PEERAGE
Last updated 20/10/2009
Date Rank Order Name Born Died  Age
EAMES
25 Aug 1995 B[L] 1 Robert Henry Alexander Eames 27 Apr 1937
Created Baron Eames 25 Aug 1995
OM 2007                                                         
EARDLEY
24 Sep 1789 B[I] 1 Sir Sampson Eardley,1st baronet 10 Oct 1744 25 Dec 1824 80
to    Created Baron Eardley 24 Sep 1789
25 Dec 1824 MP for Cambridgeshire 1770-1780 and Coventry
1784-1796
Peerage extinct on his death
EARLSFORT
20 May 1784 B[I] 1 John Scott 8 Jun 1739 23 May 1798 58
Created Baron Earlsfort 20 May 1784,
Viscount Clonmell 18 Aug 1789 and
Earl of Clonmell 20 Dec 1793
See "Clonmell"
EASTNOR
17 Jul 1821 V 1 John Sommers Cocks,Baron Somers 6 May 1760 5 Jan 1841 80
Created Viscount Eastnor and Earl
Somers 17 Jul 1821
See "Somers" - this peerage extinct 1883
EATWELL
14 Jul 1992 B[L] 1 John Leonard Eatwell 2 Feb 1945
Created Baron Eatwell 14 Jul 1992
EBBISHAM
5 Jul 1928 B 1 Sir George Rowland Blades,1st baronet 15 Apr 1868 24 May 1953 85
Created Baron Ebbisham 5 Jul 1928
MP for Epsom 1918-1928
24 May 1953 2 Rowland Roberts Blades 3 Sep 1912 12 Apr 1991 78
to    Peerage extinct on his death
12 Apr 1991
EBRINGTON
1 Sep 1789 V 1 Hugh Fortescue,Baron Fortescue 12 Mar 1753 16 Jun 1841 88
Created Viscount Ebrington and Earl
Fortescue 1 Sep 1789
See "Fortescue"
EBURY
15 Sep 1857 B 1 Lord Robert Grosvenor 24 Apr 1801 18 Nov 1893 92
Created Baron Ebury 15 Sep 1857
MP for Shaftesbury 1822-1826, Chester
1826-1847 and Maidstone 1847-1857.
PC 1831
18 Nov 1893 2 Robert Wellesley Grosvenor 25 Jan 1834 13 Nov 1918 84
MP for Westminster 1865-1874
13 Nov 1918 3 Robert Victor Grosvenor 28 Jun 1868 5 Nov 1921 53
5 Nov 1921 4 Francis Egerton Grosvenor 8 Sep 1883 15 May 1932 48
15 May 1932 5 Robert Egerton Grosvenor 8 Feb 1914 5 May 1957 43
5 May 1957 6 Francis Egerton Grosvenor 8 Feb 1934
He succeeded to the Earldom of Wilton
(qv) in 1999
ECCLES
14 Jan 1964 V 1 David McAdam Eccles 18 Sep 1904 24 Feb 1999 94
Created Baron Eccles 1 Aug 1962 and
Viscount Eccles 14 Jan 1964
MP for Chippenham 1943-1962. Minister of
Works 1951-1954. Minister of Education
1954-1957. President of the Board of Trade
1957-1959. Minister of Education 1959-1962
Paymaster General 1970-1973 PC 1951 CH 1984
24 Feb 1999 2 John Dawson Eccles 20 Apr 1931
ECCLES OF MOULTON
10 May 1990 B[L] 1 Diana Catherine Eccles 4 Oct 1933
Created Baroness Eccles of Moulton
10 May 1990
ECHINGHAM
19 Dec 1311 B 1 William de Echingham Jun 1326
to    Summoned to Parliament as Lord
Jun 1326 Echingham 19 Dec 1311
Peerage extinct on his death
EDDISBURY
12 May 1848 B 1 Edward John Stanley 13 Nov 1802 16 Jun 1869 66
Created Baron Eddisbury 12 May 1848
He succeeded to the Barony of Stanley of
Alderley (qv) in 1850 with which title this
peerage then merged
EDEN
12 Jul 1961 E 1 Robert Anthony Eden 12 Jun 1897 14 Jan 1977 79
Created Viscount Eden and Earl of
Avon 12 Jul 1961
See "Avon"
EDEN OF NORWOOD
21 Dec 1839 B 1 George Eden,Baron Auckland 25 Aug 1784  1 Jan 1849 64
to    Created Baron Eden of Norwood and
1 Jan 1849 Earl of Auckland 21 Dec 1839
These peerages extinct on his death
EDEN OF WINTON
3 Oct 1983 B[L] 1 Sir John Benedict Eden,9th baronet 15 Sep 1925
Created Baron Eden of Winton for life
3 Oct 1983
MP for Bournemouth West 1954-1983.
Minister of State,Technology 1970. Minister
for Industry 1970-1972. Minister of Posts
and Telecommunications 1972-1974. PC 1972
EDGCUMBE
20 Apr 1742 B 1 Richard Edgcumbe 23 Apr 1680 22 Nov 1758 78
Created Baron Edgcumbe of Mount
Edgcumbe 20 Apr 1742
See "Mount Edgcumbe"
EDINBURGH
26 Jul 1726 D 1 Frederick Lewis 20 Jan 1707 20 Mar 1751 44
Created Baron of Snowdon,Viscount
of Launceston,Earl of Eltham,
Marquess of the Isle of Ely and Duke
of Edinburgh 26 Jul 1726
Eldest son of George II
20 Mar 1751 2 George William Frederick,Duke of Cornwall
to    He succeeded to the throne as George III
1760 when the peerage merged with the Crown
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24 May 1866 D 1 Alfred Ernest Albert 6 Aug 1844 30 Jul 1900 55
to    Created Earl of Ulster,Earl of Kent
30 Jul 1900 and Duke of Edinburgh 24 May 1866
KG 1863  KT 1864  PC 1866  KP 1880
Peerages extinct on his death
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20 Nov 1947 D 1 Philip Mountbatten 10 Jun 1921
Created Baron Greenwich,Earl of
Merioneth and Duke of Edinburgh
20 Nov 1947
KG 1947 KT 1952 OM 1968
EDIRDALE
29 Jan 1488 E[S] 1 James Stewart,Earl of Ross Mar 1476 17 Jan 1504 27
to    Created Lord Brechin and Navar,Earl
17 Jan 1504 of Edirdale,Marquess of Ormond and
Duke of Ross 29 Jan 1488
Second son of James III of Scotland
Peerages extinct on his death
EDMUND-DAVIES
1 Oct 1974 B[L] 1 Herbert Edmund Edmund-Davies 15 Jul 1906 26 Dec 1992 86
to    Created Baron Edmund-Davies
26 Dec 1992 1 Oct 1974
Lord Justice of Appeal 1966-1974. Lord
of Appeal in Ordinary 1974-1981  PC 1966
Peerage extinct on his death
EDNAM
5 Oct 1827 E 1 John William Ward,Viscount Dudley 9 Aug 1781 6 Mar 1833 51
to    Created Viscount Ednam and Earl of
6 Mar 1833 Dudley of Dudley Castle 5 Oct 1827
Peerages extinct on his death
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17 Feb 1860 V 1 William Ward,Baron Ward 27 Mar 1817 7 May 1885 68
Created Viscount Ednam and Earl of
Dudley of Dudley Castle 17 Feb 1860
See "Dudley of Dudley Castle"
EDRINGTON
22 Jan 1336 B 1 Henry de Edrington after 1336
to    Summoned to Parliament as Lord
after 1336 Edrington 22 Jan 1336
The peerage presumably became extinct
on his death
EFFINGHAM
11 Mar 1554 B 1 Lord Thomas Howard c 1510 11 Jan 1573
Created Baron Howard of Effingham
11 Mar 1554
Lord Privy Seal 1572-1573. Lord Lieutenant
Surrey 1559-1573  KG 1554
11 Jan 1573 2 Charles Howard,Earl of Nottingham 1536 14 Dec 1624 88
19 Mar 1603 3 William Howard 27 Dec 1577 28 Nov 1615 37
He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of
Acceleration as Baron Howard of Effingham
19 Mar 1603
On his death the peerage reverted to his father
(see above)
14 Dec 1624 4 Charles Howard,Earl of Nottingham 1579 3 Oct 1642 63
3 Oct 1642 5 Charles Howard,Earl of Nottingham 26 Apr 1681
26 Apr 1681 6 Francis Howard 17 Sep 1643 30 Mar 1695 51
Governor of Virginia 1683
30 Mar 1695 7 Thomas Howard 7 Jul 1682 13 Jul 1725 43
13 Jul 1725 8 Francis Howard 20 Oct 1683 12 Feb 1743 59
8 Dec 1731 E 1 Created Earl of Effingham 8 Dec 1731
12 Feb 1743 9 Thomas Howard 1714 19 Nov 1763 49
2
19 Nov 1763 10 Thomas Howard 13 Jan 1746 19 Nov 1791 45
3 Master of the Mint 1784-1789. Governor of
Jamaica 1789-1791
19 Nov 1791 11 Richard Howard 21 Feb 1748 10 Dec 1816 68
to    4 On his death the Earldom became extinct
10 Dec 1816 whilst the Barony passed to -
10 Dec 1816 12 Kenneth Alexander Howard 29 Nov 1767 13 Feb 1845 77
27 Jan 1837 E 1 Created Earl of Effingham 27 Jan 1837
13 Feb 1845 2 Henry Howard 23 Aug 1806 5 Feb 1889 82
MP for Shaftesbury 1841-1845
5 Feb 1889 3 Henry Howard 7 Feb 1837 4 May 1898 61
4 May 1898 4 Henry Alexander Gordon Howard 15 Aug 1866 6 May 1927 60
6 May 1927 5 Gordon Frederick Henry Charles Howard 18 May 1873 7 Jul 1946 73
7 Jul 1946 6 Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard 29 Nov 1905 22 Feb 1996 90
22 Feb 1996 7 David Peter Mowbray Algernon Howard 29 Apr 1939
EGERTON OF TATTON
15 May 1859 B 1 William Tatton Egerton 30 Dec 1806 21 Feb 1883 76
Created Baron Egerton of Tatton
15 May 1859
MP for Lymington 1830-1832 and Cheshire
North 1832-1858. Lord Lieutenant Cheshire
1868-1883
21 Feb 1883 2 Wilbraham Egerton 17 Jan 1832 16 Mar 1909 77
22 Jul 1897 E 1 Created Viscount Salford and Earl
to    Egerton of Tatton 22 Jul 1897
16 Mar 1909 MP for Cheshire North 1858-1868 and
Cheshire Mid 1868-1883. Lord Lieutenant
Cheshire 1900-1905
On his death the Earldom and Viscountcy became
extinct whilst the Barony passed to -
16 Mar 1909 3 Alan de Tatton Egerton 19 Mar 1845 9 Sep 1920 75
MP for Cheshire Mid 1883-1885 and
Knutsford 1885-1906
9 Sep 1920 4 Maurice Egerton 4 Aug 1874 30 Jan 1958 83
to    Peerage extinct on his death
30 Jan 1958
EGLINTON
Jan 1507 E[S] 1 Hugh Montgomerie,Lord Montgomerie 1460 Jun 1545 84
Created Earl of Eglinton Jan 1507
Jun 1545 2 Hugh Montgomerie 3 Sep 1546
3 Sep 1546 3 Hugh Montgomerie 1531 3 Jun 1585 53
3 Jun 1585 4 Hugh Montgomerie 1563 18 Apr 1586 22
18 Apr 1586 5 Hugh Montgomerie 1584 4 Sep 1612 28
4 Sep 1612 6 Alexander Montgomerie 1588 7 Jan 1661 72
7 Jan 1661 7 Hugh Montgomerie 8 Apr 1613 Feb 1669 55
Feb 1669 8 Alexander Montgomerie 1701
1701 9 Alexander Montgomerie c 1660 18 Feb 1729
For information on this peer's third wife,
see the note at the foot of this page.
18 Feb 1729 10 Alexander Montgomerie 10 Feb 1723 25 Oct 1769 46
For information on this peer's death,
see the note at the foot of this page.
25 Oct 1769 11 Archibald Montgomerie 18 May 1726 30 Oct 1796 70
MP for Ayrshire 1761-1768. Lord Lieutenant
Ayrshire 1794-1796
30 Oct 1796 12 Hugh Montgomerie 5 Nov 1739 14 Dec 1819 80
Created Baron Ardrossan 21 Feb 1806
MP for Ayrshire 1780-1781,1784-1789 and
1796.  KT 1812. Lord Lieutenant Ayrshire
1796-1819
14 Dec 1819 13 Archibald William Montgomerie 29 Sep 1812 4 Oct 1861 49
Created Earl of Winton 23 Jun 1859
Lord Lieutenant Ayrshire 1842-1861. Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland 1852-1853 and 1858-
1859. PC 1852  KT 1853
For further information on this peer, and on the
Eglinton Tournament in particular, see the note
at the foot of this page.
4 Oct 1861 14 Archibald William Montgomerie 3 Dec 1841 30 Aug 1892 50
30 Aug 1892 15 George Arnulf Montgomerie 23 Feb 1848 10 Aug 1919 71
Lord Lieutenant Ayrshire 1897-1919
10 Aug 1919 16 Archibald Seton Montgomerie 23 Jun 1880 22 Apr 1945 64
22 Apr 1945 17 Archibald William Alexander Montgomerie 16 Oct 1914 21 Apr 1966 51
21 Apr 1966 18 Archibald George Montgomerie 27 Aug 1939
EGMONT
6 Nov 1733 E[I] 1 Sir John Perceval,5th baronet 12 Jul 1683 1 May 1748 64
Created Baron Perceval 21 Apr 1715,
Viscount Perceval 25 Feb 1723 and
Earl of Egmont 6 Nov 1733
MP for Harwich 1722-1734. PC [I] 1704
1 May 1748 2 John Perceval 25 Feb 1711 4 Dec 1770 59
Created Baron Lovell and Holland
7 May 1762
MP for Westminster 1741-1747, Weobly
1747-1754 and Bridgewater 1754-1762.
Postmaster General 1762-1763. First Lord
of the Admiralty 1763-1766.  PC 1755
4 Dec 1770 3 John James Perceval 23 Jan 1738 25 Feb 1822 84
MP for Bridgewater 1762-1769
25 Feb 1822 4 John Perceval 13 Aug 1767 31 Dec 1835 68
31 Dec 1835 5 Henry Frederick Joseph James Perceval 3 Jan 1796 23 Dec 1841 45
MP for East Looe 1826
23 Dec 1841 6 George James Perceval,3rd Baron Arden 14 Mar 1794 2 Aug 1874 80
MP for Surrey West 1837-1840
2 Aug 1874 7 Charles George Perceval 15 Jun 1845 5 Sep 1897 52
MP for Midhurst 1874
5 Sep 1897 8 Augustus Arthur Perceval 4 Jun 1856 11 Aug 1910 54
For further information on this peer, see the
note at the foot of this page.
11 Aug 1910 9 Charles John Perceval 29 Jun 1858 10 Jan 1929 70
10 Jan 1929 10 Frederick Joseph Trevelyan Perceval 27 Apr 1873 16 May 1932 59
For further information on this peer, see the
note at the foot of this page.
16 May 1932 11 Frederick George Moore Perceval 14 Apr 1914 10 Dec 2001 87
For further information on this peer, see the
note at the foot of this page.
10 Dec 2001 12 Thomas Frederick Gerald Perceval 17 Aug 1934
EGREMONT
20 Nov 1449 B 1 Sir Thomas Percy 29 Nov 1422 10 Jul 1460 37
to    Created Baron Egremont 20 Nov 1449
10 Jul 1460 Peerage extinct on his death
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3 Oct 1749 E 1 Algernon Seymour,Duke of Somerset 11 Nov 1684 7 Feb 1750 65
Created Baron Cockermouth and Earl
of Egremont 3 Oct 1749
7 Feb 1750 2 Sir Charles Wyndham,4th baronet 19 Aug 1710 21 Aug 1763 53
MP for Bridgewater 1734-1741, Appleby
1741-1747, and Taunton 1747-1750. Lord
Lieutenant Cumberland 1751-1759 and
Sussex Jan-Aug 1763. Secretary of State
1761  PC 1761
21 Aug 1763 3 George O'Brien Wyndham 18 Dec 1751 11 Nov 1837 85
Lord Lieutenant Sussex 1819-1835
11 Nov 1837 4 George Francis Wyndham 30 Aug 1785 2 Apr 1845 59
to    Peerage extinct on his death
2 Apr 1845
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27 Nov 1963 B 1 John Edward Reginald Wyndham 5 Jun 1920 6 Jun 1972 52
Created Baron Egremont 27 Nov 1963
He succeeded to the Barony of
Leconfield (qv) 1967,with which title this
peerage then merged
ELBOTTLE
1646 B[S] 1 Sir James Maxwell 19 Apr 1650
to    Created Lord Elbottle and Earl of
19 Apr 1650 Dirletoun 1646
Peerages extinct on his death
ELCHO AND METHELL
25 Jun 1633 B[S] 1 John Wemyss,Lord Wemyss 1586 22 Nov 1649 63
Created Lord Elcho and Methell and
Earl of Wemyss 25 Jun 1633
See "Wemyss"
ELDER
19 Jul 1999 B[L] 1 Thomas Murray Elder 9 May 1940
Created Baron Elder 19 Jul 1999
ELDON
7 Jul 1821 E 1 John Scott 4 Jun 1751 13 Jan 1838 86
Created Baron Eldon 18 Jul 1799 and
Viscount Encombe and Earl of Eldon
7 Jul 1821
MP for Weobly 1783-1796 and Boroughbridge
1796-1799. Solicitor General 1788-1793.
Attorney General 1793-1799. Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas 1799-1801
Lord Chancellor 1801-1806 and 1807-1827
PC 1799
13 Jan 1838 2 John Scott 10 Dec 1805 18 Sep 1854 48
MP for Truro 1829-1832
18 Sep 1854 3 John Scott 8 Nov 1845 10 Aug 1926 80
10 Aug 1926 4 John Scott 29 Mar 1899 20 Oct 1976 77
20 Oct 1976 5 John Joseph Nicholas Scott 24 Apr 1937
ELGIN
21 Jun 1633 E[S] 1 Thomas Bruce,3rd Lord Bruce of Kinloss 2 Dec 1599 21 Dec 1663 64
Created Lord Bruce of Kinloss and
Earl of Elgin 21 Jun 1633,and Baron
Bruce of Whorlton 30 Jul 1641
21 Dec 1663 2 Robert Bruce 19 Mar 1626 20 Oct 1685 59
MP for Bedfordshire 1660-1664
  Created Baron Bruce of Skelton,  
Viscount Bruce of Ampthill and Earl of  
Ailesbury 18 Mar 1664  
   
20 Oct 1685 3 Thomas Bruce,Earl of Ailesbury 1656 16 Dec 1741 85
16 Dec 1741 4 Charles Bruce,Earl of Ailesbury 1682 10 Feb 1747 64
He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of
Acceleration as Baron Bruce of Whorlton
29 Dec 1711
10 Feb 1747 5 Charles Bruce 26 Jul 1732 14 May 1771 38
He had succeeded to the Earldom of
Kincardine (qv) in 1740
14 May 1771 6 William Robert Bruce 28 Jan 1764 15 Jul 1771 7
15 Jul 1771 7 Thomas Bruce 20 Jul 1766 14 Nov 1841 75
PC 1799. Lord Lieutenant Fife Mar-May 1807
14 Nov 1841 8 James Bruce 20 Jul 1811 20 Nov 1863 52
Created Baron Elgin [UK] 13 Nov 1849
MP for Southampton 1841. Governor
of Jamaica 1842-1846. Governor General
of Canada 1846-1854 and India 1862-1863
Lord Lieutenant Fife 1854-1863. Postmaster
General 1859.  KT 1847  PC 1857
20 Nov 1863 9 Victor Alexander Bruce 16 May 1849 18 Jan 1917 67
First Commissioner of Works 1886. Viceroy
of India 1894-1899. Secretary of State for
Colonies 1905-1908.  Lord Lieutenant Fife
1886-1917. PC 1886  KG 1899
18 Jan 1917 10 Edward James Bruce 8 Jun 1881 27 Nov 1968 87
Lord Lieutenant Fife 1935-1965. KT 1933
27 Nov 1968 11 Andrew Douglas Alexander Bruce 17 Feb 1924
KT 1981  Lord Lieutenant Fife 1987-1999
ELIBANK
18 Mar 1643 B[S] 1 Sir Patrick Murray,1st baronet 12 Nov 1649
Created Lord Elibank 18 Mar 1643
12 Nov 1649 2 Patrick Murray 13 Feb 1661
13 Feb 1661 3 Patrick Murray 1687
1687 4 Alexander Murray 9 Mar 1677 6 Feb 1736 58
6 Feb 1736 5 Patrick Murray 27 Feb 1703 3 Aug 1778 75
3 Aug 1778 6 George Murray 14 May 1706 12 Nov 1785 79
12 Nov 1785 7 Alexander Murray 24 Apr 1747 24 Sep 1820 73
MP for Peebles 1783-1785. Lord Lieutenant
Peebles 1794-1820
24 Sep 1820 8 Alexander Murray 26 Feb 1780 9 Apr 1830 50
9 Apr 1830 9 Alexander Oliphant-Murray 23 May 1804 31 May 1871 67
31 May 1871 10 Montolieu Fox Oliphant-Murray 27 Apr 1840 20 Feb 1927 86
3 Jul 1911 V 1 Created Viscount Elibank 3 Jul 1911
Lord Lieutenant Peebles 1896-1908
20 Feb 1927 11 Gideon Oliphant-Murray 7 Aug 1877 11 Mar 1951 73
2 MP for St.Rollox 1918-1922. Lord
Lieutenant Peebles 1934-1945
11 Mar 1951 12 Arthur Cecil Murray 27 Mar 1879 5 Dec 1962 83
to    3 MP for Kincardineshire 1908-1923
5 Dec 1962 On his death the Viscountcy became extinct
whilst the Barony passed to -
5 Dec 1962 13 James Alastair Frederick Campbell
Erskine-Murray 23 Jun 1902 2 Jun 1973 70
2 Jun 1973 14 Alan D'Ardis Erskine-Murray 31 Dec 1923
ELIOT OF ST.GERMANS
13 Jan 1784 B 1 Edward Eliot 8 Jul 1727 17 Feb 1804 76
Created Baron Eliot of St.Germans 13 Jan 1784
MP for St Germans 1748-1768 and 1774-1775,
Liskeard 1768-1774 and Cornwall 1775-1784
17 Feb 1804 2 John Eliot 30 Sep 1761 17 Nov 1823 62
Created Earl of St.Germans (qv) 28 Nov 1815
See "St.Germans"
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14 Sep 1870 William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot 14 Dec 1829 19 Mar 1881 51
He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of
Acceleration as Baron Eliot 14 Sep 1870
He succeeded as Earl of St.Germans (qv) in 1877
ELIS-THOMAS
18 Sep 1992 B[L] 1 Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas 18 Oct 1946
Created Baron Elis-Thomas for life
18 Sep 1992
MP for Merioneth 1974-1983 and Merionnydd
Nant Conwy 1983-1992
ELLENBOROUGH
19 Apr 1802 B 1 Edward Law 16 Nov 1750 13 Dec 1818 68
Created Baron Ellenborough
19 Apr 1802
MP for Newtown 1801-1802. Attorney
General 1801. Lord Chief Justice 1802-1818
PC 1802
13 Dec 1818 2 Edward Law 8 Sep 1790 22 Dec 1871 81
22 Oct 1844 E 1 Created Viscount Southam and Earl of
to    Ellenborough 22 Oct 1844
22 Dec 1871 MP for St.Michaels 1813-1818. Lord Privy
Seal 1828-1829. President of the Board of
Control 1834-1835, 1841 and 1858.
Governor General of India 1841-1844
First Lord of the Admiralty 1846  PC 1828
For further information on the Earl's second wife,
see the note at the foot of this page.
On his death the Earldom became extinct
whilst the Barony passed to -
22 Dec 1871 3 Charles Edmund Towry-Law 17 Nov 1820 9 Oct 1890 69
9 Oct 1890 4 Charles Towry Hamilton Law 21 Apr 1856 26 Jun 1902 46
26 Jun 1902 5 Edward Downes Law 9 May 1841 9 Dec 1915 74
9 Dec 1915 6 Cecil Henry Law 25 Nov 1849 22 Jan 1931 81
22 Jan 1931 7 Henry Astell Law 11 Jul 1889 19 May 1945 55
19 May 1945 8 Richard Edward Cecil Law 14 Jan 1926
ELLES
2 May 1972 B[L] 1 Diana Louie Elles 19 Jul 1921 17 Oct 2009 88
to    Created Baroness Elles for life 2 May 1972
17 Oct 2009 Peerage extinct on her death
ELLESMERE
21 Jul 1603 B 1 Thomas Egerton 1540 15 Mar 1617 76
Created Baron Ellesmere 21 Jul 1603
and Viscount Brackley 7 Nov 1616
See "Brackley"
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6 Jul 1846 E 1 Lord Francis Egerton 1 Jan 1800 18 Feb 1857 57
Created Viscount Brackley and Earl of
Ellesmere 6 Jul 1846
MP for Bletchingley 1822-1826,
Sutherlandshire 1826-1831 and Lancashire
South 1835-1846. Lord Lieutenant
Lancashire 1855-1857.  PC 1828  PC [I] 1828
KG 1855
For information about the "Great Ellesmere Jewel
Robbery" of 1856,see the note at the foot of
this page
18 Feb 1857 2 George Granville Francis Egerton 15 Jun 1823 19 Sep 1862 39
MP for Staffordshire North 1847-1851
19 Sep 1862 3 Francis Charles Granville Egerton 5 Apr 1847 13 Jul 1914 67
13 Jul 1914 4 John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton 14 Nov 1872 24 Aug 1944 71
24 Aug 1944 5 John Sutherland Egerton 10 May 1915
He succeeded as Duke of Sutherland (qv)
in 1963 with which title this peerage then
merged -
ELLIOT OF HARWOOD
26 Sep 1958 B[L] 1 Katharine Elliot 15 Jan 1903 3 Jan 1994 90
to    Created Baroness Elliot of Harwood
3 Jan 1994 26 Sep 1958
Peerage extinct on her death
ELLIOTT OF MORPETH
16 May 1985 B[L] 1 Robert William Elliott 11 Dec 1920
Created Baron Elliott of Morpeth
16 May 1985
MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North 1957-
1983
ELMLEY
1 Dec 1815 V 1 William Lygon,Baron Beauchamp 25 Jul 1747 21 Oct 1816 69
Created Viscount Elmley and Earl
Beauchamp 1 Dec 1815
See "Beauchamp"
ELPHINSTONE
14 Jan 1509 B[S] 1 Alexander Elphinstone 9 Sep 1513
Created Lord Elphinstone 14 Jan 1509
9 Sep 1513 2 Alexander Elphinstone 22 May 1510 10 Sep 1547 37
10 Sep 1547 3 Robert Elphinstone 9 Sep 1530 18 May 1602 71
18 May 1602 4 Alexander Elphinstone 28 May 1552 11 Jan 1638 85
11 Jan 1638 5 Alexander Elphinstone 13 Nov 1577 27 Aug 1648 70
27 Aug 1648 6 Alexander Elphinstone Dec 1654
Dec 1654 7 Alexander Elphinstone 30 Mar 1647 11 May 1669 22
11 May 1669 8 John Elphinstone 28 Aug 1649 24 Mar 1718 68
24 Mar 1718 9 Charles Elphinstone 6 Dec 1676 20 Feb 1757 80
20 Feb 1757 10 Charles Elphinstone 6 Aug 1711 2 Apr 1781 69
2 Apr 1781 11 John Elphinstone 26 Jan 1737 19 Aug 1794 57
Lord Lieutenant Dumbarton Mar-Aug 1794
19 Aug 1794 12 John Elphinstone 1764 20 May 1813 48
Lord Lieutenant Dumbarton 1794-1813
20 May 1813 13 John Elphinstone 23 Jun 1807 19 Jul 1860 53
21 May 1859 B 1 Created Baron Elphinstone [UK]
to    21 May 1859
19 Jul 1860 On his death the creation of 1859 became
extinct whilst the 1509 creation
passed to -
19 Jul 1860 14 John Elphinstone-Fleeming 11 Dec 1819 13 Jan 1861 41
13 Jan 1861 15 William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone 18 Nov 1828 18 Jan 1893 64
30 Dec 1885 B 1 Created Baron Elphinstone [UK]
30 Dec 1885
18 Jan 1893 16 Sidney Herbert Elphinstone 27 Jul 1869 28 Nov 1955 86
  KT 1928
28 Nov 1955 17 John Alexander Elphinstone 22 Mar 1914 15 Nov 1975 61
 
15 Nov 1975 18 James Alexander Elphinstone 22 Apr 1953 19 Dec 1994 41
 
19 Dec 1994 19 Alexander Mountstuart Elphinstone 15 Apr 1980
 
ELTHAM
26 Jul 1726 E 1 Frederick Lewis 20 Jan 1707 20 Mar 1751 44
Created Baron of Snowdon,Viscount
of Launceston,Earl of Eltham,
Marquess of the Isle of Ely and Duke
of Edinburgh 26 Jul 1726
See "Edinburgh"
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16 Jul 1917 M 1 Adolphus Charles Alexander Ladislaus
Cambridge 13 Aug 1868 24 Oct 1927 59
Created Viscount Northallerton,Earl
of Eltham and Marquess of Cambridge
16 Jul 1917
See "Cambridge"
ELTISLEY
15 Jan 1934 B 1 George Douglas Cochrane Newton 14 Jul 1879 2 Sep 1942 63
to    Created Baron Eltisley 15 Jan 1934
2 Sep 1942 MP for Cambridge 1922-1934
Peerage extinct on his death
ELTON
16 Jan 1934 B 1 Godfrey Elton 29 Mar 1892 18 Apr 1973 81
Created Baron Elton 16 Jan 1934
18 Apr 1973 2 Rodney Elton 2 Mar 1930
ELVEDON
30 Sep 1919 V 1 Edward Cecil Guinness,Viscount Iveagh 10 Nov 1847 7 Oct 1927 79
Created Viscount Elvedon and Earl of
Iveagh 30 Sep 1919
See "Iveagh"
ELWORTHY
9 May 1972 B[L] 1 Samuel Charles Elworthy 23 Mar 1911 4 Apr 1993 82
to    Created Baron Elworthy 9 May 1972
4 Apr 1993 Marshal of the RAF 1967.  KG 1977. Lord
Lieutenant Greater London 1973-1978. Chief of
the Defence Staff 1967-1971
Peerage extinct on his death
ELWYN-JONES
11 Mar 1974 B[L] 1 Frederick Elwyn Elwyn-Jones 24 Oct 1909 4 Dec 1989 80
to    Created Baron Elwyn-Jones 11 Mar 1974
4 Dec 1989 MP for Plaistow 1945-1950, West Ham South
1950-1974 and Newham South 1974. Attorney
General 1964-1970. Lord Chancellor 1974-
1979  PC 1964  CH 1976
Peerage extinct on his death
ELY
10 May 1622 V[I] 1 Sir Adam Loftus 1568 1646 78
Created Viscount Loftus of Ely
10 May 1622
Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1619-1638
1646 2 Edward Loftus 1599 11 Apr 1680 80
Lord Lieutenant Kildare
11 Apr 1680 3 Arthur Loftus 18 Jun 1644 6 Nov 1725 81
to    Peerage extinct on his death
6 Nov 1725
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19 Jul 1756 V[I] 1 Nicholas Loftus c 1687 31 Dec 1763
Created Baron Loftus 5 Nov 1751 and
Viscount Loftus of Ely 19 Jul 1756
PC [I] 1753
31 Dec 1763 2 Nicholas Hume-Loftus 1714 31 Oct 1766 52
23 Oct 1766 E[I] 1 Created Earl of Ely 23 Oct 1766
Lord Lieutenant Wexford 1764.  PC [I] 1764
31 Oct 1766 3 Nicholas Hume-Loftus 11 Sep 1738 12 Nov 1769 31
to    2 On his death the Earldom became extinct
12 Nov 1769 but the Viscountcy passed to -
12 Nov 1769 4 Henry Loftus 18 Nov 1709 8 May 1783 73
2 Dec 1771 E[I] 1 Created Earl of Ely 2 Dec 1771
to    PC [I] 1771  KP 1783
8 May 1783 Peerages extinct on his death
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29 Dec 1800 M[I] 1 Sir Charles Tottenham Loftus,2nd baronet 23 Jan 1738 22 Mar 1806 68
Created Baron Loftus 28 Jun 1785,
Viscount Loftus of Ely 28 Dec 1789,
Earl of Ely 2 Mar 1794,Marquess of
Ely 29 Dec 1800 and Baron Loftus [uk]
19 Jan 1801
PC [I] 1783  KP 1794
22 Mar 1806 2 John Loftus 15 Feb 1770 26 Sep 1845 75
MP for Wexford 1802-1806.  KP 1807
PC [I] 1800
26 Sep 1845 3 John Henry Loftus 19 Jan 1814 15 Jul 1857 43
MP for Woodstock 1845
15 Jul 1857 4 John Henry Wellington Graham Loftus 20 Nov 1849  3 Apr 1889 39
3 Apr 1889 5 John Henry Loftus 6 Mar 1851 18 Dec 1925 74
18 Dec 1925 6 George Herbert Loftus 19 Apr 1854 10 Apr 1935 80
10 Apr 1935 7 George Henry Wellington Loftus 3 Sep 1903 31 May 1969 65
31 May 1969 8 John Charles Tottenham Loftus 30 May 1913 1 Feb 2006 92
1 Feb 2006 9 Charles John Tottenham Loftus 2 Feb 1943
ELYSTAN-MORGAN
27 May 1981 B[L] 1 Dafydd Elystan Morgan 7 Dec 1932
Created Baron Elystan-Morgan
27 May 1981
MP for Cardiganshire 1966-1974
EMERTON
17 Feb 1997 B[L] 1 Audrey Caroline Emerton 10 Sep 1935
Created Baroness Emerton 17 Feb 1997
EMLY
12 Jan 1874 B 1 William Monsell 21 Sep 1812 20 Apr 1894 81
Created Baron Emly 12 Jan 1874
MP for Limerick 1847-1874. President of the
Board of Health 1857. Vice President of the
Board of Trade 1866. Postmaster General
1870-1873. Lord Lieutenant Limerick 1871-1894
PC 1855
20 Apr 1894 2 Thomas William Gaston Monsell 5 Mar 1858 24 Nov 1932 74
to    Peerage extinct on his death
24 Nov 1932
Susannah Kennedy, 3rd wife of the 9th Earl of Eglinton
Susanna Kennedy was the daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy, of Culzean, who had been created
a baronet in 1682. Around June 1709, she married, as his third wife, Alexander Montgomerie,
9th Earl of Eglinton.
She was one of the great beauties of the 18th century. The Countess, who died in 1780 at an
advanced age, claimed that she had never received true gratitude except from animals,
particularly rats. It is said that she kept hundreds of rats, summoning them to the dining room
at meal times by tapping on an oak panel. When they heard the tapping, dozens of rats would
appear from the woodwork and join her at table. After dinner, at a quiet word of command, the
rats would retire in an orderly fashion.
Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton
The 10th Earl of Eglinton was fatally wounded by Mungo Campbell in October 1769. The
following account of the affair is taken from the Newgate Calendar.
'The unhappy subject of this narrative was protected by an uncle, who gave him a learned
education; but this generous friend died when the youth was about eighteen years of age,
leaving him sixty pounds, and earnestly recommending him to the care of his other relations.
The young man was a finished scholar, yet seemed averse to making the choice of any of the
learned professions. His attachment appeared to be to the military life, in which line many of
his ancestors had most gloriously distinguished themselves.
'Mr. Campbell entered as a cadet in the royal regiment of Scots Greys, then commanded by a
relation, General Campbell, and served during two campaigns at his own expense, in the fond
hope of military preferment.
'After the battle of Dettingen [in 1743], at which he assisted, he had an opportunity of being
appointed quartermaster if he could have raised one hundred pounds, but this place was
bestowed on another person while Campbell was making fruitless application for the money.
 
'Thus disappointed of what he thought a reasonable expectation, he quitted the army and
went into Scotland, where he arrived at the juncture when the rebels had quitted Edinburgh,
in 1745, Lord Loudoun having then the command of loyal Highlanders, who exerted so much
bravery in the suppression of the Rebellion; and Mr. Campbell, having the honour to be related
to his lordship, went and fought under him with a bravery that did equal credit to his loyalty
and courage.
'Not long after the decisive battle of Culloden, Lord Loudoun procured his kinsman to be
appointed an officer of the excise, and prevailed on the commissioners to station him in the
shire of Ayr, that he might have the happiness of residing near his friends and relations.
'In the discharge of his new duty Mr. Campbell behaved with strict integrity to the Crown, yet
with so much civility as to conciliate the affections of all those with whom he had any
transactions. He married when he was somewhat advanced in life, and so unexceptionable was
his whole conduct that all the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood (the Earl of Eglinton
excepted) gave him permission to kill game on their estates. However, he was very moderate
in the use of this indulgence, seldom shooting but with a view to gratify a friend with a present;
hardly ever for his own emolument.
 
'Mr. Campbell had a singular attachment to fishing; and, a river in Lord Eglinton's estate
affording the finest fish in that country, he would willingly have angled there, but his lordship
being as strict with regard to his fish as his game, Campbell, unwilling to offend him, gave away
his fishing-tackle, which was excellent in its kind. He was likewise in possession of a fine pointer,
which he sold; but would not part with his gun, which produced him the greatest pleasure of
his life.
'Campbell, being in search of smugglers, and having his gun with him, was crossing part of Lord
Eglinton's estate when a hare started up, and he shot her. His lordship hearing the report of the
gun, and being informed that Campbell had fired it, sent a servant to command him to come to
the seat. Campbell obeyed the disagreeable summons, but was treated very cavalierly by his
lordship, who even descended to call him by names of contempt. The other apologised for his
conduct, which he said arose from the sudden starting of the hare, and declared that he had no
design of giving offence. This might have been a sufficient apology to any other man than Lord
Eglinton.
 
'A man named Bartleymore was among the servants of Lord Eglinton, and was a favourite of his
lordship, and this man dealt largely in contraband goods. Mr. Campbell passing along the
seashore, met Bartleymore with a cart containing eighty gallons of rum, which he seized as
contraband; and the rum was condemned, but the cart was restored, being the property of
Lord Eglinton.
 
'In this affair it will appear evident that Mr. Campbell did not exceed his duty; but Bartleymore
was so incensed against him that he contrived many tales to his disadvantage, and at length
engaged his lordship's passions so far that he conceived a more unfavourable opinion of
Campbell than he had hitherto done.
'About ten in the morning of the 24th of October, 1769, Campbell took his gun and went out
with another officer with a view to detecting smugglers. Mr. Campbell took with him a licence
for shooting, which had been given him by Dr. Hunter, though he had no particular design of
killing any game, but intended to shoot a woodcock if he should see one.
 
'They crossed a small part of Lord Eglinton's estate, in order to reach the seashore, where
they intended to walk. When they arrived at this spot it was near noon, and Lord Eglinton came
up in his coach, attended by Mr. Wilson, a carpenter, and followed by four servants on
horseback. On approaching the coast his lordship met Bartleymore who told him there were
some poachers at a distance, and that Campbell was among them. Lord Eglinton quitted his
coach and, mounting a led horse, rode to the spot, where he saw Campbell and the other
officer whose name was Brown. His lordship said: "Mr. Campbell, I did not expect to have found
you so soon again on my grounds, after your promise when you shot the hare." He then
demanded Campbell's gun, which the latter declared he would not part with.
 
'Lord Eglinton now rode towards him, while Campbell retreated, with his gun presented, desiring
him to keep at a distance. Still, however, his lordship advanced, smiling, and said: "Are you
going to shoot me?" Campbell replied: "I will, if you do not keep off." Hereupon Lord Eglinton
called to his servants to bring him a gun, which one of them took from the coach, and delivered
to another to carry to their master.
 
'In the interim Lord Eglinton, leading his horse, approached Mr. Campbell and demanded his gun,
but the latter would not deliver it. The peer then quitted his horse's bridle and continued
advancing, while Campbell still retired, though in an irregular direction, and pointed his gun
towards his pursuer.
'At length Lord Eglinton came so near him that Campbell said: "I beg your pardon, my lord, but
I will not deliver my gun to any man living, therefore keep off, or I will certainly shoot you." At
this instant Bartleymore, advancing, begged Campbell to deliver his gun to Lord Eglinton, but
the latter answered he would not, for he "had a right to carry a gun."
 
'His lordship did not dispute his general right, but said that he could not have any to carry it
on his estate without his permission. Campbell again begged pardon, and still continued
retreating, but with his gun in his hand, and preparing to fire in his own defence. While he was
thus walking backwards his heel struck against a stone and he fell, when he was about the
distance of three yards from his pursuer. Lord Eglinton observed him fall on his back, and
stepped forward, as if he would have passed by Campbell's feet. The latter, observing this,
reared himself on his elbow, and lodged the contents of his piece in the left side of his lordship's
body.
 
'A contest now ensued, during which Bartleymore repeatedly struck Campbell. Being observed by
Lord Eglinton, he called out: "Do not use him ill." Campbell, being secured, was conducted to the 
wounded man, then lying on the ground, who said: "Mr. Campbell, I would not have shot you."
But Campbell made no answer. His hands were tied behind him, and he was conducted to the
town of Saltcoats, the place of his former station as an exciseman.
'Lord Eglinton dying, after languishing ten hours, Mr. Campbell was, on the following day.
committed to the prison of Ayr, and the next month removed to Edinburgh, in preparation for
his trial before the High Court of Justiciary. The trial commenced on the 27th of Fenraury,1770,
and the jury having found Mr. Campbell guilty he was sentenced to die.
 
'On his return to prison he was visited by several of his friends, among whom he behaved with
apparently decent cheerfulness, and, retiring to his apartment, he begged the favour of a visit
from them on the following day. But in the morning he was found dead, hanging to the end of a
form which he had set upright, with a silk handkerchief round his neck.
''The following lines were found upon the floor, close to the body:-
 
'"Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee,
And now am careless what thou say'st of me,
Thy smiles I count not, nor thy frowns I fear,
My cares are past, my heart lies easy here,
What faults they find in me take care to shun,
And look at home, enough is to be done." '
Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton
Archibald Montgomerie was only 7 when he succeeded his grandfather as the 13th Earl of
Eglinton, together with the title's enormous wealth. He grew up a romantic, high-spirited youth,
arrogantly proud of his birth and with a taste for hunting, steeplechasing and devouring
medieval chronicles. In politics, he was a violent Tory, regarding the Reform Bill and the
Industrial Revolution as unmitigated disasters. He became a man with a mission, determined to
revive the ideals of chivalry among the younger aristocracy before it was too late.
The result was the Eglinton Tournament, staged at Eglinton Castle, a vast imitation Gothic
mansion built by his grandfather on his Scottish estate in Ayrshire.
In March 1839, he sent out invitations to his intended guests, all peers, or sons or
relations of peers. Each recipient was invited to appear in authentic armour and test their
prowess with sword and lance in the lists at Eglinton Castle. The knights were summoned to
assemble at the Castle on 28 August 1839, bringing with them their womenfolk and retinues
of squires, grooms and servants, all dressed in appropriate medieval garb. Many of Eglinton's
noble friends tore up the invitation cards in derision. Some branded the scheme 'senseless
ostentation' and 'childish buffoonery.' Eventually, only about 15 accepted the summons, but
Eglinton was not dismayed, for they included people with the bluest blood in the land, if
not the brightest minds.
The 'Mad Marquess' of Waterford, notorious for his brawls with draymen in the streets of
London, announced that he had purchased a costly suit of German armour specially for the
occasion. The Earl of Craven resurrected a magnificent suit of Milanese armour, inlaid with
gold, that an ancestor had worn at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. The helmet alone weighed
more than 40 lb. Country houses were ransacked for armour and weapons that had rusted
unused for generations. Others scoured the Continent for suitable equipment. The richer
peers lavished fortunes on dressing themselves, their wives and troops of followers. The
Marchioness of Londonderry was reputed to have spent £1,000 on three velvet and brocade
gowns.
Meanwhile 200 workmen toiled to transform the park of Eglinton Castle into a setting worthy of
knightly pomp. Adjoining the Castle, there rose a sumptuous banqueting pavilion 350 feet long,
hung with tapestries and crimson cloths. Each knight had a private pavilion with his banner
floating above it. The enclosure for the jousting was 300 yards long and a five-foot wooden
barrier down the centre to prevent the horses colliding as the knights rode headlong at each
other with their lances. In the main grandstand, which held 1500 spectators, was the damask-
canopied seat of the Queen of Beauty, who was to present prizes to the winning knights.
By July, Eglinton was ready to announce the names of the chief officials and their high-flown
titles. The Queen of Beauty was the young Lady Seymour, wife to the heir to the Duke of
Somerset - an appointment that caused acrimonious squabbles among the less fortunate
contenders. The King of the Lists was the Marquess of Londonderry, Lord Saltoun was the
Judge of the Lists and Sir Charles Lamb was Knight Marshal, with the task of ensuring that the
combats did not become too realistic. Included among the knights were Viscount Alford [son
of Earl Brownlow], the Earls of Cassilis and Craven, Viscount Glenlyon [later Duke of Atholl],
the Marquess of Waterford and assorted sprigs of the aristocracy.
By now the tournament had become a national sensation. London newspapers reported the
preparations in stories of rumour and gossip that stirred up the populace into violently opposed
factions. Some regarded the tournament as the harmless whim of a half-mad nobleman; others
passionately attacked it as the crowning example of aristocratic folly and arrogance. In
Scotland, dour Presbyterian parsons prayed for rain to ruin the ungodly spectacle. Radicals
prophesied that hungry mobs from Glasgow would descend upon Eglinton and tear the Castle
down about its owner's head. In London, excitement was kept alive by practice bouts staged
by some of the knights in a field behind a tavern.
By mid-July, thousands of gaping Londoners were gathering each day to watch these practice
sessions. By now the knights had been joined by the exiled Prince Louis Napoleon of France
[later Emperor Napoleon III] and the Hungarian Baron Esterhazy, whom Eglinton had invited to
uphold the honour of Europe in the lists. Newspapers gleefully reported that the spectators
had burst into roars of laughter when Prince Louis tumbled off his horse and rolled on the
grass in his unwieldy armour like a capsized beetle.
It was estimated that by 25 August, three days before the tournament, 50,000 people had
swarmed into the neighbourhood of Eglinton Castle. They filled every inn for miles around, and
many camped in the Castle park. Most were respectable folk, although one observer lamented
that every pickpocket from London to Glasgow had gathered for the harvest. On 26 August,
the knights and their retainers began arriving and the huge crowd watched with emotions
ranging from awe to derision as each pageant wound its way through the park to the Castle.
The Marquess of Waterford was followed by 20 squires in black and silver livery; Viscount
Glenlyon led a band of 70 Highlanders armed with claymores.
But, after all the grand preparations, the tournament itself was a dismal anti-climax. Rain
began to fall and continued throughout the four days of the program.  Hooves soon churned
the ground into a quagmire. The horses slithered and skidded wildly as they charged up the
lists. The armour-clad knights were plastered with mud from visor to spur. But Eglinton and
the other participants refused to be dismayed, with heralds splashing between the pavilions
bearing challenges and pair after pair rode out to tilt in the lists. In their concern for safety,
the tournament officials had insisted that the lances be flimsy wooden poles. As a result,
no knight was unhorsed and catcalls of boredom rose from the spectators as the lances
splintered harmlessly against the knights' armour.
On the last day Eglinton tried to enliven the proceedings by a 'Grand Equestrian Free for All'
in which four Scottish champions challenged four Englishmen to combat with blunted broad-
swords. By this time, tempers among the mud-spattered knights had also become frayed.
Before long they were hacking at each other in earnest, to the delight of the few remaining
onlookers. The Marquess of Waterford reeled in his saddle with a gashed shoulder and the
Hon. Edward Jerningham [son of Baron Stafford] left the field with blood streaming down his
arm before the Knight Marshal managed to ride into the fray and separate the rest of the
combatants.
That was the final act of the Eglinton Tournament. Even the sumptuous banquet had to be
abandoned because rain had flooded the outdoor pavilion. It was estimated that the whole
exercise had cost the Earl between £30,000 and £40,000. For the rest of his life, Eglinton
spent his time in politics and horse-racing, where he found jockeys in silks far more rewarding
than knights in armour.
The Earls of Egmont
This family, which appears to have had more than its fair share of bad luck, includes a number
of interesting individuals, including
Henry Frederick Joseph James Perceval, 5th Earl of Egmont - according to tradition, the
5th Earl of Egmont was appealed to by a widow on his estates in the south of Ireland to
postpone her eviction owing to the fact that her only son was dangerously ill. However, the
Earl was relentless, and had the widow and her son thrown out onto the roadside, where the
sick son died a few hours later as a result of exposure and the rough treatment to which he
had been subjected.
The widow went down upon her knees by the body of her son and cursed the Earl, praying that
neither he or his successors would ever have a son given to them to inherit the peerage.
Whether it is coincidental or not, the 5th Earl died childless and was succeeded by his cousin,
the 6th Earl, who also died childless. He was succeeded by his nephew, the 7th Earl, who died
childless, to be succeeded by his cousin, the 8th Earl, who also died childless. He, in turn, was
succeeded by his brother, the 9th Earl. He, too, died childless in 1929, when the Earldom
became dormant for a period, until the 11th Earl established his claim in 1939. The 11th Earl
was the son of the de jure 10th Earl, a distant kinsman of the 9th Earl; it appears that by this
time the effect of the widow's curse had worn off, although it should be noted that the current
Earl has no children (although he appears to have an adopted son), and that the peerage will
become extinct on his death.
Spencer Perceval - he was the seventh son of the 2nd Earl and, on 11 May 1812, became the
only British Prime Minister to be assassinated.
Henry Godfrey Perceval - cousin of the 7th Earl, who fell victim to foul play in America in
1884. The following report is from the 'Liverpool Mercury' of 29 October 1884:-
Mr. F. Lennard Shaw, writing from Lone Tree, Nance County, Nebraska, says: - "This is a correct
account of the tragedy enacted on September 29 [1884] near Fullerton, Nance County,
Nebraska. All that is known of the following murders I will give in as few words as possible, for
the sake of the relatives and friends of the deceased, who were English. On Tuesday morning,
the 30th of September, two insurance agents went up to Henry Perceval's farm and thence to
George Furnivall's, but finding both houses locked up they returned to Fullerton and called again
at Perceval's on Thursday; but everything being in the same state as on Tuesday, and a fearful
smell coming from the house, they suspected foul play, and started in quest of more men to
investigate the matter. I was one of these men, being a near neighbour, and on Thursday night
several of us started off to Perceval's and managed to get through a window. In one room we
found Perceval's wife [Mary Cornelia, nee Tanner] and child [Ellen Mary] in bed, shot. Perceval
and Baird (a man boarding there) could not be found, but eventually, by the aid of a stable
lamp, Perceval was discovered at the butt of a haystack, shot in the head and breast. We
then went to Furnivall's house, and in a room upstairs found Mayer (Furnivall's partner) in bed,
shot. Furnivall and Baird were still missing. The next morning (Friday) people from all quarters
helped to search the prairie, and at last found a body in the creek, which was identified as
Baird's. About fifteen of us on horseback scoured the prairie for miles and dragged the creek,
three of us diving the deep pools, but with no result. Furnivall is still missing and is believed
to be murdered. One of Perceval's horses was ridden into Fullerton on the morning of the 30th
by a stranger, who put it up at Roberts's stables, and caught the first train; he has since been
tracked to Council Bluffs. No motive for these horrible deeds can be alleged, as Perceval,
Furnivall, Baird and Mayer were quiet, inoffensive young fellows. The weapons used were a
38-calibre, a 22 revolver, and a shot gun. I knew Perceval and Furnivall intimately, having sailed
with them from England; and if any of the relatives or friends of the murdered people wish for
further particulars I shall be glad to answer any inquiries in my power."
Augustus Arthur Perceval, 8th Earl of Egmont - the following is an extract from the 'Chicago
Daily Tribune' of 29 May 1910:-
'Lord Egmont….had a varied career before he succeeded to the earldom and to the historic
Cowdray estates in Sussex, which he sold a year ago for a large sum to Sir Weetman Pearson,
a millionaire contractor from America. Born in New Zealand, Lord Egmont received his education
on the training ship Worcester on the Thames , but, failing to graduate as mate in the merchant
marine, he shipped as a sailor before the mast. Tiring of the sea he joined the London fire
brigade as a fireman, married an American girl, a Miss Kate Howell of South Carolina, who was
earning her living as a barmaid at the Sloane Square station on the underground railroad, and
then got employment as janitor of the Chelsea town hall. He lost his berth there through having
been led by his pronounced Tory sympathies to turn the hose upon the members of a Radical
political meeting being held in the hall.
'Then he worked as a labourer in a salt mine in Cheshire and was a sergeant of the Natal police
when the death of a remote cousin sent him home to England as eighth Earl of Egmont and as
chief of the historic house of Percival [sic] which figures so largely in the annals of England…'
Frederick Joseph Trevelyan Perceval, 10th Earl of Egmont - the following is an extract
from the "Chicago Daily Tribune' of 17 May 1932:-
'The Earl of Egmont, a Canadian cowpuncher who became an English peer through the death
of a cousin three years ago, died in a hospital…early today [16 May] as the result of injuries
received in an automobile accident. The smashup occurred while he was driving to Avon Castle,
where he lived with his 17 year old heir, Viscount Perceval. He was 59 years old.
'The Earl was "out with a bunch of cattle" near Priddis, Alberta, when his cousin died. He
returned to learn he was a chief contender to the title. After some hesitation he finally entered
a claim and was awarded the title two years ago. [This is not correct - he was awarded the
Egmont estates in July 1930, but the descent of the titles was not established until 1939]
'He was a misfit for the English peerage from the beginning. He had emigrated to Canada forty-
four years before his elevation to the earldom and always lived in western Canada. "The
prospect of adoptin the life of an English peer did not appeal to me greatly at first," he said
when he reached England, "but I realize the obligations to be fulfilled and I am not going to
shirk them altogether." He later admitted he "would rather be chopping wood."
Frederick George Moore Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont - the following obituary appeared
in the London 'Telegraph' on 2 Jan 2002:-
The 11th Earl of Egmont, who has died in Alberta aged 87, became one of the Peerage's most
romantic figures at the age of 15 when he reluctantly moved from a two-room prairie shack to
Avon Castle, Hampshire, on his father's inheritance of the earldom.
Members of a junior branch of the Perceval family which had emigrated to Iowa and then
Alberta in ther late 19th century, the boy and his widowed father "bached" togther on a 600-
acre ranch at Priddis, near Calgary.
Wearing chaps, boots and stetsons, they contentedly built up a herd of cattle, chopped their
own wood and cooked their own meals. Then on January 12, 1929 Lord Beaverbrook, the former
owner of a Calgary bowling alley, ordered a Daily Express reporter in London to inform the father
of his good fortune.
"This is the first I have heard of it," replied the 56-year-old 10th Earl when he was brought to a
telephone station. "I have been out with a bunch of cattle for the past few days and have just
got in."
His son Frederick George Moore Perceval, who was born at Calgary on April 14 1914, now had
the courtesy title Viscount Perceval; however, he was unimpressed by the change in the family
fortunes.
"You taught me to read and write and you taught me to ride and shoot," he told his father,
"We've got a nice home here, and I don't want to leave it."
But the shack had pictures of English scenes on the walls, and they had often talked of the
inheritance that might one day be theirs. After a sale of their effects in which the boy's two
mongrels, Jack and Rummy, made 25 cents each and his saddle pony, Pat, $3.25, they set off.
Already local reporters were so persistent that they decided to depart from a small station
outside Calgary. As the pair boarded ship at Montreal the father and son swapped their stetsons
for caps.
When they landed in England they found themselves besieged all day and late at night for weeks.
Even apart from their unfamiliarity with metropolitan life, the weatherbeaten 'cowboy earl' and
his son with their western drawls, were of abiding interest to the press because of their
genealogy.
An estate agent worked out that around £300,000 went with the Irish Earldom of Egmont, the
Viscountcy of Perceval of Kanturk and the Barony of Arden of Arden, Co Cork as well as the
Barony of Lovel and Holland in the United Kingdom.
The inheritance came through their descent from Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister
assassinated at Westminster in 1812 who was the seventh son of the 2nd Earl.
The new Earl and his son excited a fresh round of press interest when their claim to both the
land and titles were disputed by two other equally colourful claimants; a Hornsey baker, who
said he had been born in Australia as the son of the sixth Earl's brother, and a retired
Lancastrian optician.
Both cases were dismissed in court, but when debts and death duties necessitated the sale of
silver and pictures, including a little-known Reynolds and a Beechey, the optician caused a
sensation at Christie's by objecting at the top of his voice on the grounds that they belonged
to him.
To add to the confusion, the House of Lords did not formally recognise the father's and son's
claim until 1939. But they were able to move into Avon Castle, with its private railway halt and
1,300 acres at Ringwood, Hampshire, seven months after their arrival.
By then the Earl was thoroughly bemused by the England he had not seen since the age of six,
and his son was firmly for returning to Priddis. Instead, they dismissed the servants and moved
into the huge kitchen to re-create their Albertan self-sufficiency.
The gates were closed; the house shuttered; overtures from county neighbours were rebuffed.
The new Earl got on well enough with the villagers he met in the pub and local shop, though he
didn't care for the way they always called him "sir."
He talked about sending his son to Oxford, but the boy showed no sign of continuing his
schooling and was left largely to his own lonely devices.
The young Lord Perceval occasionally played with other boys in Ringwood but was more often to
be seen riding alone on his bicycle; later he bought a motorcycle which he enjoyed riding late at 
night along deserted roads at up to 85 mph.
The Earl continued to be of abiding interest to the press which dubbed him "the loneliest peer in
England"; then fate intervened when he was killed in a motor accident in Southampton.
While the villagers spoke up for their kindly, shy neighbour, the Sunday Express's theatre critic,
James Agate, excoriated county society: "Doubtless the late earl's accent and manners may,
like his boots, have been a shade too thick for the fine carpets of Hampshire. Doubtless he was
no master of small talk, because on an Alberta ranch, if you talk at all, the subjects will probably
be pretty big. They may kittle cattle but they certainly won't be tittle tattle."
The local MP wrote in reply that efforts had been made to get to know the lonely peer. But the
18-year-old new Earl did not wait to give local society a second chance. He put the estate on
the market and set out for Canada.
On encountering a Calgary journalist on the train at Winnipeg his first questions were about the
present owner of his saddle-pony and the date of the annual Stampede.
After kitting himself out with saddle and chaps, the young Egmont set out for Priddis whose
population turned out to greet him. Yes, he had liked the racing but not the crowds at the
Derby. London was a tiring place where there were lots of shows, though he couldn't understand
why he had to pay for a programme full of advertisements.
"What English people do not realise," he explained, "is that there is a greater spirit of freedom
and generosity over here in Canada."
That afternoon, he borrowed a horse and set off for a ride. A few months later, after
participating in the Stampede, Egmont married his cousin, Geraldine Moodie, a dental nurse who
had been his childhood sweetheart.
The honeymoon involved the usual pursuit by newsmen, who remained fascinated by "the only
member of the House of Lords who could rope, throw and brand a steer." The couple had to
return home from Victoria, British Columbia, after they had been spotted, and then set off again
for Florida.
However, the new countess was made of stern stuff and dealt with prying reporters by leading
her husband away firmly by the arm before he had time to provide them with any more colourful
copy.
Egmont hardly fulfilled normal expectations of a belted earl when encountered on his ranch in bib 
overalls, and a dusty hat, with six days' beard. He liked his neighbours to address him as "Fred",
but they called him "the Earl" behind his back.
Settling down to develop some of the finest stock in the West on the Priddis ranch, Egmont
resisted his wife's promptings that they go to England until 1938, after he had rescued their son
from a fire which destroyed their ranch-house.
He bought a car in London, toured the country and talked about sending his son to Eton.
Instead, he put Avon Castle on the market and returned to Priddis where he built a 26-room
ranch-house complete with solid oak floors that had to be supported by 12 inch steel girders in
the basement.
When the farm was sold 21 years later to a property company which came in advance of
Calgary's spreading suburbs, he told the ever-interested Daily Express that he might consider
moving back to Britain, where he still had land at Epsom.
However, he used his handsome profit to buy the 5,000-acre Two-Dot Ranch at Nanton, 40
miles south of the city, which had once belonged to the Earl of Minto, Canada's Governor-
General from 1898 to 1904.
Egmont continued to keep largely to himself, though he was delighted on one occasion to be
introduced to a member of his family in Britain, who was staying on a neighbouring ranch.
When Canada's constitution was patriated by the repeal of the Westminster British North
America Act in the early 1980s, a Canadian reporter rang to ask if we would go to England to
speak in what was expected to be a controversial Lords debate. The countess answered the
phone.
"You can't speak to him now. He's out doing his chores," she snapped, before venturing her own
opinion that there was no call for the repeal, anyway. Later, Egmont told a neighbour that he
rather wished he had gone over to take his seat in the House.
Jane Elizabeth Law, Countess of Ellenborough, wife of the 2nd Baron Ellenborough
and 1st (and only) Earl of Ellenborough (c 1807-1881)
The following is extracted from the New York Times of 23 November 1913.
 
'……she was a daughter of Admiral [Sir Henry] Digby of the family of Lord Digby and a grand-
daughter on her mother's side of the Earl of Leicester, and was married at the age of seventeen
to [Baron Ellenborough who would later become] the Earl of Ellenborough , [later] Viceroy of
India.
'He divorced her [in 1830] for eloping with Prince Schwarzenberg, Secretary of the Austrian
Embassy in London. [By him, she had a son, Adolf, whose descendants are still alive]. She
became in turn the favourite of Leopold I of Belgium, and of Louis I of Bavaria, her portrait
figuring in that unique collection of paintings that adorn the walls of the so-called Beauty Salon
of the old palace of the reigning house at Munich.
'After three years marriage to the Saxon Baron Venningen, she eloped from Germany to Athens
with a Greek student with the name of Theodoki, whom she had met at Heidelberg, remained at
Athens long enough to enable him to blow his brains out, and for herself to pose to Parepolus
for his lovely statue of Venus…..and thence proceeded to Palestine. There, emulating the
example of Lady Hester Stanhope……she became a Mohammedan and married a Bedouin chief,
Sheikh Mohammed.
'He was killed by a rival chieftain in attempting to carry her off, and after a brief widowhood she
married another Bedouin, the famous Sheikh el Merzab [Mazrab], with whom she went through
adventures that read like a fairy tale. He, too, was killed in due course by a German adventurer
by the name of Zerlind, just outside Damascus, and her last husband, whose name does not
figure in the pages of "Burke" was a Bedouin camel-driver, who had saved her life on several
occasions. He proved a faithful and loyal spouse, and it was to him that she left every vestige
of her property, when she died, some twenty miles from Damascus, in 1881.'
The "Great Ellesmere Jewel Robbery" of 1856
 
One of the most sensational criminal trials of 1857 involved the theft, in the previous year, of
a quantity of jewels owned by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. The following edited report
of the trial appeared in the 'North Wales Chronicle' of 19 December 1857:-
'At the sitting of the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, William Attwell, alias William Walsh,
24, described as a labourer, Edward Jackson, 31, painter, and Anne Jackson, his wife, who
surrendered to take her trial, and who appeared to be very far advanced in the family way, and
was allowed to be seated in the dock, were charged with stealing a diamond necklace, and a
quantity of other articles of jewellery, lace, and other property, valued at £1,000 in the
indictment, but which was stated to be worth, in reality, nearly £16,000, and said to be the
property of Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, since deceased.
'The prisoners were also charged with feloniously receiving the property, knowing it to have
been stolen. The prisoner Attwell pleaded guilty; Jackson and his wife pleaded not guilty.
'[The facts of the case were] that on the 22nd of January, 1856, Lady Ellesmere was about to
proceed on a visit to the Queen at Windsor, and among a great quantity of other luggage, was
a box which contained a large quantity of valuable articles of clothing and jewellery, the
estimated worth being between £15,000 and £16,000. The box was placed on the top of a cab
to be taken to the Great Western Railway station; but upon the arrival of the vehicle at the
station it was discovered that the box containing the valuable property referred to had been
stolen during the transit of the cab from Bridgewater House, the residence of her ladyship,
to the railway station.
'Information was given to the police, and all the necessary inquiries made, but no trace was