- Look up peer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peer or
peeress may
refer to: Peer, an
equal in age,
education or
social class; see Peer
group Peer,...
- In the
United Kingdom, life
peers are
appointed members of the
peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in
contrast to
hereditary peers. Life
peers are...
- Lady
Elizabeth Mary Finch-Hatton (née Murray; 18 May 1760 – 1 June 1825) was a
British aristocrat and the
subject of a
notable painting, once
thought to...
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Cholmondeley (/ˈtʃʌmli/ CHUM-lee; née Hanbury; born 15
March 1984) is a
British peeress,
former model, and
former political staffer. She is
married to
David Cholmondeley...
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher,
Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a
British stateswoman and
Conservative politician who served...
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established in
Tokyo 1884: Gakushūin
became an
Imperial institution. 1885:
Peeresses'
School was
created 1947: Gakushūin
became a
private institution. The...
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majority of
hereditary peerages can only be
inherited by men, the
number of
peeresses in
their own
right is very small; only 18 out of 758
hereditary peers...
- 450: "...everybody
knows that it is a very
common practice for
peeresses (not
being peeresses in
their own right)
after marrying commoners to
retain the title...
- princess,
peeress suo jure Hawise,
Duchess of
Brittany –
duchess suo jure
Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd
Duchess of
Marlborough –
English peeress suo jure Maria...
- of
Parliament use The Honourable.
Divorced peeresses "cannot
claim the
privileges or
status of
Peeresses which they
derived from
their husbands". While...
