The Peerage, baronetage, and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, for ... : including all the titled classes

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Introduction vii

Part I

The Peers, Peeresses, Bishops, Lords of Session, Privy Councillors, Baronets, and Knights of the British Empire, their several titles, parentage and descent, ages, marriages, professions, residences, public services, offices. Church patronage, the occasions on which their titles were conferred, their works in literature, science, and the arts, with numerous personal, historical, and parliamentary details 3

Part II

The Junior Nobility, comprising the sons and daughters of Peers, the grandchildren of Peers styled honourable or enjoying any other title, the married daughters and granddaughters of Peers, the collateral relatives of Peers enjoying titles by birth or patent — all alphabetically arranged — with their marriages, parentage, connexions, professions, &c 413

Second titles of Peers who at present have no male issue 494

The Obituary 496

Lists of the Orders of Knighthood (distinguishing the individuals who

are included in Part I., and giving the date of each Knight's

election), viz.

The Order of the Garter 499

The Order of the Thistle ibid.

The Order of St. Patrick 500

The Order of the Bath ibid.

The Order of St. Michael and St. George .504

The Order of the Guelphs of Hanover ibid.

Lists of the Privy Council of Great Britain and of Ireland, exhibiting

their Sub-denominations and Committees 507

British Subjects enjoying Foreign Titles 509

INTRODUCTION. .

The merits of brevity, though never openly denied, are not always practically acknowledged; and some readers may be found, who suppose that a work of moderate size must be proportionably circumscribed in the amount of information which it conveys ; that the weight of authority is on the side of large dimensions ; and that obscurity, feebleness, and imperfection are the necessary consequences of curtailing redundancy or avoiding repetition. To the few who labour under such prejudices the Author of these pages has nothing to offer; while to the intelligent reader, no further preface or apology is necessary than a short statement of the purposes with which this work was undertaken, the ends which it has been found to answer, and the deficiency in our books of reference which it was constructed to supply.

Accounts of the titled classes had hitherto been confined to those who possessed hereditary distinctions, omitting any reference to nearly one thousand oflScers in the colonial, diplomatic, military, naval, and civil service of the state. Bishops, Judges, Privy Councillors, and the different classes of Knights, enjoy distinctions which command universal respect, discharge functions of the highest dignity, and are in the daily habit of performing services to the state, on which the authority of England abroad and her via