List of marquesses in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

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This is a list of present and extant Marquesses in the Peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922. Note that it does not mention any Marquessates held as a subsidiary title of a Duke. For a more complete listing, which adds these "hidden" Marquessates as well as extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, and forfeit ones, see List of Marquessates.

They were a relatively late introduction to the British peerage, and on the evening of the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne explained to her why (from her journals):

"I spoke to Ld M. about the numbers of Peers present at the Coronation, & he said it was quite unprecedented. I observed that there were very few Viscounts, to which he replied "There are very few Viscounts," that they were an old sort of title & not really English; that they came from Vice-Comites; that Dukes & Barons were the only real English titles; — that Marquises were likewise not English, & that people were mere made Marquises, when it was not wished that they should be made Dukes".[1]

Order of precedence

Heraldic representation of the Coronet of a British Marquess.

The general order of precedence among Marquesses is:

  1. Marquesses in the Peerage of England
  2. Marquesses in the Peerage of Scotland
  3. Marquesses in the Peerage of Great Britain
  4. Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland created before 1801
  5. Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland created after 1801

Marquesses in the Peerage of England

  1. The Marquess of Winchester (1551)

Marquesses in the Peerage of Scotland

  1. The Marquess of Huntly (1599)
  2. The Marquess of Queensberry (1682)
  3. The Marquess of Tweeddale (1694)
  4. The Marquess of Lothian (1701)

Marquesses in the Peerage of Great Britain

  1. The Marquess of Lansdowne (1784)
  2. The Marquess Townshend (1787)
  3. The Marquess of Salisbury (1789)
  4. The Marquess of Bath (1789)
  5. The Marquess of Hertford (1793)
  6. The Marquess of Bute (1796)

Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland

The two Irish Marquesses created after 1801 yield precedence to earlier created Marquesses of the United Kingdom.
  1. The Marquess of Waterford (1789)
  2. The Marquess of Downshire (1789)
  3. The Marquess of Donegall (1791)
  4. The Marquess of Headfort (1800)
  5. The Marquess of Sligo (1800)
    • Sebastian Ulick Browne, 12th Marquess of Sligo
  6. The Marquess of Ely (1800)
  7. The Marquess of Londonderry (1816)
    • Frederick Aubrey Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 10th Marquess of Londonderry
  8. The Marquess Conyngham (1816)

Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Precedence of Irish Marquesses shown in italics.
  1. The Marquess of Exeter (1801)
  2. The Marquess of Northampton (1812)
  3. The Marquess Camden (1812)
  4. The Marquess of Anglesey (1815)
  5. The Marquess of Cholmondeley (1815) (holds higher rank as Lord Great Chamberlain)
    Marquess of Londonderry (Ireland)
    Marquess Conyngham (Ireland)
  6. The Marquess of Ailesbury (1821)
  7. The Marquess of Bristol (1826)
  8. The Marquess of Ailsa (1831)
  9. The Marquess of Normanby (1838)
  10. The Marquess of Abergavenny (1876)
  11. The Marquess of Zetland (1892)
  12. The Marquess of Linlithgow (1902)
  13. The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1916)
  14. The Marquess of Milford Haven (1917)
  15. The Marquess of Reading (1926)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Queen Victoria's Journals, Thursday 28th June 1838, Buckingham Palace, Princess Beatrice's copies, Volume:4 (1st June 1838-1st October 1838) p. 84, online, accessed May 25, 2013
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