace and death of Piers de Gavestone and his profligate minions! and their final exaltation to the highest honours of the British peerage, which they have now enjoyed for five hundred years, to the strong hand and unblenching heart with which they have always welcomed the assaults of their most powerful enemies! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
Then came Frederick Penny, who was MP for Kingston until his elevation to the peerage as Lord Marchwood in 1932.
It not only puts another nail in socialism's coffin, but deprives him of a peerage.
Women aren't allowed to inherit most hereditary peerages. Times, Sunday Times
The Life Peerage Act made it possible for people to be given a peerage during their own lifetime without the title passing to their heirs; they were life peers.
He entered Parliament in 1818, sitting for several constituencies until returned for the City of London in 1841, which he represented until his elevation to the peerage as Earl Russell.
The sons of British sovereigns are usually given peerages at some point in their lives, and since the 14th century their senior title has been in the degree of duke - the highest rank in the British peerage.
Twenty minutes later I’d heard a detailed, if rushed, explanation of everything from the meaning of writs patent to the coup enacted by Margaret Thatcher when she managed to secure the title of baronet for her husband, thus ensuring a hereditary aristocratic status for her descendants prime ministers are traditionally granted life peerages, which are not hereditary. Shaking the Family Tree
Wendy doesn't have a peerage - her's is a simple manorial title, but the two often get confused.
In the Peerage Act peers were given the option of disclaiming their titles within one year.
Richard Chenevix Trench, who succeeded to the deanery on the death of Dr. Buckland, in 1856, is a nephew of the first Lord Ashtown, in the Irish peerage.
Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours.
He deftly sidestepped the falls of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell and was raised to the peerage.
He was proud to be the first actor to be elevated to the peerage, though he never spoke in the Lords after his maiden speech.
As we desired to avoid the possibility of a similar accident happening to us, we dismounted from our _cacolet_, and walked across the ledge to some distance: and, after a short repose beneath the shelter of the overhanging rocks, which a violent shower made most convenient at the moment, we prepared to retrace our steps; satisfied with having advanced so far on the same route taken by "Charlemagne and all his peerage. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
She has confirmed that she will accept the honour of a peerage.
Lord William was already someone; he was the son of a wealthy duke; he was one of the respected ton; he belonged to the English peerage; he had no financial concerns at all.
There is no mechanism for those who are chosen for life peerages to give up the role. Times, Sunday Times
Wolseley was promoted general and elevated to the peerage as a result but, three years later, his relief expedition failed to reach Khartoum in time to rescue Charles Gordon from the dervishes.
In 1941 he was raised to the peerage as Lord Cherwell and in 1942 was appointed paymaster-general.
Walter, son and heir of the restored earl, was given an English peerage as Lord Butler of Llanthony (1801) and an Irish marquessate of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
To the old title of earl was added dukedoms which were at first reserved for the royal family, marquisates, baronies, and viscountcies. By the end of Henry VI's reign the peerage had grown to about 60.
The Queen conferred the dignity of a peerage on him.
Yet the feat she trumpets most was, in June, gaining her peerage.
That is the one lesson that should have been learnt by now, after the year-long investigation into the alleged sale of peerages. Times, Sunday Times
The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England.
The cousinship is a distant one; but there is no question, whatever, as to his being next in succession to myself to the peerage. On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War
She could also be given a working peerage and a Lords job. The Sun
They were raised to the peerage in the 17th century and the marquessate created in 1789. Times, Sunday Times
Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours.
The Queen raised him to the peerage to honour hi contribution to his motherland.
Are loans repaid if people do not get peerages? Times, Sunday Times
It is a tacit acknowledgement that neither office nor a peerage awaits them.
Well, you see," expounded John, unruffled, "as an adorer of the sex, and heir to a peerage, I shouldn't want to marry a woman unless I could support her in what they call a manner becoming her rank -- and I couldn't. My Friend Prospero

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