Leigh's Update Board
21 May 2013 added note which discusses the date of creation of the Marquessate of
Aberdeen and Temair, which I believe has been wrongly stated in peerage
reference works
20 May 2013 added note regarding Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st baronet
17 May 2013 added note regarding Sir William Reginald Hall, MP for Liverpool
West Derby 1919-1923 and Eastbourne 1925-1929
16 May 2013 recorded death of Richard Bentinck Boyle, 9th Earl of Shannon
15 May 2013 recorded appointment of five new members of the Privy Council
14 May 2013 recorded death of Hugh William Mackay, 14th Lord Reay
13 May 2013 recorded death of Allen McKay, MP for Penistone 1978-1983 and Barnsley
West and Penistone 1983-1992
6 May 2013 added note regarding Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
6 May 2013 recorded death of Sir Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles, MP for Winchester
1964-1979 who, at the time of his death, was the oldest ex-MP
4 May 2013 added note regarding the two abeyances of the Vaux of Harrowden peerage
4 May 2013 recorded death of William Donald Chapman, Baron Northfield [L],
MP for Northfield 1951-1970
3 May 2013 recorded result of by-election held for the constituency of South Shields 
following the resignation of David Milliband
2 May 2013 expanded note under the barony of Montacute regarding a claim for
this peerage made in 1874
30 Apr 2013 added note regarding claims made to the barony of Fitzwalter [E 1295]
in 1841-1844 and 1924
30 Apr 2013 added note regarding the assumption of the Lawson baronetcy [E 1665]
in 1877
27 Apr 2013 recorded death of James McCulloch York Dickens, MP for Lewisham 
West 1966-1970
25 Apr 2013 recorded appointment of William Michael Hardy Spicer, Baron Spicer [L],
to the Privy Council
23 Apr 2013 recorded appointment of Graham Eric (Jock) Stirrup, Baron Stirrup [L]
as a Knight of the Garter
23 Apr 2013 added note regarding a proposed claim to the barony of Milford (creation
of 1776) which occurred in 1891
22 Apr 2013 added note regarding the successful claim to the barony of Herries in 1858
22 Apr 2013 added note regarding the peerage of Belhaven and Stenton, and its two
periods of dormancy
19 Apr 2013 recorded death of Sir Steuart Robert Pringle, 10th baronet [NS 1683]
19 Apr 2013 recorded death of Ian Balfour, 2nd Baron Balfour of Inchrye. This peerage
now becomes extinct
18 Apr 2013 recorded death of Ernle David Drummond Money, MP for Ipswich 1970-1974
18 Apr 2013 recorded death of Sir Richard James Dashwood, 9th baronet [E 1684]
15 Apr 2013 recorded death of Sir Colin Rex Davis [CH 2001]
11 Apr 2013 recorded appointment of Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge [Justice of
the Supreme Court] to the Privy Council
8 Apr 2013 recorded death of Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford
8 Apr 2013 recorded death of John Francis Arthur St. Aubyn, 4th Baron Saint Levan
8 Apr 2013 recorded death of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [L]
8 Apr 2013 added note regarding the termination of the abeyance of the Braye
barony in 1839
8 Apr 2013 added note regarding the successful claim to the Barony of
Wentworth in 1863-1864
4 Apr 2013 recorded appointments to the Privy Council of John Henry Hayes MP, and
Alastair Peter Campbell, Lord Bracadale [Scottish Lord of Session]
3 Apr 2013 added note regarding Lady Arabella Stuart, daughter of Charles Stuart,
Earl of Lennox of the creation of 1572
27 Mar 2013 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, who
took the title of Baron Berkeley of Knighton
27 Mar 2013 recorded creation of life peerage for Martha Lane Fox, who
took the title of Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho
26 Mar 2013 expanded note under the Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn by adding a
lengthy article which discusses the claims of Olivia Serres and her daughter
Lavinia Ryves to be the daughter and grand-daughter of the Duke
26 Mar 2013 added note regarding Lord George Gordon, MP for Ludgershall 1774-1780
and his role in the "Gordon Riots" of 1780
26 Mar 2013 recorded death (at the age of 101) of Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-
Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow
20 Mar 2013 recorded death of Sir William Fergus Montgomery, MP for Newcastle upon
Tyne East 1959-1964, Brierley Hill 1967-1974 and Altrincham and Sale
1974-1997
19 Mar 2013 added note regarding Francis Howard, successively wife of Robert Devereux,
3rd Earl of Essex (creation of 1572) and Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
(creation of 1613) and her role in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury
15 Mar 2013 recorded the removal of Chris Huhne from the list of Privy Counsellors
15 Mar 2013 recorded death of Sir John Simon Horsbrugh-Porter, 4th baronet [UK 1902]
14 Mar 2013 added note regarding the robust style of electioneering in the borough
of Camelford in the 1820s
13 Mar 2013 added note regarding Alexander Campbell, brother of the 1st Marquess
of Breadalbane, who was executed for killing a fellow army officer in a duel
11 Mar 2013 expanded note regarding George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke
of Cambridge [creation of 1801]
11 Mar 2013 added note regarding Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder
8 Mar 2013 recorded result of by-election held in the constituency of
Mid Ulster following the resignation of Martin McGuinness
8 Mar 2013 recorded death of Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes
8 Mar 2013 added note regarding Sir James Dick, 1st baronet, and the loss
of the English man-of-war "Gloucester" in May 1682
8 Mar 2013 added note regarding Horatio William Bottomley, MP for Hackney
South 1906-1912 and 1918-1922
8 Mar 2013 recorded appointment of Stephen Rothwell O'Brien to the Privy Council
7 Mar 2013 recorded death of Sir Jeffrey Lionel Darell, 8th baronet  [GB 1795]
5 Mar 2013 added note regarding James Henry Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd son of the 5th
Earl of Aberdeen
4 Mar 2013 added note regarding Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1 Mar 2013 recorded result of by-election for the Eastleigh constituency caused by
the resignation of Chris Huhne
27 Feb 2013 recorded death of Richard Michael Oliver Hill, 7th Baron Sandys. The
peerage now becomes a subsidiary title of the Marquess of Downshire
24 Feb 2013 added note regarding Maria Foote, Countess of Harrington, wife of
Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington
24 Feb 2013 added note regarding the apparent assumption of the baronetcy 
of Swale in 1877
24 Feb 2013 added note regarding the apparent assumption of the baronetcy
of Fenwick during the mid-19th century
24 Feb 2013 recorded death of Bruce Millan, MP for Glasgow Craigton 1959-1983 and
Glasgow Govan 1983-1988  PC 1976
22 Feb 2013 added note regarding a claim made to the baronetcy of Wasteneys in 1887
22 Feb 2013 added note under Viscount Leverhulme which discusses the difference
between a peer's title and the territorial designation attached thereto
20 Feb 2013 added very brief note regarding Sir William Augustus Brown [GB 1732],
who murdered his mother in 1794
20 Feb 2013 recorded death of Eugene Francis Whelan [PC Canada 1972]
19 Feb 2013 recorded death of Anthony Speller, MP for Devon North 1979-1992
18 Feb 2013 added note regarding Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st 
Baron Lytton
18 Feb 2013 added note regarding Maud Alice Burke, Lady Cunard, wife of Sir Bache
Cunard, 3rd baronet
15 Feb 2013 recorded death of Sir John Gilmour, 4th baronet [UK 1897]
14 Feb 2013 added note regarding Maria Gunning, wife of the 6th Earl of Coventry
12 Feb 2013 added note regarding James Keir Hardie, MP for West Ham South 1892-1895
and Merthyr Tydvil 1900-1915
11 Feb 2013 added note regarding Sir Robert Stewart, 1st baronet (creation of 1687)
and the ghost of "Pearlin Jean"
11 Feb 2013 added note regarding James Scott, Duke of Monmouth
11 Feb 2013 added note regarding Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, daughter of the
3rd Earl Stanhope
7 Feb 2013 recorded death of Charles Brooke Longbottom, MP for York 1959-1966
6 Feb 2013 recorded appointments of Justin Portal Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
and Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Jack Beatson to the Privy Council
6 Feb 2013 added note regarding George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of
Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland
5 Feb 2013 added note regarding Sir Robert Viner, 1st and only baronet
5 Feb 2013 added note regarding Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st baronet
2 Feb 2013 added note regarding Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of Bristol and
Duchess of Kingston
1 Feb 2013 recorded death of Peter John Philip Seely, 5th Baron Mottistone
1 Feb 2013 added note regarding Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st and only baronet
31 Jan 2013 expanded note regarding Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
31 Jan 2013 recorded death of Diane Marleau  [PC Canada 1993]
29 Jan 2013 added note regarding George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield
28 Jan 2013 recorded death of Sir Henry Grant de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, 
6th baronet [UK 1814]
26 Jan 2013 recorded death of Martial Asselin [PC Canada 1963]
22 Jan 2013 recorded creation of life peerage for John Alfred Stoddard Nash, who took
the title of Baron Nash
22 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir Pyers George Joseph Mostyn, 11th baronet, and
his son, Sir Pyers Edward Mostyn, 12th baronet
22 Jan 2013 added note regarding Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell
and 5th Lord Dingwall, and his father, the Hon. Auberon Edward William
Molyneux Herbert
20 Jan 2013 recorded death of Robert Gordon Robertson [PC Canada 1982]
18 Jan 2013 recorded death of John David Henry Browne, 7th Baron Kilmaine
18 Jan 2013 recorded appointments to the Privy Council of Lindsay Harvey Hoyle, and
three Scottish Lords of Session - Lady Dorrian, Lady Smith and Lord Brodie
 
17 Jan 2013 added note regarding Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
16 Jan 2013 recorded death of Otway Michael James Oliver Plunkett, 16th Baron Louth
11 Jan 2013 added note regarding Robert Horace Walpole, 5th and last Earl of
Orford (creation of 1806)
11 Jan 2013 recorded creation of life peerage for the former Archbishop of Canterbury,
Rowan Douglas Williams, who took the title of Baron Williams of Oystermouth
11 Jan 2013 recorded death of John Wise [PC Canada 1979]
11 Jan 2013 recorded death of Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich [L]
10 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir Alexander Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, 5th baronet
9 Jan 2013 added note regarding Wilfred Fienburgh, MP for Islington North 1951-1958
9 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir William Tindal Robertson, MP for Brighton 1886-1889
9 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir John Shiffner, 5th baronet
8 Jan 2013 expanded note regarding Jane, wife of the 2nd Baron Ellenborough
8 Jan 2013 recorded appointments to the Privy Council of Oliver Michael Robert Eden,
8th Baron Henley, Ivan Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon 
of Tara, Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe and Charles Cuthbert
Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel [L]
8 Jan 2013 recorded appointment of Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy
Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde as a Companion of Honour
4 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir James Langrishe, 4th baronet
2 Jan 2013 recorded death of Rachel Leila Douglas-Home, suo jure Baroness Dacre
(27th in line)
2 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir James Graham-Montgomery, 4th baronet
2 Jan 2013 added note regarding Robert Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
2 Jan 2013 added note regarding Sir Henry Edwards, 1st baronet [UK 1866]
1 Jan 2013 recorded death of Sir Charles Henry McLeod, 3rd baronet [UK 1925]
31 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir Cyril Irvine Patnick, MP for Sheffield Hallam 1987-1997
30 Dec 2012 recorded appointments of Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe 
and Peter Ware Higgs as Companions of Honour
30 Dec 2012 recorded death of William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg [L]
23 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir Michael Osmond Williams, 2nd baronet [UK 1909]. 
This baronetcy has now become extinct
21 Dec 2012 added note regarding Frances Teresa Stuart, wife of Charles Stuart, 3rd
Duke of Richmond (creation of 1641), who served as the model for
Britannia on British coinage between 1672 and 1971
20 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir William Marcus John Worsley, 5th baronet [UK 1838]
and MP for Keighley 1959-1964 and Chelsea 1966-1974
17 Dec 2012 added note regarding Anna Maria Talbot, wife of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury
12 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir Wilfred Henry Frederick Robinson, 3rd baronet
10 Dec 2012 added note regarding Robert Torrens, MP for Ipswich 1826-1827, Ashburton
1831-1832 and Bolton 1832-1834, and his son Sir Robert Richard Torrens,
MP for Cambridge 1868-1874
10 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir Colin Anson St.Clair-Ford, 8th baronet
8 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir Timothy Roy Henry Kimber, 4th baronet
7 Dec 2012 recorded death of Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th baronet
4 Dec 2012 added note regarding Sir James Outram, 1st baronet
2 Dec 2012 recorded appointment to the Privy Council of Sir Richard George
Bramwell McCombe
1 Dec 2012 added note regarding Sir Edward Richard Henry, 1st and only baronet
30 Nov 2012 recorded results of by-elections held in Croydon North, Middlesbrough 
and Rotherham
30 Nov 2012 added note regarding Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke
of Westminster
29 Nov 2012 recorded death of Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman
28 Nov 2012 recorded death of Sir William James Denby Roberts, 3rd baronet
22 Nov 2012 added note regarding the recent history of the Gore-Booth family
[Irish baronetcy created in 1760]
20 Nov 2012 recorded death of William Edward John McCarthy, Baron McCarthy [L]
20 Nov 2012 recorded death of Alan Cripps Nind Hopkins, MP for Bristol North East 
1959-1966
16 Nov 2012 recorded results of by-elections held in Cardiff South and Penarth, Corby
and Manchester Central
15 Nov 2012 recorded creation of life peerage for Paul Clive Deighton, who
took the title of Baron Deighton
14 Nov 2012 recorded death of Robert Washington Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers
7 Nov 2012 recorded death of John Vavasseur Fisher, 3rd Baron Fisher
7 Nov 2012 recorded death of Robert Phillip Kaplan, PC [Canada] 1980
3 Nov 2012 recorded death of John Clayton Wise, 2nd Baron Wise
2 Nov 2012 recorded death of Geoffrey Lofthouse, Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract [L]
29 Oct 2012 recorded appointments of Sir David Lloyd Jones and Sir Colman
Maurice Treacy to the Privy Council
29 Oct 2012 recorded death of Sir Richard David Christopher Brooke, 11th baronet [E 1662]
26 Oct 2012 recorded recent appointments of 10 new members of the Privy Council
26 Oct 2012 recorded death of Sir Richard Edward Pilditch, 4th baronet
24 Oct 2012 expanded note regarding Sir Charles Edward Archibald Watkin Hamilton,
5th baronet [GB 1776] and 3rd baronet [UK 1819]
24 Oct 2012 added note regarding the baronetcy of Peel of Tyersall Hall, Yorkshire
23 Oct 2012 recorded death of Harvie Andre, PC [Canada] 1984
22 Oct 2012 added note regarding Sir Justinian Vere Isham, 9th baronet
22 Oct 2012 recorded death of Walter Harrison, MP for Wakefield 1964-1987
and PC 1977
20 Oct 2012 recorded death of Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, PC [Canada] 1979
19 Oct 2012 recorded death of Sir James Richard Morrison-Low, 3rd baronet
19 Oct 2012 recorded death of Charles Rupert John Wiggin, 5th baronet [but whose
succession to the baronetcy remained unproved on his death]
18 Oct 2012 added notes regarding Sir Hedworth Williamson, 8th baronet, and Sir
Nicholas Frederick Hedworth Williamson, 11th and last baronet
18 Oct 2012 added note regarding Percy Lionel Rothband, son and heir of Sir Henry
Lesser Rothband, 1st and only baronet
15 Oct 2012 added note regarding Francis Annesley, 6th Earl Annesley
15 Oct 2012 added note regarding Marguerite Jeanne Steinheil, wife of the 6th
Baron Abinger
14 Oct 2012 recorded death of Sir Stuart Bell, MP for Middlesbrough since 1983
12 Oct 2012 added note regarding James Yorke Macgregor Scarlett, 4th Baron Abinger
11 Oct 2012 added note regarding William Lewis Hughes, 2nd and last Baron Dinorben
9 Oct 2012 added notes regarding the 5th, 6th and 7th Earls of Guilford
8 Oct 2012 added note (under Scottish Lords of Session) regarding the murder of
Sir George Lockhart, Lord Carnwath in 1689
8 Oct 2012 added note regarding Isabella, Countess of Buchan, wife of John
Comyn, 7th Earl of Buchan of the original creation
8 Oct 2012 added note regarding the trial for high treason in 1693 of Charles
Fraser, 4th Lord Fraser
8 Oct 2012 added note regarding the murder of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray 
(creation of 1562)
6 Oct 2012 recorded death of Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, Lady 
Kinloss in her own right (12th in line)
3 Oct 2012 added note regarding Laurence Michael Dillon, brother of Sir Robert
William Charlier Dillon, 8th baronet, who was born Laura Maud Dillon and 
who became the first female-to-male transsexual to undergo sexual 
reassignment
3 Oct 2012 added note regarding the attempt made in 1976 to claim the
extinct baronetcy of Dixie of Bosworth  [E 1660]
3 Oct 2012 added note regarding the likely extinction of the baronetcy of Staples
of Lissan [I 1628]
3 Oct 2012 added note regarding Sir Andrew Clarence Francis Armstrong,
6th baronet  [UK 1841]
2 Oct 2012 added note regarding Sir Hamilton Westrow Hulse, 9th baronet
2 Oct 2012 added note regarding Sir Edward Henry Hulse, 6th baronet
2 Oct 2012 added note regarding Gwyneth Erica Morgan, only daughter of the 3rd
Baron Tredegar, who disappeared in December 1924
1 Oct 2012 recorded appointment of Patricia Marwick to the Privy Council
1 Oct 2012 recorded death of Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH
30 Sep 2012 recorded death of Malcolm Hunt Wicks, MP for Croydon North 1992-1997
and Croydon North since 1997. PC 2008
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Thomas Dingley Hatton, 10th baronet
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Richard Eyre Cox, 4th baronet  [I 1706]
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir George Ramsay, 6th baronet  [NS 1666]
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir James Lumsden Seton, 8th baronet  [NS 1683]
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Patrick Heron-Maxwell, 5th baronet
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Charles Burton, 4th baronet [E 1622]
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir George Tuite, 7th baronet
24 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir John Carmichael Anstruther, who was, at
the age of 13, accidentally shot dead by a fellow Eton student
22 Sep 2012 recorded death of Sir John Christopher Smith-Dodsworth, 8th baronet
21 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir George Dunbar, 4th baronet  [NS 1694]
21 Sep 2012 added note regarding Caleb Barnes Harman, MP for Longford
County 1793-1796 in the Irish House of Commons
21 Sep 2012 recorded appointment of Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young,
6th baronet, as a Companion of Honour
20 Sep 2012 added note regarding a claim made to the May baronetcy [I 1763] in 1886
18 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd baronet
18 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Richard Croft, 6th baronet [E 1671]
18 Sep 2012 added note regarding Caroline, Lady Carden, wife of Sir John
Craven Carden, 4th baronet
18 Sep 2012 added note regarding the Beckwith baronetcy created in 1681
18 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Robert Davers, 5th baronet
18 Sep 2012 added note regarding the death of Sir John Charles Rogers, 9th baronet
16 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir William Yorke, 1st and only baronet
15 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Henry St.John Carew St.John-Mildmay, 4th baronet
15 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Godfrey Maculloch, who was beheaded in 1697
14 Sep 2012 recorded death of Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC [Canada] 1982
14 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd baronet
13 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir William Henry Don, 7th baronet
12 Sep 2012 recorded death of Alfred James Wellbeloved, MP for Erith and Crayford 
and Crayford 1965-1983
11 Sep 2012 added note regarding James Hamilton Stanhope, MP for Buckingham
1817-1818, Fowey 1818-1819 and Dartmouth 1822-1825
11 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, 7th baronet, who
murdered his older brother, Sir Francis Kinloch, 6th baronet, in 1795
11 Sep 2012 added note regarding James Barlow-Hoy, MP for Southampton 1830-1831, 
1832-1833 and 1835-1837
11 Sep 2012 added note regarding Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley
8 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Montagu Lowther Chapman, 3rd baronet
8 Sep 2012 added note regarding the deaths of Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston, MP
for Reigate 1806-1808, and George Augustus Pollen, MP for Leominster
1796-1802, who were both lost at sea in 1808
7 Sep 2012 recorded death of Sir James William Thomas Alexander Malcolm,
12th baronet [NS 1665]
6 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st baronet
6 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Lionel Copley, 2nd baronet [GB 1778]
6 Sep 2012 added note regarding the death of William Shipley, MP for Flint
1807-1812 and St. Mawes 1812-1813
6 Sep 2012 added note regarding George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton
6 Sep 2012 recorded death of John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin
and 2nd Baron Oaksey
5 Sep 2012 added note regarding William de Blaquiere, 3rd Baron de Blaquiere
5 Sep 2012 added note regarding Sir Eyre Coote, MP for Queen's County 1802-1806
and Barnstaple 1812-1818
5 Sep 2012 added note regarding the death of Sir George Campbell, MP for
Carmarthen 1806-1813
3 Sep 2012 added note regarding Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
31 Aug 2012 added note regarding William Cavendish, MP for Knaresborough
Apr-July 1804, Aylesbury Jul 1804-1806 and Derby 1806-1812
31 Aug 2012 added brief note regarding James Bruce, MP for Marlborough 1796-1797
31 Aug 2012 added note regarding Ayscoghe Boucherett, MP for Great Grimsby 1796-1803
31 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5th baronet
31 Aug 2012 added note regarding John Bagwell, MP for Cashel 1801-1802
30 Aug 2012 recorded death of Sir Rhodes Boyson, MP for Brent North 1974-1997
28 Aug 2012 added note regarding Charles FitzRoy, 2nd son of the 1st Baron 
Southampton (creation of 1780) and his relationship with HRH Princess
Amelia, youngest daughter of King George III
27 Aug 2012 recorded death of Donald Cameron Easterbrook Gorrie, MP for
Edinburgh West 1997-2001
16 Aug 2012 recorded death of Sir Raymond William Whitney, MP for Wycombe 1978-2001
15 Aug 2012 recorded death of Alexander Falconer, MEP for Mid Scotland
and Fife 1984-1999
15 Aug 2012 recorded death of Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester [L]
15 Aug 2012 recorded death of Stuart Jeffrey Randall, Baron Randall [L]
15 Aug 2012 recorded death of Sir Neil Welbourne Jephcott, 3rd baronet
13 Aug 2012 added note regarding the death of John Michael Inigo Cross, son
of the 2nd Viscount Cross
13 Aug 2012 added note regarding the last four Barons Wenlock [creation of 1839]
13 Aug 2012 added note regarding George William Coventry, Viscount Deerhurst, son
of the 9th Earl of Coventry
13 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir John Henry Dunn, 2nd baronet [UK 1917]
13 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir Roger Warin Beaconsfield Onslow, 6th baronet
11 Aug 2012 recorded death of Sir Anthony John Ernest Tritton, 4th baronet
11 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st and
only baronet
9 Aug 2012 added note regarding Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland
9 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir David Gerald Moncreiffe, 10th baronet
8 Aug 2012 added note regarding Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, younger son of Sir
Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th baronet
7 Aug 2012 recorded death of William Herbert Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden
7 Aug 2012 recorded death of Sir Reginald Michael Thomas Butler, 3rd baronet
6 Aug 2012 added note regarding the death of Sir Philip Harold Pilditch, 2nd baronet
6 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir Henry Felix Jervis-White-Jervis, 5th baronet
6 Aug 2012 added note regarding Sir George Arnold Ford Kennard, 3rd baronet
6 Aug 2012 added brief note regarding the death of Sir Luke Thompson, MP for
Sunderland 1922-1929 and 1931-1935
6 Aug 2012 added brief note regarding the death of Sir John James Briscoe, 5th baronet
6 Aug 2012 added note regarding Richard Henry Piers Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret
2 Aug 2012 recorded death of Peter Rolfe Harrington Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery
26 Jul 2012 recorded death of John Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson
19 Jul 2012 recorded death of Amos Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver [L]
18 Jul 2012 recorded death of Marsha Singh, MP for Bradford West 1997-2012
18 Jul 2012 recorded death of Sir Henry Saxon Tate, 5th baronet [UK 1898]
16 Jul 2012 recorded death of John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott
13 Jul 2012 recorded death of Sir Michael Edward Kennedy, 8th baronet [UK 1836]
9 Jul 2012 returned from 5 weeks' holiday in America (during which time my wife and
family made a valiant attempt to revive the retail economy of that
country) to find that a number of events had occurred that require to
be recorded on these pages. Specifically..........
recorded death of Peter Kingsley Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell [L]
recorded death of John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples [L]
recorded death of Patrick Morgan Mahoney [PC Canada 1972]
recorded creation of life peerage for Beeban Kidron, who took the
title of Baroness Kidron
recorded creation of life peerage for Alexander John Trees, who took the
title of Baron Trees
recorded the termination of the abeyances of the Conyers and Fauconberg
peerages
recorded the death of Alexander Charles Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart,
9th Marquess of Londonderry
recorded death of Sir Arthur Michael Palliser [PC 1983]
recorded death of Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves, MP for Hyndburn 1983-1992
received confirmation that the Earldom of Egmont and its subsidiary
titles became extinct on the death of the 12th Earl in November 2011
recorded death of William Ian Stewart, Lord Allanbridge [Scottish
Lord of Session 1977-1995]
recorded death of Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun
recorded death of Sir Valentine Robert Duff Abdy, 6th baronet
recorded death of Colin Marsh Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge [L]
4 Jun 2012 recorded death of Sir Brian Edward Talboys CH
2 Jun 2012 added note regarding Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron
Moynihan
31 May 2012 added notes regarding Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and Thomas
Allnutt Brassey, 2nd and last Earl Brassey
30 May 2012 added note regarding Elizabeth Hardwick, wife of George Talbot, 
6th Earl of Shrewsbury
30 May 2012 added note regarding Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
28 May 2012 added note regarding the death of Charles Compton William Cavendish,
3rd Baron Chesham
28 May 2012 added note regarding the attempted murder by means of a samurai
sword of Nigel Jones, MP for Cheltenham 1992-2005 (and later Baron 
Jones of Cheltenham) in January 2000
27 May 2012 added note regarding the death of Sir John Edward Mortimer Bowen,
3rd baronet
27 May 2012 added note regarding the death of George Waldegrave, 5th Earl
Waldegrave
26 May 2012 added note regarding the death of George John Frederick Sackville,
4th Duke of Dorset
26 May 2012 added note regarding the death of Francis George Hugh Seymour, 
5th Marquess of Hertford
26 May 2012 added note regarding Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st and only baronet
25 May 2012 added note regarding Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, wife of Sir Robert
Paterson Houston, 1st and only baronet
24 May 2012 added note regarding Lavinia Fenton, mistress, and later wife, of
Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
18 May 2012 added note regarding the Barony of Poer (or La Poer), a subsidiary
title of the Marquess of Waterford, which was created in 1767
17 May 2012 recorded death of John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
17 May 2012 recorded death of Jean Kennedy McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane
of Llandaff [L]
10 May 2012 recorded death of Edward Watson Short, Baron Glenamara [L]
8 May 2012 added note regarding Herbert Austin, 1st and only Baron Austin
7 May 2012 added note regarding the successful claims made by Henry James Scrymgeour-
Wedderburn to the titles of Viscount Dudhope in July 1952 and Earl of Dundee
in May 1953
7 May 2012 added note regarding the successful claim to the Viscountcy of Valentia
made in June 1959
6 May 2012 recorded death of Sir Lovelace Anthony Stamer, 5th baronet
6 May 2012 added note regarding Sir Andrew Agnew, 5th baronet of Lochnaw
3 May 2012 added note regarding Jennifer Jane Forwood, Baroness Arlington
(11th in line)
3 May 2012 added note regarding the death of John Charles William FitzRoy,
9th Duke of Grafton
2 May 2012 added note regarding the death of Sir William Wolseley, 3rd baronet
(creation of 1628)
1 May 2012 added note regarding the successful claim made for the
Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell in 1985
1 May 2012 added note regarding Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
26 Apr 2012 recorded death of Shireen Olive Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie
of Brompton [L]
24 Apr 2012 added note regarding John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee
21 Apr 2012 recorded death of Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke [L]
16 Apr 2012 expanded note regarding the 3rd Baron Moynihan
11 Apr 2012 noted obituary which appeared in the Calgary "Herald" of 10 November
2011 in the name of Frederick Thomas Gerald Perceval. Although no
title is mentioned, this may be the 12th Earl of Egmont. Standard works
of reference state that the heir is Donald Perceval, born in 1954, but
there seems to be doubt as to whether this man is an adopted son of the
11th Earl. If this is the case, he cannot inherit. I will await further details 
before updating the relevant entry under "Egmont"
11 Apr 2012 recorded death of Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville, 16th Earl of Leven
and 13th Earl of Melville
11 Apr 2012 recorded death of Peter Patrick Fitzroy Martyn Martyn-Hemphill,
5th Baron Hemphill
11 Apr 2012 recorded death of Gordon Alexander Thomas Bagier, MP for
Sunderland South 1964-1987
8 Apr 2012 recorded death of William Henry Brett, Baron Brett [L]
30 Mar 2012 recorded death of Henry Maitland Clark, MP for Antrim North 1959-1970
30 Mar 2012 updated note regarding the death of Sir Andrew Imbert-Terry, 4th baronet
28 Mar 2012 added note regarding the death of William Huskisson, MP for Morpeth
1796-1802, Liskeard 1804-1807, Harwich 1807-1812, Chichester 1812-
1823 and Liverpool 1823-1830
28 Mar 2012 added note regarding Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent
27 Mar 2012 recorded death of Anthony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree [L]
26 Mar 2012 added note regarding Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman
24 Mar 2012 recorded death of Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley KG
22 Mar 2012 added note regarding Sir George Arthur, 1st baronet
22 Mar 2012 recorded death of Sir John Cecil Nicholson Wakeley, 2nd baronet
20 Mar 2012 recorded death of Francis Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier [S] and
5th Baron Ettrick
16 Mar 2012 added note regarding William Smith O'Brien, MP for Ennis 1828-1831
and Limerick County 1835-1848
13 Mar 2012 recorded death of Kenneth William Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn
of Charlton [L]
12 Mar 2012 recorded appointment of Hugh Matthews, Lord Matthews [Lord of Session]
to the Privy Council
11 Mar 2012 updated the "Peerage Records" page to record the achievement of
their 100th birthdays of Lords Langford and Thurlow
7 Mar 2012 added note regarding the executions of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock,
Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch and Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat
for their parts in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745
6 Mar 2012 recorded death of Norman Antony Francis St.John-Stevas, Baron
St.John of Fawsley [L]
5 Mar 2012 added note regarding Feargus Edward O'Connor, MP for Cork
County 1832-1835 and Nottingham 1847-1852
3 Mar 2012 added note regarding Sir Clayton Pennington Freeling, 8th baronet
3 Mar 2012 added note regarding Charlotte, Countess of Derby (wife of the 7th
Earl) and her defence of Lathom House during the Englsih Civil War
2 Mar 2012 expanded page entitled "Fathers of the House" to include a listing
of the oldest sitting members of the House at various times since 1874
2 Mar 2012 added note regarding David Weitzman, MP for Stoke Newington
1945-1950 and Hackney North & Stoke Newington 1950-1979
1 Mar 2012 expanded note regarding Sir John Dineley-Goodere, 5th baronet
29 Feb 2012 added note regarding Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen 
(creation of 1894)
29 Feb 2012 recorded death of Sir James Arthur Cayzer, 5th baronet [UK 1904]
26 Feb 2012 recorded death of Pierre Juneau [PC Canada 1975]
24 Feb 2012 added note explaining the reason for the two creations of the barony
of Fairhaven
23 Feb 2012 recorded death of Hugh Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson [L]
21 Feb 2012 added note regarding Anne Estella Sarah Penfold Cave, Countess Cave of
Richmond in her own right
21 Feb 2012 added note regarding Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall (creation of 1307)
20 Feb 2012 recorded death of Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley [L]
20 Feb 2012 recorded death of Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale [L]
14 Feb 2012 recorded death of Adrian Gerald Foley, 8th Baron Foley
14 Feb 2012 recorded death of James Cecil Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke
14 Feb 2012 added note regarding Sir Thomas Picton, MP for Pembroke 1813-1815
14 Feb 2012 added note regarding the death of James Walker, MP for Newport 
1929-1931 and Motherwell 1935-1945
14 Feb 2012 expanded note regarding Lord Dufferin's famous dream-warning
14 Feb 2012 added note regarding Abigail Masham, wife of the 1st Baron Masham of Otes
13 Feb 2012 recorded death of Michael Collins Welsh, MP for Don Valley 1979-1983
and Doncaster North 1983-1992
13 Feb 2012 added note regarding Robert Gallnigad Bontine Cunninghame
Graham, MP for Lanarkshire North West 1886-1892
8 Feb 2012 recorded death of Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th baronet
8 Feb 2012 added note regarding Richard Henry Brinsley Norton, 6th Baron Grantley
6 Feb 2012 added note regarding Ermengarde Melusina Schulenberg, Duchess of Kendal
5 Feb 2012 added note regarding Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare
4 Feb 2012 added note regarding George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
2 Feb 2012 added note regarding the destruction of Menlough House, home of
the Blake baronets
1 Feb 2012 added note regarding Lady Selina Hastings, wife of the 9th Earl of
Huntingdon
30 Jan 2012 expanded note regarding the Affleck baronetcy following receipt of 
information from a correspondent
29 Jan 2012 added note regarding William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
27 Jan 2012 recorded death of Sir Rupert Charles Gerald Shuckburgh, 13th baronet
27 Jan 2012 recorded death of Savile William Francis Crossley, 3rd Baron Somerleyton
27 Jan 2012 recorded death of Alexander Eadie, MP for Midlothian 1966-1992
26 Jan 2012 added note regarding Augustus Charles Hobart ["Hobart Pasha"], 3rd son of
the 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire
25 Jan 2012 recorded death of David Anthony Atkinson, MP for Bournemouth
East 1977-2005
25 Jan 2012 added note regarding Kevin Izod O'Doherty, MP for Meath North 1885-1886
24 Jan 2012 added note regarding Sir Henry Bate Dudley, 1st and only baronet
24 Jan 2012 added note regarding Lady Henrietta Herbert, daughter of the 1st
Earl Waldegrave
20 Jan 2012 recorded death of Charles Richard Morris, MP for Openshaw
1963-1983 and PC 1978
19 Jan 2012 added note regarding Anthony Crespigny Claude Vivian, 5th Baron Vivian
18 Jan 2012 added note regarding the death of Alfred Peter Hillier, MP for 
Hitchin 1910-1911
18 Jan 2012 added note regarding the death of Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st
Baron Trevethin
18 Jan 2012 added note regarding Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry,
and his encounter with "The Radiant Boy"
16 Jan 2012 recorded death of Jane O'Neil Buchan, MEP for Glasgow 1979-1994
16 Jan 2012 added note regarding John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
(creation of 1652)
14 Jan 2012 added note regarding Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, MP for
Plymouth Sutton 1919-1945
13 Jan 2012 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Augustine Thomas O'Donnell,
who took the title of Baron O'Donnell
12 Jan 2012 recorded death of Francis Cook, MP for Stockton North 1983-2010
11 Jan 2012 added note regarding Percy Sholto Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry
11 Jan 2012 added note regarding Arthur Hayday, MP for Nottingham West 
1918-1931 and 1935-1945
9 Jan 2012 added note regarding an attempt in 1915 to remove Sir Ernest Cassel and
Sir Edgar Speyer, both of whom were foreign-born, from membership of
the Privy Council
9 Jan 2012 added note regarding two legends associated with the Viscountcy of
Oxfuird
9 Jan 2012 added note regarding a claim made in 1922 to the Irish barony of
Power created in 1535
8 Jan 2012 added note regarding Sir John Hobart Culme-Seymour, 2nd baronet
6 Jan 2012 added note regarding Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, 3rd baronet (creation 
of 1783)
5 Jan 2012 added note regarding Albert Grant, MP for Kidderminster 1865-1868
and February-July 1874
4 Jan 2012 recorded death of Sir David Cozens-Hardy Hirst  [PC 1992]
3 Jan 2012 added note regarding Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st baronet
3 Jan 2012 added note regarding Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton
3 Jan 2012 recorded death of Sir Roger Hugh Cary, 2nd baronet
2 Jan 2012 recorded appointments of David Hockney and former Australian Prime
Minister, John Winston Howard, to the Order of Merit
2 Jan 2012 added note regarding Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, mistress
of King James II
31 Dec 2011 expanded note regarding Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston
30 Dec 2011 recorded death of Sir Philip Digby Pauncefort-Duncombe, 4th baronet
29 Dec 2011 added note regarding James Edward Oglethorpe, MP for Haslemere
1722-1754 and founder of the American state of Georgia
28 Dec 2011 added note regarding Robert Lowe, 1st and only Viscount Sherbrooke
27 Dec 2011 added note regarding Louise Renee de Penancort de Keroualle,
Duchess of Portsmouth, mistress of King Charles II
24 Dec 2011 added note regarding a prophetic dream experienced by William
Henry Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett
23 Dec 2011 added note regarding Sir James William Cecil Roll, 4th baronet
22 Dec 2011 added note regarding Marguerite Power, wife of Charles John 
Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (creation of 1816)
21 Dec 2011 added note, under the Rendlesham peerage, regarding the Great
Thellusson Will Case
21 Dec 2011 added note regarding Anne, Countess of Macclesfield, sometime wife
of Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
20 Dec 2011 recorded death of Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener of
Khartoum. This peerage now becomes extinct
19 Dec 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Edward Geoffrey Broadley
Palmer, 10th baronet
19 Dec 2011 added note regarding Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, MP for Oxford
University 1935-1950
19 Dec 2011 added note regarding John Scott, 2nd Earl of Eldon
17 Dec 2011 recorded result of by-election held in Feltham and Heston following
the death of David Alan Keen
16 Dec 2011 recorded death of Graham Harry Booth, MEP for South West England
2002-2008
15 Dec 2011 added note regarding Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany and his son,
Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
12 Dec 2011 recorded death of Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield
12 Dec 2011 added note regarding Sir Robert Innes, 6th baronet of Balveny
12 Dec 2011 added note regarding Frances Talbot, wife of Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of
Tyrconnel and titular Duke of Tyrconnel
11 Dec 2011 added note regarding "Black Agnes," wife of the 9th Earl of Dunbar
10 Dec 2011 recorded appointment of Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption
to the Privy Council
9 Dec 2011 recorded death of Sir Zelman Cowen [PC 1981]
8 Dec 2011 recorded death of Sir Frederick John Charles Gordon Hervey-Bathurst,
7th baronet
7 Dec 2011 recorded death of James Hugh Cecil, 3rd Baron Rockley
7 Dec 2011 added note regarding Charles Bradlaugh, MP for Northampton 1880-1891,
 
7 Dec 2011 added note regarding Charles Gustavus Adolphus Drucker, MP for
Northampton 1895-1900
6 Dec 2011 added note regarding Richard Martin, MP for Galway County 1801-1812
and 1818-1827
4 Dec 2011 added note regarding Sir Cloudesley Shovell, MP for Rochester
1695-1701 and 1705-1707
4 Dec 2011 added note regarding Edward Vernon, MP for Penryn 1722-1734,
Portsmouth 1741 and Ipswich 1741-1757
4 Dec 2011 added note regarding Janet Douglas, widow of the 6th Lord Glamis,
who was burned at the stake in 1537
29 Nov 2011 recorded death of David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone
29 Nov 2011 added note regarding Anthony Grey, 3rd Baron Lucas of Crudwell
29 Nov 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir John Valentine Carden, 6th baronet
29 Nov 2011 added note regarding the death of Samuel Vyvyan Trerice Adams, MP for 
Leeds West 1931-1945
27 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st baronet
25 Nov 2011 added note regarding John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (creation of 1449)
25 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir William Osler, 1st and only baronet
24 Nov 2011 added note regarding John Warburton Beckett, MP for Gateshead 
1924-1929 and Peckham 1929-1931
24 Nov 2011 added note regarding Garry Allighan, MP for Gravesend 1945-1947
who was expelled from the House of Commons for "Dishonourable Conduct"
22 Nov 2011 added note regarding Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, MP for Lymington
1791-1796, and his championing of the cause of the false prophet
Richard Brothers
20 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st baronet
and later 1st Baron Rosmead
18 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st and only baronet,
who amassed possibly the largest private collection of books and 
manuscripts in history
15 Nov 2011 added note regarding Edward Osborne, founder of the family
fortune and ancestor of the 1st Duke of Leeds
15 Nov 2011 added note regarding Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Irish patriot
and the first woman elected to the House of Commons
12 Nov 2001 added note regarding the death of John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie,
and the "Gowrie Conspiracy"
11 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st baronet,
and his father, David Sassoon, founder of the family business
11 Nov 2011 recorded death of Katherine Grant, Countess of Dysart in her
own right (12th in line)
10 Nov 2011 added note regarding Thomas Price, MP for Weobly 1702-1705
10 Nov 2011 added note regarding the election of James Joseph Hope-Vere in
Newport (Isle of Wight) in 1831, and the need to subsequently amend
the election return
10 Nov 2011 recorded appointment of Denzil Llewellyn Douglas, Prime Minister of
Saint Kitts and Nevis, to the Privy Council
9 Nov 2011 added note regarding Henry Du Pré Labouchère, MP for Windsor 1865-1866,
Middlesex 1867-1868 and Northampton 1880-1905
8 Nov 2011 recorded appointment of Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva to the Privy Council
7 Nov 2011 recorded death of Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood [L]
7 Nov 2011 added note regarding Samuel Plimsoll, MP for Derby 1868-1880
and his fight to improve maritime safety
7 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir Alfred Frederick Bird, 1st baronet
4 Nov 2011 added note regarding the suicide of George Augustus
Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
3 Nov 2011 recorded appointments of Sir Nigel Anthony Lamert Davis, Sir Kim
Martin Jordan Lewison and Sir David James Tyson Kitchin to the
Privy Council
3 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir George Houston Reid, MP for St.George's,
Hanover Square 1916-1918, the only Australian Prime Minister
who ever sat in the House of Commons
1 Nov 2011 added note regarding Sir George Tryon, father of George Clement
Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon
1 Nov 2011 added note regarding an attempt made on the life of Sir George
Jessel, formerly MP for Dover 1868-1873, in February 1878
1 Nov 2011 added note regarding the deaths of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
and William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas and 2nd Earl of Avandale
26 Oct 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Donald Thomas Younger
Curry, who took the title of Baron Curry of Kirkharle
26 Oct 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Indarjit Singh, who took the
title of Baron Singh of Wimbledon
22 Oct 2011 added note regarding Charles Leach, MP for Colne Valley 1910-1916,
the only member of the House of Commons ever to be removed under
the provisions of the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886
21 Oct 2011 added note regarding the suicide of George William Lyttelton,
4th Baron Lyttelton
20 Oct 2011 recorded appointment of Justine Greening to the Privy Council
19 Oct 2011 recorded death of Barnett Jerome Danson [PC Canada 1974]
19 Oct 2011 expanded note regarding the alleged "Curse of the Waterfords"
19 Oct 2011 added note regarding Lord FitzRoy George Charles Lennox, 2nd son
of the 5th Duke of Richmond, who was a passenger aboard the 
steamship 'President' which disappeared in March 1841
19 Oct 2011 recorded death of Reginald B Alcock [PC Canada 2003]
19 Oct 2011 recorded death of Henry Allen John Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst
10 Oct 2011 added note regarding George Osbaldeston, MP for East Retford
1812-1818
10 Oct 2011 recorded death of Sir Robert Cave-Browne-Cave, 16th baronet
10 Oct 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Thomas Edward Watson,
1st baronet
9 Oct 2011 recorded appointments to the Privy Council of Dame Anne Judith Rafferty
and Sir Andrew Ewart McFarlane
9 Oct 2011 recorded death of Iain MacDonald Sproat, MP for Aberdeen South
1970-1983 and Harwich 1992-1997
8 Oct 2011 added note regarding the trial for murder in March 1699 of Edward
Rich, 6th Earl of Warwick and 3rd Earl of Holland
7 Oct 2011 added note regarding Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassillis, and
his torturing of Allan Stewart in order to gain control of some local lands
6 Oct 2011 added note regarding the death of Richard Martin Herbert Peake,
son of the 2nd Viscount Ingleby
6 Oct 2011 added note regarding the death of Walter Terence Evans, son and heir of 
Sir Walter Harry Evans, 1st baronet [UK 1920]
4 Oct 2011 added note regarding the successful claim to the Viscountcy of
Taaffe made by Charles, 10th Viscount Taaffe, in 1860
4 Oct 2011 added note regarding Sir Abe Bailey, 1st baronet
4 Oct 2011 added note regarding Francis Bennett-Goldney, MP for Canterbury 
1910-1918
2 Oct 2011 added note regarding the "Tichborne Dole," an annual charitable distribution
of flour made to the residents of the local parish
29 Sep 2011 added note regarding Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, 1st and only baronet
[UK 1913] and some points of interest relating to his family home at
Levens Hall, Cumbria
27 Sep 2011 added note regarding Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 12th baronet
27 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir George Burrard, 4th baronet
27 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Henry Day Ingilby, 2nd baronet
[UK 1866]
27 Sep 2011 added note regarding an incident in the life of Bernard Edward Barnaby
Fitzpatrick, 2nd and last Baron Castletown
26 Sep 2011 recorded death of Douglas John Moray Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray
26 Sep 2011 added note regarding Sir Alexander Hay Seton, 10th baronet [NS 1663]
26 Sep 2011 added note regarding Charles Guistiniani-Bandini, 9th Earl of Newburgh
24 Sep 2011 added note regarding a dream experienced by Lady Goring, wife of Sir
Craven Charles Goring, 10th baronet,together with a lengthy discussion
of the alleged events in her dream
22 Sep 2011 recorded death of Sir Donald Henry Farquharson  [PC 1989]
20 Sep 2011 added note (under the Earldom of Airlie) regarding the "Airlie Drummer,"
whose drumming is said to foretell the death of a member of the Ogilvy
family, together with a legend associated with the early Earls of Angus
20 Sep 2011 recorded death of George Cadel Price [PC 1982]
19 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Francis Beattie, MP for Cathcart
1942-1945
18 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of James Tomkinson, MP for
Crewe 1900-1910
18 Sep 2011 thanks to Dr. Brian Gurrin of the National University of Ireland, was
able to resolve the question of the representation of Dungannon in
the Irish House of Commons in late 1800.
16 Sep 2011 added note regarding Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet
16 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Frank Cecil Meyer, 2nd baronet
16 Sep 2011 expanded note regarding the 5th Marquess Townshend
16 Sep 2011 added note regarding Sir Arthur Henry Crosfield, 1st and only baronet
15 Sep 2011 recorded death of Douglas Albert Vivian Allen, Baron Croham [L]
15 Sep 2011 recorded death of Richard William Hamilton CH
14 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Horace Courtenay Gammell Forbes,
19th Lord Forbes
13 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Richard Fort, MP for
Clitheroe 1950-1959
12 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir James Blindell, MP for Holland
with Boston 1929-1937
12 Sep 2011 added note regarding Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
10 Sep 2011 added note regarding Edward Wortley-Montagu, MP for Huntingdonshire
1747-1754 and Bossiney 1754-1768
8 Sep 2011 recorded death of Edgar John Benson PC [Canada] 1964
8 Sep 2011 added note regarding Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
and 1st Earl of Monmouth [creation of 1689]
5 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Isaac Fletcher, MP for Cockermouth
1868-1879
5 Sep 2011 added note regarding Sir Emile Algernon Arthur Keppell Cowell-
Stepney, 2nd baronet
2 Sep 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir James Henry Domville, 5th baronet
2 Sep 2011 added notes regarding the death of Sir Capel Charles Wolseley, 9th
baronet, and the discovery of the right to the baronetcy of Sir
Garnet Wolseley, 12th baronet
2 Sep 2011 added note regarding the challenge issued by Frank Gray, MP for Oxford
1922-1924 to walk the 23 miles, in full infantryman's pack and rifle, between
Banbury Cross and Oxford, which was taken up by Charles Ainsworth, MP
for Bury 1918-1935, on 27 August 1923
30 Aug 2011 added note regarding the death of Henry Douglas King, MP for
Norfolk North 1918-1922 and Paddington South 1922-1930
30 Aug 2011 added note regarding Michael Joyce, MP for Limerick 1900-1918
27 Aug 2011 added note regarding William Hugh Clifford, 10th Baron Clifford
of Chudleigh
27 Aug 2011 added note regarding Berkeley Basil Moreton, 4th Earl of Ducie
27 Aug 2011 added note regarding the death of the first wife of Walter Elliot Elliot,
MP for Lanark 1918-1923, Kelvingrove 1924-1945 and 1950-1958 and
Scottish Universities 1946-1950
23 Aug 2011 added note regarding William Archibald Macdonald, MP for Ossory 1886-1892
23 Aug 2011 added notes relating to the peerages of Percy created in 1722, Strange
created in 1628 and Clifford, also created in 1628. In each case it was
wrongly assumed that ancient baronies were vested as subsidiary titles 
in higher ranked peerages, and were therefore available for use in "writs of
acceleration," where the eldest son and heir apparent of a peer can be 
summoned to the House of Lords. In these cases, the subsidiary peerage to
which the writ of acceleration applied were not vested as was assumed,
with the result that the writ had the effect of creating a new peerage,
and must therefore be considered as having been created in error.
23 Aug 2011 added note regarding George Galway Mills, MP for Wallingford
1804-1806, Mitchell 1807-1808 and Winchelsea 1818-1820
23 Aug 2011 recorded death of John Gilbert Layton PC [Canada] 2005
17 Aug 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir William Patrick Keith
Murray, 11th baronet [NS 1673]
17 Aug 2011 added note regarding Sir James Herbert Renals, 2nd baronet
17 Aug 2011 added note regarding the death of Hugh Raufe Grosvenor, only son
and heir of the 2nd Baron Stalbridge
3 Aug 2011 recorded death of Peter Duncan Crampton, MEP for 
Humberside 1989-1999
2 Aug 2011 recorded death of Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh [L]
28 Jul 2011 recorded death of John Thompson, MP for Wansbeck 1983-1997
28 Jul 2011 recorded death of Robert David Ross Dundas, 9th Viscount Melville
27 Jul 2011 recorded death of Terence George Boston, Baron Boston
of Faversham [L]
23 Jul 2011 added note regarding Sir Robert Burnham Renwick, 2nd baronet
and later [1964] 1st Baron Renwick
22 Jul 2011 recorded death of Lucian Freud OM CH
22 Jul 2011 added note regarding Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare
22 Jul 2011 added note regarding the peerage of Somerville
19 Jul 2011 added note regarding the death of Nigel Benjamin Cohen, son and
heir of Sir Herbert Benjamin Cohen, 2nd baronet
19 Jul 2011 expanded note regarding Courtenay Robert Percy Vernon, 4th
Baron Lyveden
19 Jul 2011 recorded appointment of Frank Mulholland to the Privy Council
18 Jul 2011 added note regarding a possible claimant to the baronetcy of
Stirling of Glorat [NS 1666] which has been dormant since 1949
18 Jul 2011 aded note regarding the "shifting remainder" to the Earldom
of Selkirk
18 Jul 2011 added note regarding the peerage of Wallscourt and, particularly,
the 5th Baron
16 Jul 2011 recorded death of Sir Timothy John Walsham, 5th baronet
16 Jul 2011 added note regarding the death of John Edmondson Whittaker,
MP for Heywood and Radcliffe July-Dec 1945
16 Jul 2011 added note regarding Charles Henry Chandos Henniker-Major,
6th Baron Henniker and 3rd Baron Hartismere
15 Jul 2011 added note regarding Sir Derrick Julius Wernher, 2nd baronet
15 Jul 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Andrew Henry Bouhier
Imbert-Terry, 4th baronet
15 Jul 2011 added note regarding the death of Keith David Wickenden, MP for
Dorking 1979-1983
15 Jul 2011 added note regarding the outcome of the general election held in
December 1910 in the constituency of Exeter
15 Jul 2011 added note regarding Lady Northcliffe, widow of the 1st and only
Viscount Northcliffe
14 Jul 2011 uploaded revised House of Commons pages which show which
elections were by-elections
12 Jul 2011 recorded death of George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
1 Jul 2011 recorded death of Robert Charles Reneke Hoyer Millar, 2nd Baron Inchyra
1 Jul 2011 recorded result of by-election held in the constituency of Inverclyde
following the death of David Cairns
27 Jun 2011 recorded death of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry [L]
26 Jun 2011 added note regarding George Grey and Charles Grey, brothers of the
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, both of whom died following encounters 
with wild animals in East Africa
25 Jun 2011 added note regarding Thomas Esmonde VC, brother of Sir John
Esmonde, 10th baronet
25 Jun 2011 recorded death of Sir John Keith Agnew, 6th baronet [UK 1895]
24 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of George Spence, MP for
Reading 1826-1827 and Ripon 1829-1832
24 Jun 2011 added note regarding Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
23 Jun 2011 added note regarding Raymond Hervey Lodge Joseph de
Montmorency VC, son of the 3rd Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency
23 Jun 2011 recorded death of James Harry Allason, MP for Hemel Hempstead
1959-1974. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former
member of the House of Commons
22 Jun 2011 added note regarding Edward Barry Stewart Bingham VC, son of 
the 5th Baron Clanmorris
22 Jun 2011 added note regarding Christopher Furness VC, son of the
1st Viscount Furness
21 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Hugh Joseph Nugent, 4th baronet
21 Jun 2011 added notes regarding William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers,
and Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers and his first wife
19 Jun 2011 recorded the striking out of the name of Elliot Anthony Morley
from the list of members of the Privy Council following his conviction
on two charges of false accounting
19 Jun 2011 added note regarding Sir Fulque Melville Gerard Noel Agnew,
10th baronet
17 Jun 2011 added note regarding Sir John Throckmorton, 5th baronet and the 
"Newbury Coat" which enabled him to win a wager in 1811
17 Jun 2011 added note under the Kingsale peerage regarding the privilege 
of being able to wear hats in the presence of the sovereign
16 Jun 2011 added notes regarding Sir Richard Broun, 8th baronet and the
"Colstoun Pear"
16 Jun 2011 added note regarding Sir Ludlow Cotter, son of Sir James Lawrence
Cotter, 4th baronet, the last person who was granted the honour of
knighthood on reaching age 21 by virtue of his being the eldest son
and heir of a baronet
15 Jun 2011 recorded death of Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron Dunsany
14 Jun 2011 added note regarding two claims to the Earldom of St.Vincent
14 Jun 2011 added note (under 'Lawrence-Jones') regarding Sir Lawrence Jones,
2nd baronet, who was murdered by Turkish brigands in November 1845
13 Jun 2011 added note regarding Sir Norman Robert Leslie, who was murdered
by rebel soldiers in the Indian Mutiny
12 Jun 2011 recorded the appointment of Michael Howard, Baron Howard of
Lympne [L] as a Companion of Honour
12 Jun 2011 recorded the appontment of 4 new Privy Counsellors
12 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Edmund Beecroft Heathcote
Lacon, 5th baronet
12 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence,
1st baronet
10 Jun 2011 recorded result of by-election held in Belfast West following the
resignation of Gerry Adams
9 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death, at age 13, of Sir John Ridley 
Evelyn Bradford, 4th baronet
6 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Walter Blunt, 5th baronet
6 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of the Countess of Cottenham,
wife of the 4th Earl
6 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Justin Gerald Aylmer,
10th baronet 
6 Jun 2011 recorded death of Sir Philip Welsby Holland, MP for Acton 1959-1964,
Carlton 1966-1983 and Gedling 1983-1987
5 Jun 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Richard Hugh Barlow, 6th baronet
4 Jun 2011 recorded death of Roger Michael Davies, 3rd Baron Darwen
4 Jun 2011 added note regarding the court case fought between the 6th Earl
of Egmont and Sir William Lionel Darell, 4th baronet, over the estates
of the 5th Earl of Egmont
3 Jun 2011 added note regarding 'The Legend of Spedlins Tower,' former home
of the baronets Jardine of Applegirth
31 May 2011 recorded death of Digby Michael Godfrey John Willoughby,
12th Baron Middleton
31 May 2011 added note regarding William Henry Grenfell, 1st and only Baron
Desborough, whose premature obituary was published 24 years
before his death
31 May 2011 added note regarding Robert Gent-Davis, MP for Kennington 1885-1889
31 May 2011 added note (under Campbell-Orde) regarding Sir John Powlett
Orde, 2nd baronet
31 May 2011 added note regarding Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth, MP for Chelsea
1880-1885 and Dundee 1888-1889
28 May 2011 added note regarding Henry Byron Reed, MP for Bradford East
1886-1892 and 1895-1896
28 May 2011 added note regarding the death of Michael Keith Beale Colvin, MP
for Romsey 1997-2000
27 May 2011 recorded death of Sir Edmund George Felix Paston-Bedingfeld,
9th baronet
26 May 2011 added note regarding George William Thomas Brudenell-Bruce,
4th Marquess of Ailesbury
25 May 2011 recorded death of Robert William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth [L]
25 May 2011 recorded death of Sir Roger Jocelyn Parker [PC 1983]
24 May 2011 revised note regarding Sir Charles Wentworth Burdett, 7th baronet
24 May 2011 added note regarding the death of Charles Paget, MP for 
Nottingham 1856-1865
22 May 2011 added note regarding Derrick Warner William Westenra, 5th
Baron Rossmore
22 May 2011 added note regarding the death of Charles Russell, MP for Reading
1830-1837 and 1841-1847
20 May 2011 added note regarding William Compton Carr, MP for Barons 
Court 1959-1964
20 May 2011 added note regarding Arthur Stuart, 7h Earl of Castle Stewart
18 May 2011 recorded death of Robert Kenneth Litherland, MP for Manchester
Central 1979-1997
18 May 2011 recorded death of Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow,
7th Earl of Onslow
15 May 2011 added note regarding Sir Alexander James Dunbar, 4th baronet
15 May 2011 added note regarding Sir Frank Sanderson, 1st baronet
14 May 2011 recorded death of Michael David Morris, 3rd Baron Morris
14 May 2011 added note regarding Sir John Croke, 1st baronet
13 May 2011 added note regarding Lettice Digby, Baroness Offaly in her own right
13 May 2011 recorded death of Sir Kenelm Ernest Lee Guinness, 4th baronet
12 May 2011 recorded death of John David Cairns, MP for Greenock & Inverclyde
2001-2005 and Inverclyde since 2005
9 May 2011 added note regarding John Colborne, son of 1st Baron Seaton
7 May 2011 recorded result of by-election held in Leicester South following the
resignation of Sir Peter Soulsby
6 May 2011 added notes regarding the baronetcies for Sir Andrew Hills and Sir
Coleridge Kennard, both of whom were created baronets while they
were small children
6 May 2011 added regarding the death of Sir Charles William Cayzer, 3rd baronet
and MP for Chester 1922-1940
4 May 2011 added noted regarding the death of Lord North, son of the 8th Earl
of Guilford
4 May 2011 added anecdote relating to Dudley Churchill Marjoribanks, 3rd Baron
Tweedmouth
3 May 2011 added note regarding the death of Angus William Eden Holden,
3rd Baron Holden
1 May 2011 added note regarding Sir Henry Ralph Stanley Birkin, 3rd baronet
30 Apr 2011 recorded death of Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, baronetess (11th in line),
until her death the only living baronetess
30 Apr 2011 recorded death of Sir John Denis Mahon CH
30 Apr 2011 recorded creation of peerages for Prince William of Wales, who now
becomes Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus
28 Apr 2011 added note regarding Hugh Hamon Charles George Massy, 8th Baron Massy
27 Apr 2011 recorded death of William Craig, MP for Belfast East 1974-1979
27 Apr 2011 recorded death of Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
25 Apr 2011 added note regarding Sir Alexander Logie Elphinstone, 10th baronet
25 Apr 2011 added note regarding Alexander Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon
23 Apr 2011 recorded appointments of Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth
Matravers and Michael Cecil Boyce,Baron Boyce as Knights of the Garter
18 Apr 2011 recorded death of Allan Emrys Blakeney [PC Canada 1982]
16 Apr 2011 recorded death of Sir Edward Courtenay Henry Warner, 3rd baronet
13 Apr 2011 added note regarding Sir Arthur Henderson Fairbairn, 3rd baronet
12 Apr 2011 added note regarding John Kynaston Cross, MP for Bolton 1874-1885
11 Apr 2011 recorded death of Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton
6 Apr 2011 added note regarding the deaths of Sir John Holdsworth Dimsdale,
2nd baronet, and his wife
6 Apr 2011 added note regarding Augustus Frederick Keppel, 5th Earl of Albemarle
6 Apr 2011 added note regarding Robert Henry King, 4th Earl of Kingston
5 Apr 2011 recorded death of Sir George Howland Francis Beaumont, 12th
baronet [E 1661]. The baronetcy now becomes extinct
5 Apr 2011 recorded death of Llewellyn Roger Lloyd Lloyd-Mostyn, 6th Baron Mostyn
28 Mar 2011 recorded death of Thady Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 7th
Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl. This peerage now becomes extinct.
23 Mar 2011 added note regarding the history of the baronetcy of Mitchell
of West Shore
22 Mar 2011 recorded appointment of George Nigel Hannington Emslie, Lord 
Emslie [Scottish Lord of Session] to the Privy Council
21 Mar 2011 added note regarding the alleged "Curse of the Cravens" which supposedly
condemns all male members of the Craven family to early deaths
21 Mar 2011 added note regarding a claim to the Earldom of Breadalbane and Holland
made in 2000 by a member of the Hungarian branch of the family
13 Mar 2011 recorded appointment of Dame Jill Margaret Black, Sir Peter Henry
Gross and Sir Stephen Miles Tomlinson to the Privy Council
10 Mar 2011 recorded death of Sir Patrick Robert Richard Sinclair, 10th baronet of
Dunbeath [NS 1704]
9 Mar 2011 added note regarding the drowning death of Sir Gilbert East, 2nd baronet
9 Mar 2011 added note regarding a potential claimant to the Earldom of Lindsay
who received publicity in Australian newspapers in 1913, but who does
not appear to have pursued any claim he may have had
9 Mar 2011 added note regarding the baronetcy of Cox of Dunmanway, and
an unsuccessful claim to it made in 1915
9 Mar 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir James Colquhoun, 4th baronet
7 Mar 2011 recorded result of by-election held in Barnsley Central following 
the resignation of Eric Illsley
5 Mar 2011 recorded death of Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy  [PC 1981]
4 Mar 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for David John Maclean, who took 
the title of Baron Blencathra
2 Mar 2011 added note regarding Sir Robert Alan Clayton-East-Clayton, 9th baronet
2 Mar 2011 added note regarding Sir Reginald Beatty Wolseley, 10th baronet, 
who kept his title a secret while working as an elevator operator in America
2 Mar 2011 added note regarding the drowning death of Gabriel Price, MP
for Hemsworth 1931-1934
2 Mar 2011 added note regarding the drowning death of Anthony Bingham
Mildmay, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete
2 Mar 2011 added note regarding the death of John Edward Deane Browne,
5th Baron Kilmaine
2 Mar 2011 added note under the Lawson-Tancred baronets regarding the death
of Sir Thomas Selby Tancred, 8th baronet
1 Mar 2011 added note regarding the death of Basil Arthur John Peto, MP for the
King's Norton division of Birmingham 1941-1945
1 Mar 2011 added note regarding Charles Henry Sitch, MP for Kingswinford
1918-1931 who was imprisoned for fraudulent conversion and falsification
of accounts
27 Feb 2011 added note regarding Sir Philip John Frederick Pilditch, who committed
suicide in 1954 while his wife was pregnant, causing the succession to
the baronetcy to be held in abeyance pending the birth of the child
27 Feb 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Hylton Brisco, 5th baronet, who
vanished from a P & O liner off Colombo in 1922
27 Feb 2011 added to the Scottish Lords of Session page a listing of Chairmen of the
Scottish Land Court, who are also entitled to the title of 'Lord'
27 Feb 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Hervey Ronald Bruce, 5th baronet
27 Feb 2011 expanded note regarding Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, whose creation as a
baronet in 1895 caused somewhat of a scandal, and added a note 
regarding Sir Albert Naylor-Leyland, 2nd baronet
19 Feb 2011 added two notes regarding the de Grey family (Barons Walsingham);
one relating to the family's connection with the tradition of the "Babes
in the Wood" and the other which relates to the deaths of the 3rd
Baron Walsingham and his wife in a house fire in 1831
18 Feb 2011 recorded death of George Brydges Rodney, 10th Baron Rodney
15 Feb 2011 recorded death of Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford [L]
15 Feb 2011 recorded death of John Monson, 11th Baron Monson
14 Feb 2011 added note regarding the marriage of Sir John William Frederick
Fagge, 11th baronet
10 Feb 2011 added note regarding the death of Hardington Arthur Bartlett, son
and heir of Sir Herbert Henry Bartlett, 1st baronet
9 Feb 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir Stephen Charles 
de Lancey Aitchison, 3rd baronet
9 Feb 2011 added note regarding the death of Sir William Rattigan, MP for
Lanarkshire North East 1901-1904
8 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Maurice Mark Glasman, who 
took the title of Baron Glasman
8 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sarah Virginia Brinton, who 
took the title of Baroness Brinton
5 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Michael David Bishop, who
took the title of Baron Glendonbrook
5 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Nicol Ross Stephen, who took
the title of Baron Stephen
3 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Mike Storey, who took the title
of Baron Storey
3 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for David Laurence Gold, who took 
the title of Baron Gold
3 Feb 2011 recorded death of George Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield [L]
2 Feb 2011 recorded appointments of Simon Burns and Elfyn Llwyd to the Privy Council
2 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Bryony Katherine Worthington, who
took the title of Baroness Worthington
1 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Ruth Lister, who took the title
of Baroness Lister of Burtersett
1 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Graham Eric (Jock) Stirrup,
who took the title of Baron Stirrup
1 Feb 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Claire Tyler, who took the title
of Baroness Tyler of Enfield
31 Jan 2011 recorded death of Christopher Richard Glyn, 7th Baron Wolverton
29 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon, who
took the title of Baron Noon
29 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson, who
took the title of Baroness Randerson
29 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Oona Tamsyn King, who took
the title of Baroness King of Bow
28 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Anne Caroline Jenkin, who took
the title of Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
27 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael Ian Grade, who took the
title of Baron Grade of Yarmouth
27 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for George Morgan Magan, who took 
the title of Baron Magan of Castletown
27 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Mair Eluned Morgan, who took
the title of Baroness Morgan of Ely
27 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum,
who took the title of Baron Kestenbaum
26 Jan 2011 recorded death of Philip Roy Gallie, MP for Ayr 1992-1997
25 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Dame Joan Dawson Bakewell, who
took the title of Baroness Bakewell
25 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Rachel Heyhoe Flint, who took
the title of Baroness Heyhoe Flint
24 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Qurban Hussain, who took
the title of Baron Hussain
24 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Raymond Edward Harry Collins,
who took the title of Baron Collins of Highbury
24 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Dafydd Wynne Wigley, who took
the title of Baron Wigley
24 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Francis Richard Dannatt, who
took the title of Baron Dannatt
21 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Elizabeth Rose Berridge, who
took the title of Baroness Berridge
21 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Stanley Fink, who took the title
of Baron Fink
20 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Monroe Edward Palmer, who 
took the title of Baron Palmer of Childs Hill
20 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Benjamin Stoneham, who took
the title of Baron Stoneham of Droxford
20 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Reginald Norman Morgan Empey,
who took the title of Baron Empey
19 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Stewart Martin Wood,
who took the title of Baron Wood of Anfield
19 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Michael Nicholson Lord,
who took the title of Baron Framlingham
19 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Robert Norman Edmiston,
who took the title of Baron Edmiston
18 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Howard Emerson Flight,
who took the title of Baron Flight
18 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Tariq Mahmood Ahmad, who took
who took the title of Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon
18 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Rajinda Paul Loomba, who took
the title of Baron Loomba
18 Jan 2011 recorded death of Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of
Oxford & Asquith
15 Jan 2011 recorded death of Alec Woodall, MP for Hemsworth 1974-1987
15 Jan 2011 recorded result of by-election in Oldham East and Saddleworth,
following the loss by Phil Woolas of the seat as a result of his being found to
have breached the Representation of the People Act 1983
13 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes,
who took the title of Baron Fellowes of West Stafford
13 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Gordon Joshua Wasserman, who took the
title of Baron Wasserman
13 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Jonathan Marks, who took the
title of Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames
12 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Paul Cline Strasburger, who took the title
of Baron Strasburger
12 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Tina Wendy Stowell, who took the title
of Baroness Stowell of Beeston
7 Jan 2011 recorded death of Adam Edward Giffard, 4th Earl of Halsbury. This
peerage, together with its subsidiary titles, now becomes extinct
6 Jan 2011 recorded death of Sir William Napier Maurice Miles, 6th baronet [UK 1859]
1 Jan 2011 recorded appointments of 8 new Privy Counsellors
1 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Richard John Grenville Spring, who
took the title of Baron Risby
1 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Judith Anne Jolly, who took
the title of Baroness Jolly
1 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Alistair Basil Cooke, who took
the title of Baron Lexden
1 Jan 2011 recorded creation of life peerage for Nicholas Edward True, who took
the title of Baron True
1 Jan 2011 recorded death of David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron
Strabolgi
31 Dec 2010 added note which explains the reason for the existence of two 
Earldoms of Mar
31 Dec 2010 expanded note regarding Anne, wife of Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of
Kellie, and Joanna, wife of Methven Erskine, 10th Earl of Kellie
30 Dec 2010 recorded death (at the age of 101) of Sir Richard Michael Keane,
6th baronet [UK 1801]
30 Dec 2010 recorded death of Sir Henry George Morton Peto, 4th baronet [UK 1855]
28 Dec 2010 recorded death of Sir Iain Andrew Noble, 3rd baronet [UK 1923]
28 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Patience Jane Wheatcroft, who
took the title of Baroness Wheatcroft
28 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Susan Veronica Kramer, who
took the title of Baroness Kramer
24 Dec 2010 recorded death of David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham
and Baron Hennessy for life
22 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Elizabeth Diedre Doocey, who took
the title of Baroness Doocey
22 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Fiona Sara Shackleton, who took
the title of Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia
22 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, who took
the title of Baron Ribeiro
22 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Kevin Sharkey, who took the
title of Baron Sharkey
21 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Patrick Thomas Cormack,
who took the title of Baron Cormack
21 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Robert George Alexander
Balchin, who took the title of Baron Lingfield
21 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Andrew Simon Feldman, who
took the title of Baron Feldman of Elstree
21 Dec 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael John Dobbs, who
took the title of Baron Dobbs
18 Dec 2010 recorded death of Sterling Rufus Lyon, PC [Canada] 1982
17 Dec 2010 added an amusing anecdote regarding Jane, wife of Baron Brampton
17 Dec 2010 expanded note regarding Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
15 Dec 2010 recorded death of Sir Henry Wemyss Feilden, 6th baronet  [UK 1846]
13 Dec 2010 recorded death of William John Thompson, MP for Tyrone West
1997-2001
12 Dec 2010 the recent publication of "Who's Who" for 2011 reveals a number of
deaths of which I was not previously aware, but thanks to the work of
Richard Rutter I have now recorded the deaths of:-
* Sir Stephen John Arthur, 6th baronet [UK 1841]
* Sir Hugh Michael Trevor Dawson, 4th baronet [UK 1920]
* Sir Christopher Anthony Leeds, 8th baronet [UK 1812]
* Sir Peter van Notten Pole, 5th baronet [GB 1791]
* Kenneth Oliver Musgrave St.John, 7th Viscount Bolingbroke and
   8th Viscount St.John
4 Dec 2010 added note regarding Sir Michael Oppenheimer, 2nd baronet,who 
died in a plane crash in September 1933
4 Dec 2010 added note regarding Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st baronet, subject of
an assassination attempt in Johannesburg in December 1913
4 Dec 2010 added note regarding Sir Thomas Judkin-Fitzgerald, 3rd baronet,
who drowned himself in 1864
23 Nov 2010 recorded death of Sir David Boswell Egerton, 16th baronet [E 1617]
23 Nov 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael Andrew Foster Jude
Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, who took the title of Baron Kerr of Monteviot
21 Nov 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Stephen Keith Green, who took
the title of Baron Green of Hurstpierpont
21 Nov 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sheila Clare Hollins, who took
the title of Baroness Hollins
20 Nov 2010 details announced of 53 intended new life peerages. These will be
added to the relevant pages as they are created
 
17 Nov 2010 added note regarding Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 2nd Baron St.Leonards
17 Nov 2010 added note regarding Sir Charles Arthur Fairlie-Cuninghame, 11th baronet
17 Nov 2010 added note regarding the death of William Felix Laurence Austin
Munster, MP for Mallow 1872-1874
15 Nov 2010 added note regarding Alexander William Black, MP for Banffshire
1900-1906, who died from injuries received in a train crash
15 Nov 2010 added note (under Knights of the Garter) regarding Prince Alfred,
Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
13 Nov 2010 recorded death of Elizabeth Patricia Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour [L]
12 Nov 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Peter John Hennessy, who took
the title of Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield
8 Nov 2010 added note regarding Lord Malcolm Avondale Douglas-Hamilton, MP
for Inverness 1950-1954, who disappeared while flying between Liberia
and Cameroon in July 1964
6 Nov 2010 recorded appointment of Robert Neil MacGregor to the Order of Merit
5 Nov 2010 recorded death of Sir Frederick Devereux Pile, 3rd baronet
2 Nov 2010 added note regarding Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, who was
sworn of the Privy Council in 1894, but who died immediately after
the ceremony
2 Nov 2010 added note regarding the attempted assassination of the Duke of
Edinburgh during his visit to Sydney in 1868
29 Oct 2010 added note regarding Thomas Grosvenor Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton
17 Oct 2010 recorded death of Sir Quentin Charles Agnew-Somerville, 2nd baronet
[UK 1957]
16 Oct 2010 recorded death of Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton
and Baron Acton of Bridgnorth [L]
14 Oct 2010 recorded death of Sir Hugo Martin Wedgwood, 3rd baronet [UK 1942]
12 Oct 2010 recorded death of Dame Joan Alston Sutherland OM
2 Oct 2010 recorded death of Sir Vincent Frederick Floissac  [PC 1992]
30 Sep 2010 added note regarding the attempted murder of Frederick Oliver
Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown
30 Sep 2010 added note regarding the death of Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd baronet,
together with details of the Goldsmid family
26 Sep 2010 added note regarding the death of Sir Henry John Seton, 6th baronet,
who was run down by a hansom cab
26 Sep 2010 added note regarding the death of William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam,
MP for Peterborough 1878-1889
26 Sep 2010 added note regarding the election of the poet Robert Southey
in Downton in 1826, where he was returned without his knowledge
23 Sep 2010 added note regarding George Noble Plunkett, MP for Roscommon North
1917-1922 
23 Sep 2010 added note regarding Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, 3rd baronet and MP for
County Clare 1877-1879 which discusses whether an office in a colonial
government was a place of profit under the Crown, acceptance
of which disqualified the holder from membership of the House of Commons
22 Sep 2010 recorded death of William Wilson, MP for Coventry South 1964-1974
and Coventry South East 1974-1983
22 Sep 2010 added note regarding the death of Sir Robert John Harvey
Harvey, 1st baronet
19 Sep 2010 added note regarding Edward Anthony James Lytton, styled Viscount
Knebworth, MP for Hitchin 1931-1933, who was killed in an air crash
19 Sep 2010 added note regarding Joseph Dodds, MP for Stockton 1868-1888
17 Sep 2010 recorded death of Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey, Baron Livsey [L],
MP for Brecon & Radnor 1985-1992 and 1997-2001
16 Sep 2010 added note regarding Sir Timothy Carew O'Brien, 3rd baronet
16 Sep 2010 added note regarding the death of Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh,
MP for Warwickshire South 1880-1884
12 Sep 2010 recorded death of Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of 
Cornhill  KG
7 Sep 2010 recorded death of Sir Robin Charles Everard, 4th baronet  [UK 1911]
5 Sep 2010 recorded death of Sir Cyril Smith, MP for Rochdale 1972-1992
4 Sep 2010 recorded death of Sir Colville Herbert Sanford Barclay, 14th
baronet  [NS 1668]
31 Aug 2010 added note regarding the death of Alexander MacCallum Scott,
MP for Bridgeton 1910-1922
31 Aug 2010 recorded death of Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate [L]
and MP for Hemel Hempstead 1979-1983, Bedfordshire Mid 1983-1997
and Bedfordahire North East 1997-2001
30 Aug 2010 recorded death of Andrew Robert McIntosh, Baron McIntosh
of Haringey [L]
29 Aug 2010 recorded death of Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 3rd
Baron Glenconner
27 Aug 2010 recorded death of Sir John Timothy Harford, 3rd baronet  [UK 1934]
27 Aug 2010 recorded death of Sir Andrew Rupert John Buchanan-Jardine,
4th baronet  [UK 1885]
25 Aug 2010 recorded death of Sir David Charles Kenneth Gordon Innes, 12th baronet
[NS 1686]
13 Aug 2010 recorded death of Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, MP for Holborn
and St.Pancras South 1959-1964, East Grinstead 1965-1983 and
Wealden 1983-2001
6 Aug 2010 recorded death of Sir John Michael Gorst, MP for Hendon
North 1970-1997
6 Aug 2010 recorded death of James Bryan Bellew, 7th Baron Bellew
3 Aug 2010 recorded death of Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd George 
of Dwyfor
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Stephen Monks, who
took the title of Baron Monks
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael Charles Williams,
who took the title of Baron Williams of Baglan
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Desmond Henry Browne, who
took the title of Baron Browne of Ladyton
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Richard Beecroft Allan, who
took the title of Baron Allan of Hallam
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Dame Ellen Margaret Eaton,
who took the title of Baroness Eaton
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Edward Peter Lawless Faulks, who
took the title of Baron Faulks
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Jeremy Hugh Beecham, who
took the title of Baron Beecham
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Ian Warwick Blair, who
took the title of Baron Blair of Boughton
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Anna Mary Healy, who took 
the title of Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Susan Jane Nye, who took 
the title of Baroness Nye
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Reid, who took the
title of Baron Reid of Cardowen
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Matthew Owen John Taylor,
who took the title of Baron Taylor of Goss Moor
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Beverley June Hughes, who
took the title of Baroness Hughes of Stretford
31 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Kathryn Jane Parminter, who
took the title of Baroness Parminter
27 Jul 2010 recorded death of Sir John Charles Buchanan Riddell, 13th baronet
[NS 1628]
26 Jul 2010 recorded death of Sir William Whytehead Boulton, 4th baronet
20 Jul 2010 recorded appointments to the Privy Council of Dame Janet Paraskeva
and Peter John Robert Riddell
20 Jul 2010 recorded death of Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras  [CH 2003]
19 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Helen Newlove, who took
the title of Baroness Newlove
19 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Shipley,who took
the title of Baron Shipley
15 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael Howard, who took
the title of Baron Howard of Lympne
15 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Robert Wilfrid Stevenson,
who took the title of Baron Stevenson of Balmacara
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Kenneth Donald John
Macdonald, who took the title of Baron Macdonald of River Glaven
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Deborah Stedman-Scott,
who took the title of Baroness Stedman-Scott
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Dolar Amarshi Popat,
who took the title of Baron Popat
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael David Wills,
who took the title of Baron Wills
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Angela Frances Browning,
who took the title of Baroness Browning
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Guy Vaughn Black,
who took the title of Baron Black of Brentwell
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Timothy Eric Boswell,
who took the title of Baron Boswell of Aynho
14 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir William Michael Hardy Spicer,
who took the title of Baron Spicer
10 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Helen Lawrie Liddell,
who took the title of Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
8 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Leslie Prescott,
who took the title of Baron Prescott
8 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Angela Evans Smith,
who took the title of Baroness Smith of Basildon
8 Jul 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Quentin Davies,
who took the title of Baron Davies of Stamford
2 Jul 2010 recorded death of Kenneth Sidney Coates, MEP for Nottingham
1989-1994 and Nottingham North and Chesterfield 1994-1999
30 Jun 2010 added note regarding Henry Vansittart, MP for Reading 1768-1770
30 Jun 2010 recorded death of Sir John Devereux Ward, MP for Poole 1979-1997
30 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for James Donnelly Touhig,
who took the title of Baron Touhig
30 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Jack Wilson McConnell,
who took the title of Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale
30 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Paul Yaw Boateng,
who took the title of Baron Boateng
30 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Matthew Patrick Hutton,
who took the title of Baron Hutton of Furness
30 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Rita Margaret Donaghy,
who took the title of Baroness Donaghy
30 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin,
who took the title of Baroness Benjamin
29 Jun 2010 recorded death of Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers [L]
27 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Shireen Olive Ritchie,
who took the title of Baroness Ritchie of Brompton
27 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Meral Hussein Ece,
who took the title of Baroness Hussein-Ece
27 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael James German,
who took the title of Baron German
25 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Cradock Maples,
who took the title of Baron Maples
25 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Gardiner, who took
the title of Baron Gardiner of Kimble
25 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for James Philip Knight,
who took the title of Baron Knight of Weymouth
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy,
who took the title of Baron McAvoy
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Dianne Hayter,
who took the title of Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Roy Francis Kennedy,
who took the title of Baron Kennedy of Southwark
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Margaret Eileen Joyce Wheeler,
who took the title of Baroness Wheeler
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Jean Leslie Patricia Drake,
who took the title of Baroness Drake
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Ian Richard Kyle Paisley,
who took the title of Baron Bannside
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Hilary Jane Armstrong,
who took the title of Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for George Philip Willis,
who took the title of Baron Willis of Knaresborough
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Simon Adam Wolfson,
who took the title of Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Francis McFall, 
who took the title of Baron McFall of Alcluith
24 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock,
who took the title of Baroness Sherlock
24 Jun 2010 recorded death of Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of
Worcester [L]
24 Jun 2010 recorded death of Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail [L]
24 Jun 2010 recorded death of Sir Ashley Charles Gibbs Ponsonby, 2nd baronet
22 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for John Selwyn Gummer,
who took the title of Baron Deben
22 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Roger John Liddle,
who took the title of Baron Liddle
22 Jun 2010 recorded death of Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton [L]
21 Jun 2010 recorded death of Dame Angela Claire Rosemary Rumbold, MP for
Mitcham and Morden 1982-1997 and PC 1991
20 Jun 2010 added note regarding the death of Thomas Owen, MP for Launceston 
1892-1898
20 Jun 2010 added note regarding John Charles Henry FitzGibbon, styled
Viscount FitzGibbon, son of the 3rd Earl of Clare
15 Jun 2010 recorded death of Sir Benedict Leigh Hoskyns, 16th baronet
14 Jun 2010 recorded death of Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith, Baroness
Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn [L]
9 Jun 2010 recorded death of Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, 5th baronet. Sir Charles
died two years ago (25 May 2008), but I have only now learned of
his death. My thanks to Brendon Johnson of Courtenay, British
Columbia, for his advising me of Sir Charles' death
7 Jun 2010 recorded death of Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of
Hamilton and 12th Duke of Brandon
4 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir James Meyer Sassoon,
who took the title of Baron Sassoon
4 Jun 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Nathanael Ming-Yan Wei,
who took the title of Baron Wei
2 Jun 2010 recorded death of Rudolf Jan Vis, MP for Finchley and Golders
Green 1997-2010
2 Jun 2010 recorded death of Dufferin Roblin, PC [Canada] 1967
28 May 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Jonathan Hopkin Hill, who
took the title of Baron Hill of Oareford
28 May 2010 added details of a further six new appointments to the Privy Council
28 May 2010 details announced of 56 new life peerages to be created following
the recent change in government in the UK. These will be added to the
relevant pages as they are created.
23 May 2010 recorded death of Leonard Gordon Wolfson,Baron Wolfson. He also
held a baronetcy which now becomes extinct
15 May 2010 recorded death of Sir Charles Barrie Knight Mantell [PC 1997]
15 May 2010 amended "Father of the House of Commons" page to show
that Sir Peter Tapsell is the new "Father of the House" following the
recent general election. At the same time, I have included a new
section which lists the "Babies of the House" since 1885, being the
youngest member of the House at any point in time.
14 May 2010 following the recent UK General Election and the formation
of a coalition government, added details of 27 new Privy Counsellors
13 May 2010 recorded death of Sir Herbert Hugh Hambling, 3rd baronet
11 May 2010 uploaded revised House of Commons pages which reflect the
changes arising from the recent UK General Election
29 Apr 2010 recorded death of Denzil Kingston Freeth, MP for Basingstoke 1955-1964
28 Apr 2010 recorded death of Edward Lyons, MP for Bradford East 1966-1974
and Bradford West 1974-1983
27 Apr 2010 recorded death of George John Patrick Dominic Townshend,
7th Marquess Townshend.  The late Marquess held the record 
for the peer who held his peerage for the longest period ever - 
88 years, 157 days
21 Apr 2010 recorded death of Peter Charles Oliver Harvey, 2nd Baron
Harvey of Tasburgh
20 Apr 2010 recorded death of William Yates, MP for The Wrekin 1955-1966
16 Apr 2010 recorded death of Robert Thomas Ellis, MP for Wrexham 1970-1983
and MEP 1975-1979
14 Apr 2010 recorded death of Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
14 Apr 2010 recorded death of John Mark Alexander Colville, 4th Viscount
Colville of Culross
10 Apr 2010 recorded death of Peter Edward Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury
7 Apr 2010 added note regarding the death of Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st baronet
7 Apr 2010 added note regarding the marriage of Sir John Stirling, 5th baronet
[NS 1666]
7 Apr 2010 added note regarding the death of Edward Henry John Cornwallis Eliot,
styled Lord Eliot, son and heir of the 5th Earl of St.Germans
7 Apr 2010 added note regarding Sir Edmund Arthur Lechmere, 4th baronet
7 Apr 2010 added note regarding the death of Sir George James Graham
Lewis, 2nd baronet
5 Apr 2010 added note regarding the murder by the IRA of Sir Charles Norman
Lockhart Stronge, 8th baronet and his son, James Matthew Stronge,
9th baronet
3 Apr 2010 recorded death of Sir Henry Lawson-Tancred, 10th baronet [E 1662]
1 Apr 2010 recorded death of Sir Michael David Aykroyd, 4th baronet [UK 1920]
31 Mar 2010 recorded death of Sir John Napoleon Ruthven Barran, 4th baronet
30 Mar 2010 recorded death of David John MacRae Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk
30 Mar 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Michael George
Bichard, who took the title of Baron Bichard
30 Mar 2010 recorded death of Sir Denis Robert Maurice Henry [PC 1993]
26 Mar 2010 recorded death of Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée Park,
Baroness Park of Monmouth
25 Mar 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Dame Tanni Carys Davina
Grey-Thompson, who took the title of Baroness Grey-Thompson
23 Mar 2010 recorded death of Sir James Whyte Black [OM 2000]
23 Mar 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Ajay Kumar Kakkar, who
took the title of Baron Kakkar
23 Mar 2010 recorded creation of life peerage for Anthony William Hall, who
took the title of Baron Hall of Birkenhead
17 Mar 2010 added note regarding Sir George Albert Larpent, 3rd baronet
17 Mar 2010 added note regarding the "Lee Penny," a famous Scottish amulet
owned by the Lockhart family from whom the Lockhart baronets were
descended
17 Mar 2010 added note regarding Toby Caulfeild, 3rd Baron Charlemont,
who was murdered during the Irish Rebellion in 1642
17 Mar 2010 expanded note regarding Adeline, Countess of Cardigan, wife of the
7th Earl of Cardigan
16 Mar 2010 recorded death of Ashok Kumar, MP for Langbaurgh 1991-1992
and Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland since 1997
15 Mar 2010 added note regarding Lady Blanche Noel, daughter of the 2nd Earl
of Gainsborough
15 Mar 2010 added note regarding George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
15 Mar 2010 added note regarding Sir Duncan Alexander Dundas Campbell,
3rd baronet, of Barcaldine, Argyll
15 Mar 2010 added note regarding Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
12 Mar 2010 recorded death of Fiennes Neil Wykeham Cornwallis, 3rd
Baron Cornwallis
11 Mar 2010 recorded death of Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown
9 Mar 2010 added note regarding Sir John Norton-Griffiths, 1st baronet
4 Mar 2010 recorded death of Michael Foot, MP for Devonport 1945-1955, Ebbw
Vale 1960-1983 and Blaenau Gewnt 1983-1992
3 Mar 2010 recorded death of Winston Spencer Churchill, grandson of Britain's
war-time leader, and MP for Stretford 1970-1983 and Davyhulme
1983-1997
2 Mar 2010 added note regarding the death in a plane-crash of Terence 
Conyngham Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket
2 Mar 2010 added note regarding Sir John Stuart Knill, 3rd baronet
22 Feb 2010 returned from cruising the South Pacific aboard the "Sun
Princess" (my contribution towards resolving the Global Financial
Crisis) to discover that a bunch of updates have become necessary
in my absence. Specifically…..
recorded death of Albert Edward Booth, MP for Barrow in Furness
1966-1983 and PC 1976
recorded death of Sir Hervey James Hugh Bruce-Clifton, 7th
baronet [UK 1804]
recorded death of William Heward Grafftey [PC Canada 1979]
following an email from William Stotesbury-Leeson of London, Ontario,
amended the details shown under baronetcy of Bourne of Hackinsall Hall
recorded appointment to the Privy Council of Sir Christopher
John Pitchford
28 Jan 2010 recorded death of Sir Dermot Humphrey de Trafford, 6th
baronet [UK 1841]
28 Jan 2010 recorded death of Sir Percy Cradock [PC 1993]
26 Jan 2010 recorded death of Fitzroy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan
24 Jan 2010 recorded death of Derek Prag, MEP for Hertfordshire 1979-1994
24 Jan 2010 recorded death of Serge Marcil, PC [Canada] 2003
23 Jan 2010 recorded death of Gordon William Humphreys Richardson,
Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne
20 Jan 2010 recorded death of Sir Robert John Maxwell-Hyslop, MP for
Tiverton 1960-1992
14 Jan 2010 recorded death of Sir Reginald Anthony Hungerford Lechmere,
7th baronet [UK 1818]
7 Jan 2010 added note regarding the successful claim made to the barony
of Barnard by Henry de Vere Vane in May 1892
7 Jan 2010 recorded death of Graham Douglas Leonard, Bishop of London
1981-1991 and PC 1981
6 Jan 2010 recorded 3 deaths of baronets from 2007 and 2008 of which I have 
only now learned - Sir Philip Overington Blunden,7th baronet [I 1766]
who died 9 April 2007, Sir Harry Holmes Miller, 12th baronet [E 1705]
who died 28 December 2007 and Sir Nigel Hugh St. George Gore,
14th baronet [I 1622] who died 23 September 2008
6 Jan 2010 recorded death of Sir Godfrey Victor Ralli, 3rd baronet  [UK 1912]
6 Jan 2010 recorded death of Sir Charles Gundry Alexander, 2nd baronet [UK 1945]
3 Jan 2010 recorded death of Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough
31 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Thomas George Apreece, 2nd baronet
30 Dec 2009 added note regarding Alan James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-
Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Wharncliffe
30 Dec 2009 added note regarding the claim made to the Fletcher-Vane
baronetcy between 1872 and 1876
30 Dec 2009 recorded death of John Herbert Meade, 7th Earl of Clanwilliam
30 Dec 2009 added note regarding the shootings at Knowsley Hall in 1952, in which
the Countess of Derby was wounded and two men were killed by
a deranged footman
28 Dec 2009 recorded death of David Leslie Taylor, MP for Leicestershire
North West since 1997
23 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Charles Lawes (later Lawes-Wittewronge),
2nd baronet
23 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir William Neville Abdy, 2nd baronet of the
1850 creation, and his wives
21 Dec 2009 added note regarding Dame Maureen Daisy Helen Dunbar,
baronetess of Hempriggs (eighth in line)
21 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Brodrick Cecil Denham Arkwright
Hartwell, 4th baronet
13 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Claud James Rivett-Carnac, whose
death in 1909 was presumed by the Courts in 1924
13 Dec 2009 added note (under the Earls of Durham) regarding the medieval
legend of the "Lambton Worm"
10 Dec 2009 expanded note regarding the history of the Earldom of Milltown
10 Dec 2009 added note regarding the suicide of Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry
9 Dec 2009 added note regarding Deborah Speelman, and in particular a
discussion on whether she was created a baronetess in 1686
9 Dec 2009 added note (under Rosebery) regarding John Primrose, styled 
Lord Dalmeny, son of the 2nd Earl of Rosebery
7 Dec 2009 added note regarding Margaret Ogilvy, wife of David Ogilvy, who
(but for the attainder) would have been 4th Earl of Airlie
7 Dec 2009 added note regarding Anne, wife of Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of
Kellie, and Joanna, wife of Methven Erskine, 10th Earl of Kellie
6 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Benjamin Julian Alfred Slade, 7th baronet
6 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Douglas Edward Scott, 7th baronet
6 Dec 2009 expanded note regarding Sir Francis Laurence John Barrow, 4th baronet
4 Dec 2009 added note regarding Sir Harry Yelverton Goring, 11th baronet
3 Dec 2009 recorded death of Edward George Hawke, 11th Baron Hawke
3 Dec 2009 uploaded new page containing details of all Members of the
European Parliament for United Kingdom constituencies
2 Dec 2009 recorded appointments of Baron Hope of Craighead and Baron
Patel as Knights of the Thistle
1 Dec 2009 expanded note regarding Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th baronet
1 Dec 2009 added note regarding the Twisden baronetcy [E 1666]
30 Nov 2009 recorded death of Nora Ratcliff David, Baroness David
27 Nov 2009 recorded appointment of Sir Charles Declan Morgan
to the Privy Council
26 Nov 2009 recorded death of Francis Arthur John French, 7th Baron
de Freyne
23 Nov 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Denis George William
Anson, 4th baronet
23 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Henry Burnaby, 5th and last baronet
21 Nov 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Charles Slingsby, 10th baronet
21 Nov 2009 added note regarding the Kellett baronetcy
20 Nov 2009 recorded death of John David McWilliam, MP for Blaydon 1979-2005
18 Nov 2009 added note regarding a claim made to the dukedom of Hamilton 
in 1897-1899
16 Nov 2009 added note regarding Charles Buxton, MP for Surrey East 1865-1871
16 Nov 2009 added note regarding Maria Stella Petronilla, 2nd wife of
the 1st Baron Newborough
15 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, 3rd baronet
15 Nov 2009 added note regarding Thomas Aitchison-Denman, 2nd Baron Denman
15 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Henry Frederick Echlin, 8th baronet
15 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Henry Delves Broughton, 9th baronet
14 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, 12th baronet
14 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Cecil Ernest Moon, 2nd baronet
13 Nov 2009 recorded appointment of Sir James Lawrence Munby
to the Privy Council
9 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir George Compton Archibald
Arthur, 3rd baronet
9 Nov 2009 added note regarding the death of James Theobald, MP for
Romford 1886-1894
9 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Ralph William Payne-Gallwey, 3rd baronet
9 Nov 2009 expanded note on Sir Arthur Colin Curtis, 3rd baronet, who
disappeared in Canada in 1898
9 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Nicholas Kemeys, 1st baronet
8 Nov 2009 recorded death of Sir Peter George Culcheth Holcroft, 3rd baronet
8 Nov 2009 recorded death of Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg [L]
1 Nov 2009 added note regarding Francis William Ogilvy-Grant, 10th
Earl of Seafield
1 Nov 2009 added note regarding Sir Charles Wentworth Burdett, 7th
baronet [E 1665]
31 Oct 2009 added note regarding the successful claim made to the title
of Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1908
31 Oct 2009 added note regarding the Viscountcy of Kenmure
29 Oct 2009 expanded note on Sir William Augustus Congreve, 3rd baronet
29 Oct 2009 added note regarding the baronetcy of Affleck [GB 1782]. Peerage
reference books state that this title became extinct in 1939, but
the 8th baronet had two sons whose history is discussed in the note
28 Oct 2009 recorded death of John Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Baron Sysonby. 
This peerage now becomes extinct.
28 Oct 2009   recorded death of Sir Ian Vere Gyles Isham, 13th baronet [E 1627]
28 Oct 2009 added note regarding the Slade baronetcy case of 1867
27 Oct 2009 added note regarding the Dysart peerage case of 1881
26 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir Adrian Ivor Dunbar, 12th baronet,
and Sir Jean Ivor Dunbar, 13th baronet
26 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir Edward Poore, 3rd baronet
26 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir William Bowyer-Smijth, 11th baronet
26 Oct 2009 added note regarding the death of William Ashley Webb 
Ponsonby, 3rd Baron de Mauley
24 Oct 2009 recorded death of Iain Duncan Macphail, Lord Macphail, a Senator
of the College of Justice in Scotland
21 Oct 2009 added note regarding the death, from an overdose of ether, of
Sir Frederick William Williams, 5th baronet
21 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir William Isaac Macartney, 4th baronet
21 Oct 2009 added note regarding the death of Philip Benedict Joseph
Petre, 15th Baron Petre
20 Oct 2009 recorded death of Diana Elles, Baroness Elles [L]
20 Oct 2009 recorded death of Sir John Roger Wilmot Onslow, 8th
baronet [GB 1797]
20 Oct 2009 added note regarding the baronetcy of Meredyth [I 1660]
20 Oct 2009 added lengthy note regarding Robert Crichton, 8th Lord Crichton of 
Sanquhar, who was hanged for murder in 1612
19 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir Gerard Arthur Maxwell Willshire, 3rd baronet
19 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir Willoughby Wolstan Dixie, 7th baronet
17 Oct 2009 added note regarding the death of Francis William Browne,
4th Baron Kilmaine
17 Oct 2009 added note regarding the disappearance of Francis Patrick
Clements, younger brother of the 5th Earl of Leitrim, in 1907
16 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir James Stephen Goold, 4th baronet, and
his brother, Vere Thomas St.Leger Goold
15 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir John David Rees, 1st baronet, who
died from injuries suffered after he fell from a train
15 Oct 2009 added note regarding Anthony Crommelin Crossley, MP for
Stretford 1935-1939, who was drowned following a plane crash
in 1939
15 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir Walter William Strickland, 9th baronet
14 Oct 2009 added note regarding the death of Jack Southwell Russell, 25th
Baron de Clifford, who was killed in a motor accident in 1909
13 Oct 2009 recorded death of Sir John Edward Lavallin Nugent, 7th 
baronet [I 1795]
11 Oct 2009 added note regarding Sir Thomas George Freake, 2nd baronet
11 Oct 2009 added note regarding Charles Robert Carington, 3rd Baron
Carrington and later Marquess of Lincolnshire
11 Oct 2009 added note regarding Reginald Jaffray Lucas, MP for Portsmouth
1906-1910, who committed suicide in 1914
9 Oct 2009 added note regarding the marriage of John Gaspard le Marchant
Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly
9 Oct 2009 recorded death of Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th
baronet [E 1660]
8 Oct 2009 recorded death of Sir Antony Lionel Thomas Bonham, 4th
baronet [UK 1852]
7 Oct 2009 added note regarding George Augustus Hamilton Chichester,
5th Marquess of Donegall, and the stories of his first two marriages
6 Oct 2009 recorded death of Arthur Herne Desmond Plummer, Baron
Plummer of St. Marylebone [L]
5 Oct 2009 added note regarding the romantic circumstances surrounding
the marriage of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester
4 Oct 2009 added note regarding the escape of Edmund Robert Parker,
Viscount Boringdon and later the 4th Earl of Morley, from a
burning ship in the south Pacific in 1903
4 Oct 2009 added note regarding the claim made to the baronetcy of
Menzies [NS 1665] between 1913 and 1916
3 Oct 2009 added note regarding Edward Marjoribanks, MP for Eastbourne
1929-1932, who committed suicide in April 1932
3 Oct 2009 added note regarding John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley
3 Oct 2009 recorded death of Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th baronet
1 Oct 2009 recorded death of Julian John Somerset Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon
30 Sep 2009 added note regarding Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre ("of the south")
who was executed for murder in 1541
30 Sep 2009 recorded death of Francis Edward Noel-Baker, MP for Brentford
and Chiswick 1945-1950 and Swindon 1955-1969
23 Sep 2009 added note regarding the death of William Romilly, 2nd Baron Romilly
23 Sep 2009 recorded death of Piers Rolf Garfield Merchant, MP for Newcastle
Central 1983-1987 and Beckenham 1992-1997
21 Sep 2009 added note regarding Bernhard Samuelson, MP for Banbury 1859
and 1865-1895, which illustrates the law of that time in relation to 
the naturalization of British subjects
21 Sep 2009 added note regarding Sir Theodore Francis Brinckman, 3rd baronet
19 Sep 2009 added a note relating a ghost story involving the 1st Earl of Halsbury
19 Sep 2009 added note regarding William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltes [i.e. Wiltshire]
of the 1397 creation, and the claim made for that peerage during the
decade of the 1860s
18 Sep 2009 recorded death of Sir Miles James Rivett-Carnac, 9th baronet [UK 1836]
16 Sep 2009 added note regarding the claims made to the Lovat peerage
in 1885 and 1897
14 Sep 2009 added note regarding the curious history of the casket which
once contained the heart of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
14 Sep 2009 added note regarding David Wynford Carnegie, youngest son of 
the 9th Earl of Southesk, who was an early Australian explorer
12 Sep 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Dame Nuala Patricia O'Loan,
who took the title of Baroness O'Loan
10 Sep 2009 added note regarding Anthony Francis Nugent, 9th Earl of Westmeath
9 Sep 2009 added note regarding the Duke of Berwick upon Tweed which
discusses whether he was ever actually attainted
6 Sep 2009 added notes regarding Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
Dundonald, and Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald
5 Sep 2009 added note regarding Rev. Robert Jonathan Bradford, MP for
Belfast South 1974-1981, who was assassinated by the IRA
5 Sep 2009 added note regarding the death of Walter William Schomberg Kerr,
styled Earl of Ancram, son of the 9th Marquess of Lothian, who was
accidentally shot dead while hunting in New South Wales in 1892
 
4 Sep 2009 recorded death of Nicola Jane Chapman, Baroness Chapman [L]
3 Sep 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Jonathan Henry Sacks, who
took the title of Baron Sacks
3 Sep 2009 recorded death of Aubrey Leland Oakes Buxton, Baron Buxton
of Alsa [L]
3 Sep 2009 added note regarding the successful claim made by Sir Charles
Dunbar Hope-Dunbar, 6th baronet, to the baronetcy of Dunbar
of Baldoon in 1916
2 Sep 2009 added note regarding Lord William Russell, MP for Surrey 1789-1807
and Tavistock 1807-1819 and 1826-1830, who was murdered in his
bed by his valet in 1840
1 Sep 2009 recorded death of Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham
31 Aug 2009 added note regarding one of England's most famous ghost
stories relating to the death of Thomas, 2nd Baron Lyttelton
30 Aug 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Michael John Martin, who
took the title of Baron Martin of Springburn
30 Aug 2009 recorded death (at the age of 103) of Sir Jack Wolfred Ashford
Harris, 2nd baronet [UK 1932]
28 Aug 2009 added note regarding the 2nd and 3rd Sandford baronets which
explains the apparent coincidence in the date of death of the
2nd baronet and the date of birth of the 3rd baronet
23 Aug 2009 added note regarding James Bryan George Hennessy, 2nd
Baron Windlesham, who died following a helicopter crash in 1962
23 Aug 2009 added note regarding Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th baronet, who at
birth was registered as a female, spending the first 40 years
of his life as such before re-registering his birth as a male in 1952
23 Aug 2009 added note regarding the successful claim to his baronetcy
of Sir Alexander Sharp Bethune, 9th baronet, in 1916
23 Aug 2009 added note regarding the successful claim to his baronetcy
made by Sir Robert Fraser Turing, 8th baronet, in 1912
20 Aug 2009 added note regarding the history of the Gardner baronies
which have been dormant since 1883
20 Aug 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir John William Hamilton
Anson, 2nd baronet, who was killed in a train crash in 1873
18 Aug 2009 recorded death of John Gregson, Baron Gregson [L]
14 Aug 2009 added note regarding 'Sir' Grenville Louis John Temple, self-styled
12th baronet
14 Aug 2009 added note regarding John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 
2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
12 Aug 2009 recorded death of Sir James Anson St.Clair-Ford, 7th baronet
8 Aug 2009 recorded death of Sir Edward Folmer Archdale, 3rd baronet
2 Aug 2009 recorded death of Sir John Barry Salusbury-Trelawny, 13th baronet
29 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Herbert Paul Latham, 2nd baronet,
MP for Scarborough and Whitby 1931-1941
27 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st baronet, the last 
person to be struck off the list of the Privy Council (as opposed
to resigning from the Privy Council)
26 Jul 2009 recorded result of by-election in Norwich North, following the
resignation of Ian Gibson
26 Jul 2009 added note regarding Frances Rose, Lady Gunning, widow of 
Sir Henry John Gunning, 4th baronet
26 Jul 2009 added note regarding James Somervell, MP for Ayr Burghs 1890-1892
26 Jul 2009 added notes regarding the Earldom of Rothes
23 Jul 2009 added note regarding the "Great Ellesmere Jewel Robbery" of
1856, during which the Countess of Ellesmere lost her large
collection of jewellery
23 Jul 2009 added note regarding Edward Auchmuty Glover, MP for
Beverley March-August 1857, who was imprisoned for
making a false declaration in relation to his property qualifications
22 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Robert Grierson, 1st baronet, and
his role in the death of the "Wigtown Martyrs" in 1685
21 Jul 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Alan Michael Sugar,
who took the title of Baron Sugar
20 Jul 2009 added note regarding Henry William Fitzgerald-de Ros, 22nd 
Lord de Ros, who in 1837 was accused of cheating at cards.
He sued his accuser, but lost the case, and as a result suffered
great damage to his reputation
20 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Charles Henry Coote, 10th baronet
16 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Richard Emanuel Moore, 10th baronet
16 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Charles Edward Frederick, 7th
baronet, and his fight to prove his right to the title
16 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Hew Crawford-Pollok, 5th baronet,
who succeeded to the baronetcy whilst he was a farrier in the
Fifth United States Cavalry in Texas
16 Jul 2009 expanded note under the Earldom of Perth to include further 
details regarding the 5th Earl's grandson, Lord Drummond
15 Jul 2009 added note regarding John Bowes, MP for Durham County
South 1832-1847
15 Jul 2009 recorded appointment of Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of
Canada, as a member of the Order of Merit
14 Jul 2009 added note regarding John Deasy, MP for Cork City 1884-1885
and Mayo West 1885-1893
14 Jul 2009 added note regarding Henry Richard Farquharson, MP for
Dorset West 1885-1895
14 Jul 2009 added note regarding John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones, MP for
Dorset North 1922-1924, who was killed in a plane crash in 1952
13 Jul 2009 recorded death of Christopher James Prout, Baron Kingsland [L]
12 Jul 2009 added notes regarding Viscount Milton, son of the 6th Earl
Fitzwilliam, his son the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam and his grandson, the
8th Earl Fitzwilliam.
10  Jul 2009 recorded death of George Alexander Eugene Douglas
Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
8 Jul 2009 added note regarding Edmund Dwyer Gray, MP for co.
Carlow 1880-1885 and St.Stephen's Green 1885-1888
8 Jul 2009 recorded death of Richard Reader Harris, MP for Heston
and Isleworth 1950-1970
8 Jul 2009 recorded death of Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker,
MP for Blackpool South 1964-1992
7 Jul 2009 recorded death of Henry Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of
Lindisfarne, MP for Poole 1964-1979
7 Jul 2009 recorded death of George Frederick Laurence Hyde Villiers,
7th Earl of Clarendon
5 Jul 2009 added note regarding the Wolverhampton East by-election in
1908, where, due to a clerical error, a woman was allowed to 
vote at a time when women did not have the right to do so
5 Jul 2009 added note regarding George Woodyatt Hastings, MP for
Worcestershire East 1880-1892, who was expelled from the 
House after being sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment for
fraudulent conversion
5 Jul 2009 added note regarding the suicide of Richard Luttrell Pilkington 
Bethell, 3rd Baron Westbury, in 1930 and the attempts to
ascribe the death to the "Curse of Tutankhamen"
2 Jul 2009 added note regarding Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st baronet,
who was assassinated by the I.R.A. in London in 1922
1 Jul 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock,
who took the title of Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
1 Jul 2009 added note regarding the death of Thomas Plumer Halsey,
MP for Hertfordshire 1846-1854
1 Jul 2009 added note regarding Lewis Henry Isaacs, MP for Walworth
1885-1892
1 Jul 2009 added note regarding the fatal air crash at Meopham in Kent
on 21 July 1930 which claimed the lives of the 3rd Marquess of
Dufferin and Ava, the Viscountess Ednam and Sir Edward Ward,
2nd baronet
30 Jun 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Brian Francis Kerr,
who took the title of Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore
30 Jun 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for David Freud, who took the
title of Baron Freud
30 Jun 2009 added note regarding Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron
Moyne, who was assassinated in Cairo in 1944
30 Jun 2009 added note regarding Philip James Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale
30 Jun 2009 recorded appointment to the Privy Council of Sir Nicholas John Patten
28 Jun 2009 added note (under Scottish Lords of Session) regarding the suicide of
George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, MP for Bridgwater for a short
period in 1866
28 Jun 2009 added note regarding Herbert Ingram, co-founder of 'The
Illustrated London News' and MP for Boston 1856-1860, who
died following a collision between a paddlesteamer and a
schooner on Lake Michigan in 1860
28 Jun 2009 added anecdote regarding Sir William Edge, MP for Bosworth
1927-1945
28 Jun 2009 added note regarding Sir Walter Dorling Smiles, MP for
Blackburn 1931-1945, co.Down 1945-1950 and co.Down North
1950-1953, who died in the sinking of the ferry MV Princess
Victoria in 1953
26 Jun 2009 added note regarding the assassination of Lord Frederick
Charles Cavendish, MP for Yorkshire West Riding North 1865-1882,
who was stabbed to death in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1882
26 Jun 2009 added note regarding the Bermondsey by-election of
October 1909 and the attempts made by the Suffragettes
to destroy ballot papers
26 Jun 2009 added note regarding Francis Charles Lawley, MP for Beverley
1852-1854
24 Jun 2009 added note regarding Walter Travers Scott-Elliot, MP for
Accrington 1945-1950, who was murdered by his butler in 1977
24 Jun 2009 added note regarding Edward Anthony Strauss, MP for 
Abingdon 1906-Jan 1910, Southwark West 1910-1918 and
Southwark North 1918-1923, 1927-1929 and 1931-1939, who
was sued for damages by a voter in 1913 for breach of 
contract for failing for fulfil his election promises
24 Jun 2009 added note regarding Alexander Bannerman, MP for Aberdeen
1832-1847 and his subsequent role, while Governor of
Newfoundland, in a constitutional crisis in that colony in 1861
24 Jun 2009 added note regarding Otho William Nicholson, MP for Abbey
1924-1932, one of only three people to survive a plane
crash at Heathrow in 1948
23 Jun 2009 recorded death of Sir Derrick Thomas Louis Bailey, 3rd baronet
23 Jun 2009 recorded death of Charles Kemp Davidson, Lord Davidson,
a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland 1983-1996
22 Jun 2009 recorded appointments of Baron Darzi of Denham, Baron Hunt
of Kings Heath, Baron Paul, Baron Shutt of Greetland, Baroness
Anelay of St.Johns, Baroness D'Souza and Baroness Vadera to
the Privy Council
21 Jun 2009 added notes regarding the actions which led to the award of the 
Victoria Cross to all of those who qualify for inclusion in these pages,
specifically:-
* Augustus Henry Archibald Anson, MP for Lichfield 1859-1868
   and Bewdley 1869-1874
* Sir Fenton John Aylmer, 13th baronet
* Gordon Campbell, MP for Burnley 1931-1935
* Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire
* Sir John Edmund Commerell, MP for Southampton 1885-1888
* Sir William James Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th baronet
   and MP for Ayr Burghs 1874-1880
* Percy Thompson Dean, MP for Blackburn 1918-1922
* Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore
* Sir Charles Crauford Fraser, MP for Lambeth North 1885-1892
* Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
* Robert Gee, MP for Woolwich West 1921-1922
* Edric Frederick Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford
* John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount
   Gort [I] and 1st Viscount Gort [UK]
* Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
* Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st baronet and MP
   for Sunderland 1874-1881 and Durham South East 1885-1892
   and 1895-1897
* Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage and MP for
   Berkshire 1865-1868
* Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell
* Sir Percival Scrope Marling, 3rd baronet
* Sir John Penistone Milbanke, 10th baronet
* George Randolph Pearkes, PC [Canada] 1957
* Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy, MP for Northumberland
   North 1865-1868
* Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
* Sir Charles Russell, 3rd baronet and MP for Berkshire 1865-1868
   and Westminster 1874-1882
* Robert Edward Dudley Ryder, MP for Merton and Morden 1950-1955
* William Philip Sidney, 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley and 1st
   Viscount De L'Isle and MP for Chelsea 1944-1945
* Sir John George Smyth, 1st baronet and MP for Norwood 1950-1966
* Sir Tasker Watkins, PC 1980
* Sir Henry Sacheverell Wilmot, 5th baronet and MP for Derbyshire
   South 1869-1885
* Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, OM 1912
* Wallace Duffield Wright, MP for Tavistock 1928-1931
19 Jun 2009 recorded death of Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf [L]
17 Jun 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Samuel Romilly, MP for
Queenborough 1806-1807 and Horsham 1807-1812, who took
his life in a fit of grief following the death of his wife
17 Jun 2009 added note regarding William James (Liam) Mellowes, MP
for Meath North and Galway East 1918-1922, who was
executed by the Irish government in December 1922 in
reprisal for the assassination of Sean Hales, Deputy Speaker
of the Irish Parliament
17 Jun 2009 added note regarding the assassination in 1927 of Kevin Christopher
O'Higgins, MP for Queen's County 1918-1922
17 Jun 2009 added note regarding Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
17 Jun 2009 added note (under Sir Roland Jennings, MP for the Hallam
division of Sheffield 1939-1959) regarding the law relating to 
government posts and offices of profit under the Crown
and the changes in such legislation over the last 300 years
15 Jun 2009 added note regarding Cecil John L'Estrange Malone, MP for
Leyton East 1918-1922 and Northampton 1928-1931. Although
not elected as such, he was the first Communist to sit in the 
House of Commons
15 Jun 2009 added note regarding William Copeland Borlase, MP for Cornwall
East 1880-1885 and St. Austell 1885-1887
13 Jun 2009 added note regarding Mary, Duchess of Sutherland (2nd wife
of the 3rd Duke of Sutherland)
13 Jun 2009 added note regarding George Hampden Whalley, MP for
Peterborough 1880-1883
8 Jun 2009 recorded appointments of Sadiq Aman Khan, Angela Evans
Smith, Paul Gerard Goggins and Michael O'Brien to the Privy Council
7 Jun 2009 added note concerning Hector John Graham-Toler, 2nd Earl 
of Norbury, who was murdered in January 1839
6 Jun 2009 recorded appointment of Andrew, Baron Adonis and Benjamin
Bradshaw to the Privy Council
5 Jun 2009 added note regarding the death of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl
Harcourt, who drowned in a well, apparently having fallen in
while attempting to rescue his dog
4 Jun 2009 added note regarding the 1st Baron Alington's "White Farm"
in which every animal, bird and flower was white
3 Jun 2009 added note regarding James Godfrey MacManaway, MP
for Belfast West Feb - Oct 1950, and a discussion of
the history of the eligibility of clergy to sit in the House
of Commons
3 Jun 2009 added note regarding Philip Kirkland Glazebrook, MP for
Manchester South 1912-1918. Although he was a candidate
for this seat at the Dec 1910 general election, his nomination
was lodged 6 minutes late and his opponent was returned
unopposed
3 Jun 2009 recorded death of Sir Michael William Hanham, 12th baronet
2 Jun 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Anthony Peter Clarke,
who took the title of Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
2 Jun 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st
baronet (and the son of James Boswell, biographer of Dr.
Johnson) in a duel in March 1822
31 May 2009 added note regarding Emmaline Henley, wife of Anthony, 5th
Baron Henley
31 May 2009 added note regarding Sir John Corbin Chubb, who was convicted
of attempted fraud in 1937
31 May 2009 added note containing an amusing anecdote concerning
Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington
29 May 2009 added note regarding the suicide of John Calcraft, MP for 
Wareham 1786-1790, 1800-1806 and 1818-1831, Rochester
1806-1818 and Dorset 1831
28 May 2009 added note regarding Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st baronet
and MP for Dulwich 1887-1903
27 May 2009 added note regarding Edwin John James, MP for Marylebone
1859-1861
24 May 2009 added note regarding Flora Rawdon-Hastings, Countess of
Loudoun in her own right, and her daughter, Lady Flora Hastings,
central figure of a major scandal in 1839
24 May 2009 expanded note under the Earldom of Landaff in the light of
more recent research on my part
21 May 2009 added note regarding Richard Power, MP for Monaghan
Borough 1767-1768 and Tuam 1768-1772 in the Irish House
of Commons
21 May 2009 added note regarding James Moore O'Donell, MP
for Ratoath 1798-1800 in the Irish House of Commons
21 May 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Barry Denny, 2nd baronet
21 May 2009 added note regarding the death of Murrough O'Brien,
1st Marquess of Thomond
21 May 2009 added note regarding John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O'Neill,
who was killed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
21 May 2009 added note regarding Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland
and the accidental death of the 1st baronet's father
21 May 2009 added note regarding the suicide of Henry Brooke Parnell, 1st
Baron Congleton
18 May 2009 uploaded new version of the Irish House of Commons page,
which has undergone substantial revision
16 May 2009 recorded death of Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst,
3rd Viscount Bledisloe
11 May 2009 thanks to Andrew Nisbet, was able to fill in an annoying gap in the
dates of birth and death of Frank James, MP for Walsall in 1892
11 May 2009 recorded death of Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet
11 May 2009 recorded death of Ernest Rogers Millington, MP for Chelmsford 
Apr 1945-1950, the last surviving member, to the best of my
knowledge, of the House of Commons which sat during WW2
10 May 2009 added note regarding Sir Frederick John Falkiner, 1st baronet
10 May 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Andrew Ferguson, 1st
baronet, who was killed when he fell through a broken bridge
10 May 2009 added note regarding the Gormanston Foxes, which are alleged
to appear each time the death of a Viscount Gormanston is imminent
9 May 2009 added note regarding Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry,
condemned to death (but later pardoned) in 1739 for the murder of
one of his servants 
8 May 2009 amended entry relating to the Anstruther baronetcy [GB 1798],
which has now been held to have become extinct in 1980. My
thanks to Richard Rutter for his advice on this matter.
7 May 2009 added note regarding Nathaniel Sneyd, MP for Cavan County
1801-1826, who was assassinated on a Dublin street in 1833
6 May 2009 added note regarding William Frederick Elliot Eden, MP
for Woodstock 1806-1810
6 May 2009 added note regarding James Paull, MP for Newtown (Isle
of Wight) 1805-1806
2 May 2009 recorded death of Colwyn Jestyn John Philipps, 3rd Viscount
St.Davids. He was also Lord Hungerford, Lord Moleyns and
Lord Strange de Knockin
25 Apr 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Lawrence Antony
Collins on his appointment as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
and who took the title of Baron Collins of Mapesbury
23 Apr 2009 recorded death of Sir Robin Danvers Penrose Gillett,
2nd baronet [1959]
22 Apr 2009 recorded death of James Larkin Jones CH
22 Apr 2009 added note regarding Sir John Dean Paul, 2nd baronet, who
was convicted of fraud and sentenced to transportation for 14 years
20 Apr 2009 added note regarding Spencer Cowper, MP for Bere Alston
1705-1710 and Truro 1715-1727, who stood trial for murder
in 1699 in a case which became a milestone in medical 
jurisprudence
20 Apr 2009 added note regarding Catherine Nairne, daughter of Sir Thomas
Nairne, 3rd baronet, who was tried and convicted of incest and
murder in 1765, before escaping from prison and fleeing to the 
Continent
19 Apr 2009 recorded death of Edward Alan John George, Baron George [L]
16 Apr 2009 recorded death of Sir Clement Raphael Freud, MP for Isle of
Ely 1973-1983 and Cambridgeshire North East 1983-1987
15 Apr 2009 recorded death of William Henry Leicester Stanhope, 11th 
Earl of Harrington
15 Apr 2009 added note regarding James Butler, 13th Baron Dunboyne, who
was indicted for perjury in 1850 for incorrectly describing himself
as a widower upon the occasion of his marriage
15 Apr 2009 added note regarding Sir William Massingberd, 2nd baronet, and
his alleged murder of his daughter's lover
15 Apr 2009 added note regarding Sir Tristram Dillington, 5th baronet, and
some anecdotes relating to alleged hauntings of the family home
9 Apr 2009 recorded death of Philip Brian Cecil Moore, Baron
Moore of Wolvercote [L]
9 Apr 2009 recorded death of Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley [L]
8 Apr 2009 added a note detailing a number of anecdotes relating to
the Howth peerage
8 Apr 2009 added note (under Northampton in the House of Commons pages)
regarding an alleged dream which predicted the assassination 
of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812
8 Apr 2009 added notes regarding the 10th and 11th Earls of Egmont
7 Apr 2009 recorded death of William Hugh Amherst Cecil, 4th Baron
Amherst of Hackney
2 Apr 2009 recorded death of Peter John Horatio Nelson, 9th Earl Nelson
2 Apr 2009 recorded death of Arthur Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree [L]
1 Apr 2009 added note regarding the history of the MacRobert baronetcy
1 Apr 2009 recorded death of Michael John Ward. MP for 
Peterborough 1974-1979
1 Apr 2009 recorded death of Charles Anthony Peter Duncombe, 6th
Baron Feversham
1 Apr 2009 recorded death of Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 7th baronet [1808]
30 Mar 2009 added note regarding Francis Charles Hughes-Hallett, 
MP for Rochester 1885-1889
30 Mar 2009 added note regarding Edward Samuel Wesley de Cobain, MP
for Belfast East from 1885 until his expulsion in 1892
30 Mar 2009 added note regarding Edmund Hope Verney, MP for 
Buckingham from 1889 until his expulsion in 1891
25 Mar 2009 recorded death of Timothy Denis Brinton, MP for Gravesend
1979-1983 and Gravesham 1983-1987
25 Mar 2009 recorded death of Douglas Cockburn Frith [PC Canada 1984]
22 Mar 2009 added note regarding Sir James Francis Rivers, 10th baronet
22 Mar 2009 added note regarding Sir Horatio Henry Wraxall, 4th baronet
21 Mar 2009 added note regarding Sir Philip Dawson, MP for Lewisham West 
1921-1938
21 Mar 2009 added notes regarding Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, 3rd baronet,
and his son, Sir Claude Robert Campbell, 4th baronet
21 Mar 2009 recorded death of Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock
21 Mar 2009 added note regarding Benjamin Walsh, MP for Wootton Bassett
1808-1812, who was expelled from the House of Commons in 1812
17 Mar 2009 recorded death of Sir Charles William Willink, 2nd baronet [UK 1957]
12 Mar 2009 recorded death of James John Clyde, Baron Clyde, former Senator
of the College of Justice in Scotland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
9 Mar 2009 added note regarding Hayes St. Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile,
who died of rabies after being bitten by his pet fox
9 Mar 2009 added note regarding Elizabeth St. Leger, daughter of the 1st
Viscount Doneraile, who, by some accounts, was the first female
Freemason
9 Mar 2009 added note regarding the history of the Leman baronetcy
after its presumed extinction in 1762
8 Mar 2009 added note regarding the death of Sir Charles Pym, 2nd baronet,
following an argument in a tavern in 1688
8 Mar 2009 added note regarding Sir Richard Mansel, 6th baronet, who was
tried for murder in 1693
6 Mar 2009 expanded note regarding the death of Sir Cholmeley Dering,
4th baronet
6 Mar 2009 recorded death of Frederick William Henry Francis Conyngham,
7th Marquess Conyngham
5 Mar 2009 recorded death of Gilbert Parent [PC Canada 2001]
3 Mar 2009 recorded appointment of Sir Patrick Elias to the Privy Council
2 Mar 2009 George John Patrick Dominic Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend
today became the longest ever holder of a peerage. He succeeded 
to his peerage on 17 Nov 1921 and as at 2 Mar 2009 has held the
peerage for 87 years 105 days, breaking the record previously
held by the 13th Lord Sinclair, who had held his peerage for 87 years
104 days when he died in 1863.
22 Feb 2009 recorded death of James White, MP for Glasgow Pollok 1970-1987
22 Feb 2009 recorded death of Sir Richard John Uniacke Barrow,
6th baronet [UK 1835]
22 Feb 2009 recorded death of Ronald Ernest Dearing, Baron Dearing [L]
20 Feb 2009 recorded appointment of Kim Scott Howells to the
Privy Council
8 Feb 2009 added note regarding the death of the 12th Earl of Lauderdale
and the subsequent claims made to the title
8 Feb 2009 recorded death of Patrick Maitland Wilson, 2nd Baron Wilson. The
peerage has now become extinct
7 Feb 2009 added note regarding the death of Evan Frank Mottram Durbin,
MP for Edmonton 1945-1948, who drowned while rescuing
his daughter and another child from heavy seas in 1948
4 Feb 2009 added note regarding the death of Thomas Ffrench, 2nd Baron
Ffrench, in 1814
3 Feb 2009 recorded creation of life peerage for Evan Mervyn Davies, who 
took the title of Baron Davies of Abersoch
30 Jan 2009 added note regarding the death of Thomas North Graves, 
2nd Baron Graves, in 1830
29 Jan 2009 recorded death of William Ronald Robertson, 2nd Baron
Robertson of Oakridge
28 Jan 2009 recorded death of Anthony Audley Rupert Blyth, 4th Baron Blyth
28 Jan 2009 recorded appointment of Sir Jeremy Mirth Sullivan to the Privy Council
27 Jan 2009 recorded death of Sir John Hugh Dalrymple-Hay, 7th baronet [GB 1798]
25 Jan 2009 recorded death of David Leigh Kerr, MP for Wandsworth Central
1964-1970
24 Jan 2009 added note regarding Sir Peter Payne, titular 3rd baronet [GB 1737]
23 Jan 2009 recorded death of Sir Christopher Eric Forbes Adam,
3rd baronet [UK 1917]
22 Jan 2009 recorded deaths of Colin Barry Phipps, MP for Dudley West
1974-1979 and Bertie Hazell, MP for Norfolk North 1964-1970 (who
was one of the few MPs to reach his centenary)
22 Jan 2009 added notes regarding Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of
Sligo and George Ulick Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo
20 Jan 2009 recorded death of Sir Edward Sydney Hamilton, 7th baronet
[GB 1776] and 5th baronet [UK 1819]. Both baronetcies are
now extinct
19 Jan 2009 added note regarding Viscount Forth, son of the 5th Earl of Perth
16 Jan 2009 recorded death of John Cyril Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford
15 Jan 2009 recorded appointment of Sir Patrick Coghlin to the Privy Council
15 Jan 2009 added note regarding Hugh Watt, MP for Camlachie 1885-1892,
who was imprisoned for attempting to procure the murder of his ex-wife
15 Jan 2009 recorded death of Peter Stewart Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell [L]
15 Jan 2009 recorded death of Sir David St.Vincent Llewellyn, 4th baronet
14 Jan 2009 added note regarding James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy
14 Jan 2009 added note regarding Sir Francis Laurence John Barrow, 4th baronet
11 Jan 2009 added note regarding Richard Henry Boyle, 6th Earl of Shannon
11 Jan 2009 added note regarding the "Great Shrewsbury Case" of 1857-1858
10 Jan 2009 added note regarding the unsuccessful claim made to the 
Earldom of Seafield in 1925/26
9 Jan 2009 added note regarding the Breadalbane Peerage Case of 1866
8 Jan 2009 added note detailing the history of the Borthwick peerage
3 Jan 2009 recorded death of David Henry Arthur Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock
1 Jan 2009 recorded death of Sir John Wyndham Edward Hanmer, 8th 
baronet [GB 1774]
29 Dec 2008 added note regarding Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart, MP for co.
Waterford 1873-1874 and 1880-1885, and claimant for the barony
of Stuart de Decies
28 Dec 2008 added note regarding the claim to the Dukedom of Sussex in 1844
27 Dec 2008 added note regarding Eleanor, Countess of Stair, particularly
describing an incident in her life which was later used by Sir
Walter Scott as the basis of one of his stories
27 Dec 2008 added note regarding Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, MP for
Tipperary 1869-1870, and in particular details of the failed
attempt on his life in New York in February 1885
27 Dec 2008 added note regarding Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford,