Leigh's Update Board
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 Willam 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 [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 succeesful 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, Dunlin, 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,
		a central figure in one of the greatest scandals of the Victorian era
26 Dec 2008		recorded death of Harold Pinter CH
18 Dec 2008		added note regarding Sir Edward William Crosbie, 5th baronet,
		victim of a judicial murder during the Irish Rebellion of 1798
18 Dec 2008		recorded death of Sir John William Basil Kelly PC [NI] 1969
17 Dec 2008		added note regarding George Edward Waldegrave, 7th
		Earl Waldegrave, who in 1841 was imprisoned for six months
		for assaulting a policeman
15 Dec 2008		recorded death of Francis David Charteris, 12th Earl of
		Wemyss and 8th Earl of March
15 Dec 2008		added note regarding the claim made to the Waterford
		peerage between 1913 and 1918
15 Dec 2008		added note regarding the tradition of the 'Curse of the Waterfords,'
		together with details of a number of violent deaths suffered by
		members of this family
14 Dec 2008		added note regarding the various claims made to the
		Viscountcy of Tracy during the 19th century
11 Dec 2008		added note regarding Thomas Oliver Plunkett, 11th Baron
		Louth, who was imprisoned for abusing his powers as a
		magistrate by unjustly imprisoning one of his tenants
11 Dec 2008		added note regarding the Fitzwilliam Legitimacy Case
		of 1951, which decided the next heir to the Fitzwilliam
		earldom
11 Dec 2008		added note regarding Matthew Gregory Lewis, MP for
		Hindon 1796-1802, and author of "The Monk," possibly
		the most lurid of all Gothic novels
10 Dec 2008		recorded appointment of Sir Richard John Pearson Aikens
		to the Privy Council
9 Dec 2008		added note regarding Henry Sandford, 2nd Baron Mount
		Sandford, who was kicked to death in a brawl in Windsor
		during the Ascot race week in 1828
9 Dec 2008		added note regarding John Francis Miller Erskine, 25th
		Earl of Mar, convicted in 1831 of assault by shooting in the
		direction of a Mr. John Oldham in a dispute over hunting rights
9 Dec 2008		added note regarding Henry Francis Roper-Curzon, 14th
		Baron Teynham
9 Dec 2008		recorded death of Sir Bernard Michael Francis Samuelson,
		5th baronet [UK 1884]
6 Dec 2008		added note regarding David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre,
		MP for Sudbury 1841-1842, who was, to the best of
		my knowledge, the first member of a racial minority
		to be elected to the House of Commons
6 Dec 2008		added note regarding John Dyke Acland, MP for
		Callington 1774-1778
5 Dec 2008		recorded death of Patrick Francis Maitland, 17th Earl of
		Lauderdale
3 Dec 2008		recorded death of Sir Edward Offley Bertram Wakeman,
		6th baronet [1828]. The baronetcy has now become extinct.
2 Dec 2008		added note regarding the Kennington election in
		January 1919, and in particular the legal position when
		a candidate dies after nomination but prior to polling day
2 Dec 2008		added note regarding Alfred James Dobbs, the shortest-
		serving MP during the twentieth century, who was returned
		for Smethwick on 26 Jul 1945 and who was killed in a traffic
		accident on the following day
2 Dec 2008		added notes regarding Thomas Higgins (Galway North 1906),
		Archibald Noel Skelton (Scottish Universities 1935), Sir Edward
		Taswell Campbell (Bromley 1945) and Leslie Pym (Monmouth
		1945), each of whom was returned to the House of Commons
		posthumously
2 Dec 2008		recorded death of Peter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees,
		MP for Dover 1970-1974 and 1983-1987 and Dover and Deal
		1974-1983
2 Dec 2008		added note regarding Walter Powell, MP for Malmesbury
		1868-1881, who was carried off in a balloon and never
		seen again
2 Dec 2008		added note regarding Guy Cuthbert Dawnay, MP for the North
		Riding of Yorkshire 1882-1885, who was killed by a buffalo
		in East Africa in 1889
27 Nov 2008		recorded death of Raymond Joseph Perrault  PC [Canada] 1974
25 Nov 2008		recorded death of Andrew John Bernard Rowe, MP for Kent Mid
		1983-1997 and Faversham and Mid Kent 1997-2001
18 Nov 2008		recorded death of Philip Isaac Caplan. Lord Caplan, a Senator
		of the College of Justice in Scotland 1989-2000
15 Nov 2008		recorded death of Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor
11 Nov 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Susan Catherine Campbell,
		who took the title of Baroness Campbell of Loughborough
8 Nov 2008		recorded result of by-election in Glenrothes, caused by the
		death of John MacDougall
6 Nov 2008		added note regarding Robert Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, who
		in 1976 was fined for firing a cannon on his property which damaged
		a yacht which was sailing past at the time
5 Nov 2008		added note regarding Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, MP for
		Peebles and Southern 1931-1945, the only MP to be interned
		during WW2
3 Nov 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for David Philip Pannick, who took
		the title of Baron Pannick
3 Nov 2008		recorded death of Sir Arthur John Page, MP for Harrow
		West 1960-1987
2 Nov 2008		added note regarding Terence McSwiney, MP for Cork County
		Mid 1918-1920, who died as a result of a hunger strike
2 Nov 2008		added note regarding Elizabeth 'Bessie' Braddock, MP for
		Liverpool Exchange 1945-1970
2 Nov 2008		added note regarding the unsuccessful claims to the baronies
		of Montacute and Monthermer in 1928-1929
31 Oct 2008		recorded death of John Graham Cuckney, Baron Cuckney
30 Oct 2008		recorded death of Rognvald Richard Farrer Herschell, 3rd
		Baron Herschell. This peerage has now become extinct.
29 Oct 2008		recorded appointments of Sir John Bernard Goldring and Sir Rupert
		Matthew Jackson to the Privy Council
27 Oct 2008		added note regarding Joseph Henry Leeson, 5th Earl of Milltown
24 Oct 2008		recorded death of David John Evans, MP for Welwyn Hatfield 1987-1997
23 Oct 2008		added note regarding William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward,
		and his aversion to the wearing of any form of clothing
23 Oct 2008		expanded note regarding William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
23 Oct 2008		added note regarding Nicola Sophia, Lady Beresford, wife of Sir
		Tristram Beresford, 3rd baronet, who is one of the central characters
		in a famous Irish ghost story
21 Oct 2008		recorded appointment of Sir Terence Etherton to the Privy Council
21 Oct 2008		added note regarding the wooing by Charles Radclyffe, titular 5th
		Earl of Derwentwater, of Charlotte, Countess of Newburgh
21 Oct 2008		added note regarding Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey
21 Oct 2008		recorded death of Sir Nicholas John Redmayne, 2nd baronet [1964]
19 Oct 2008		added note regarding Hervey Raymond Morres, 2nd
		Viscount Mountmorres
19 Oct 2008		added note regarding Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, whose
		second wife, a chambermaid at an inn, he purchased from her husband.
18 Oct 2008		recorded death of Sir Richard Guy Fison, 4th baronet [1905]
18 Oct 2008		recorded death of Martin Raymond Peake, 2nd Viscount
		Ingleby. This peerage has now become extinct.
16 Oct 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Paul Myners, who took
		the title of Baron Myners
16 Oct 2008		recorded death of Daniel Edmund Awdry, MP for Chippenham 1962-1979
15 Oct 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Stephen Carter, who took
		the title of Baron Carter of Barnes
14 Oct 2008		added note regarding the claims made to the Earldom of Crawford
		between 1809 and 1839
14 Oct 2008		added note regarding the lengthy claims made over a period of
		170 years for the Earldom of Banbury
14 Oct 2008		added notes regarding the 2nd Earl of Selborne and the 2nd
		Baron Coleridge, both of whom were the central figures in cases
		relating to the timing of members of the House of Commons
		becoming disqualified to remain members after succeeding to
		a peerage
13 Oct 2008		recorded death of Sir James Wallace Stuart-Menteth,
		6th baronet [1838]
13 Oct 2008		added note regarding the death of Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke,
		MP for Reigate 1790-1806 and 1818-1831, St. Germans 1806-1810,
		West Looe 1812 and Sandwich 1812-1818
13 Oct 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Peter Benjamin
		Mandelson, who took the title of Baron Mandelson
9 Oct 2008		recorded death of Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld
7 Oct 2008		recorded appointment of Matthew Gerard Clarke, Lord Clarke,
		to the Privy Council
6 Oct 2008		recorded appointment of eight new Privy Counsellors following
		recent UK Cabinet re-shuffle
4 Oct 2008		recorded death of George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson
		of Monifieth
3 Oct 2008		added note regarding Arun Kumar Sinha, 2nd Baron Sinha, and his
		petition for a writ of summons to the House of Lords after the
		death of his father
3 Oct 2008		added note on the descent of the barony of Macdonald and the
		baronetcy of Bosville-Macdonald following the death of the 3rd Baron
		Macdonald in 1832
3 Oct 2008		recorded appointment to the Privy Council of James Murphy
		and Paul Rudd Drayson, Baron Drayson
3 Oct 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Igor Judge, Lord Chief
		Justice of England and Wales, who took the title of Baron Judge
1 Oct 2008		added notes regarding the 4th and 5th Barons de Freyne
1 Oct 2008		added note regarding John Nichols Thom, alias Sir William
		Courtenay, unsuccessful candidate for Canterbury at the
		1832 general election
1 Oct 2008		added note regarding the Douglas Inheritance Case of 1767-1769
30 Sep 2008		recorded death of Trevor Victor Norman Fortescue, MP for
		Garston 1966-1974
28 Sep 2008		added note regarding the claim made by James Percy to the
		Earldom of Northumberland between 1672 and 1689
28 Sep 2008		recorded death of Sir Alfred Vincent Pease, 4th baronet [1882]
26 Sep 2008		added note regarding Amelia Radcliffe, self-proclaimed Countess
		of Derwentwater, and her attempts to reclaim her alleged family
		estates between 1865 and 1871
22 Sep 2008		added note regarding Thomas Thynne, MP for Wiltshire
		1670-1682, murdered in his carriage in Pall Mall in 1682
21 Sep 2008		added note regarding the two sons of the 6th Earl of Rutland, who
		were allegedly killed by witchcraft, and for which two sisters were
		subsequently burnt at the stake
20 Sep 2008		added note regarding the death of the 10th Earl of Eglinton
20 Sep 2008		added note regarding the murder of Martha Reay, mistress of the
		4th Earl of Sandwich
20 Sep 2008		added notes regarding the death of Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore,
		and the subsequent history of his widow, who caused a scandal when
		she married her groom
19 Sep 2008		added note regarding Washington Sewallis Shirley, 9th Earl Ferrers,
		the subject of a famous breach of promise case in 1846
19 Sep 2008		added note regarding Lawrence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, who was
		hanged for murder in 1760
17 Sep 2008		added note regarding James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry,
		homicidal maniac and cannibal
16 Sep 2008		added note regarding the eccentricities of the 5th Marquess Townshend
16 Sep 2008		added note concerning the death of Viscount Cantelupe, eldest son
		and heir of the 7th Earl de la Warr.
16 Sep 2008		added note regarding the death of the 6th Earl de la Warr
16 Sep 2008		added note regarding the unusual remainder to the Barony of Buckhurst
		created in 1864, and its subsequent overturning by the House of Lords
		Committee for Privileges in 1876
13 Sep 2008		added note regarding the St. Leonards Will Case of 1875-1876
12 Sep 2008		recorded death of Paul Glyn Williams, MP for Sunderland South 1953-1964
11 Sep 2008		added note regarding the incorrect publication in the newspapers
		of the death in a riding accident of Viscount Milton, heir to the Earldom
		of Fitzwilliam
10 Sep 2008		expanded note on the death of the 6th Earl of Aberdeen
10 Sep 2008		recorded appointment to the Privy Council of Colin John MacLean
		Sutherland, Lord Carloway, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland
10 Sep 2008		recorded death of James Gordon Macpherson, 2nd Baron Macpherson
		of Drumochter
10 Sep 2008		added note regarding Henry Handcock, MP for Athlone 1856-1857,
		who was killed by a tiger at the age of 24
9 Sep 2008		added note regarding the Huntingdon peerage claim of 1818-1819
9 Sep 2008		added note regarding Jasper Douglas Pyne, MP for Waterford West
		1885-1888
7 Sep 2008		added note on the Mountgarret peerage case of 1854
7 Sep 2008		recorded death of Sir Denis Eric Rooke OM
6 Sep 2008		added note regarding the Leigh Peerage claim of 1829, and subsequent
		events
2 Sep 2008		added note regarding the Berkeley Peerage case of 1811, together
		with notes on the 5th Earl of Berkeley and Thomas Moreton Fitzhardinge
		Berkeley, styled Viscount Dursley, MP for Gloucestershire 1810
1 Sep 2008		added note regarding the death of Robert Crichton, 8th Lord
		Crichton of Sanquhar, executed for murder in 1612
28 Aug 2008		added note regarding the accidental death of the 10th Lord
		Beaumont in 1895
28 Aug 2008		added note regarding John Bell, MP for Thirsk 1841-1851, who was
		found to be insane by a commission of inquiry in July 1849
25 Aug 2008		added note regarding Lady Sophia Scott, wife of Sir Samuel Scott,
		6th baronet
25 Aug 2008		added note regarding Sir Charles Lockhart-Ross, 9th baronet, and
		his father and grandfather.
23 Aug 2008		recorded death of Philip Norman Hocking, MP for Coventry South 1959-1964
21 Aug 2008		recorded death of Leopold Abse, MP for Pontypridd 1958-1983
		and Torfaen 1983-1987
19 Aug 2008		recorded death of Sir Kenneth Garnar Newton, 3rd baronet [1924]
15 Aug 2008		recorded death of Alexander John Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart
14 Aug 2008		recorded death of Frederick Alfred Milo Cripps, 4th Baron Parmoor
14 Aug 2008		recorded death of John MacDougall, MP for Glenrothes since 2005
13 Aug 2008		recorded death of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor
7 Aug 2008		recorded death of Sir Michael Henry Basil Peto, 4th baronet [1927]
5 Aug 2008		recorded death of Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde
31 Jul 2008		added note regarding Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
31 Jul 2008		added note regarding the Somerset peerage claim of 1923-1925
31 Jul 2008		added note regarding Edward Adolphus Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset,
		and his sons, Lord Edward Adolphus Ferdinand Seymour, styled Earl
		St. Maur, and Lord Edward Percy Seymour
30 Jul 2008		recorded death of Eric Graham Varley, Baron Varley
29 Jul 2008		recorded death of David Russell Russell-Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston
27 Jul 2008		added lengthy note regarding the imposture of "Sir Richard Hugh Smyth"
		to the baronetcy of Smyth of Long Ashton, Somerset [1763]
26 Jul 2008		added note regarding Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
25 Jul 2008		recorded result of by-election held in Glasgow East, following the
		retirement for health reasons of David Marshall
23 Jul 2008		recorded death of Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes
23 Jul 2008		recorded death of John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth
12 Jul 2008		added note regarding Eveleen Smith-Gray, Lady Gray (19th holder
		of the title)
12 Jul 2008		recorded result of by-election held in Haltemprice and Howden,
		where David Davis was re-elected
10 Jul 2008		added note regarding Sir Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury
7 Jul 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Michael Walton Bates,
		who took the title Baron Bates
6 Jul 2008		added note regarding an amusing story relating to the 1st Viscount
		Mersey's pet bulldog.
6 Jul 2008		expanded note regarding Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
5 Jul 2008		recorded death of Robert Nivison, 3rd Baron Glendyne
3 Jul 2008		added note regarding Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th baronet, and his role in
		the 'Virginius Incident' of November 1873
3 Jul 2008		added notes regarding the 8th and 10th Earls of Shaftesbury
2 Jul 2008		recorded death of William de L'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir
1 Jul 2008		recorded death of Terence Fields, MP for Broadgreen Liverpool 1983-1992
30 Jun 2008		added note regarding Sir William Augustus Congreve, 3rd baronet [1812]
		who disappeared around 1860 and was never heard of again
30 Jun 2008		added note regarding Sir Eardley Gideon Culling Eardley, 4th baronet, who
		was imprisoned for 18 months in 1868 for bigamy
29 Jun 2008		recorded election of John Michael Howell as MP for Henley, following
		the resignation of Boris Johnson, elected Mayor of London
26 Jun 2008		added note regarding Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch
20 Jun 2008		added note regarding William Beckett-Denison, MP for East Retford
		1876-1880 and Bassetlaw 1885-1890
20 Jun 2008		recorded death of Alan Charles Macpherson Johnston, Lord Johnston,
		a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland
19 Jun 2008		added note regarding Sarah, Lady Gooch, wife of Sir Francis Robert
		Sherlock Gooch, 8th baronet
19 Jun 2008		added note regarding Lady Florence Dixie, wife of Sir Alexander Beaumont
		Churchill Dixie, 11th baronet
18 Jun 2008		added note regarding Henry James FitzRoy, styled Earl of Euston, son of
		the 7th Duke of Grafton.
16 Jun 2008		recorded appointment of Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of
		Riverside, as a Companion of Honour in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.
16 Jun 2008		added note regarding Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton, MP for Newark 1865-1868
16 Jun 2008		added note regarding Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of
		Queensberry, together with other members of the Douglas family
15 Jun 2008		added notes regarding various members of the Townshend family.
15 Jun 2008		added note regarding John Dunn Gardner, MP for Bodmin 1841-1847
12 Jun 2008		added note regarding Byron Noel King-Noel, 12th Baron Wentworth
12 Jun 2008		added note regarding Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore
11 Jun 2008		added note regarding Lodge Raymond de Montmorency, 2nd Viscount
		Frankfort de Montmorency
11 Jun 2008		added note regarding Sir Charles Tennant, 1st baronet
6 Jun 2008		recorded death of George Halifax Lumley-Savile, 3rd Baron Savile
6 Jun 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Dame Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller,
		who took the title of Baroness Manningham-Buller
6 Jun 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Sir Robert Haldane Smith, who took
		the title of Baron Smith of Kelvin
6 Jun 2008		recorded creation of life peerage for Sir John Frederick Mogg, who took
		the title of Baron Mogg
4 Jun 2008		recorded death of John Robert Cecil Manners, 5th Baron Manners
3 Jun 2008		recorded death of Sir Thomas Richard Valentine Blake, 13th baronet  [I 1622]
2 Jun 2008		recorded death of Sir John Raymond Burrell, 9th baronet  [GB 1774]
31 May 2008		added note regarding the deaths of John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of
		Dalhousie and his wife in 1887
31 May 2008		added note regarding the death of Henry William John Byng, 4th Earl
		of Strafford, who was killed by a train in 1899
31 May 2008		added note regarding William Byron, 5th Baron Byron
31 May 2008		added note regarding Angela, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, one of the
		earliest victims of the phenomenon of celebrity stalking
30 May 2008		added notes regarding Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham and Somerset
		Henry Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham
30 May 2008		uploaded revised listing of Irish Privy Counsellors; this listing should now
		be complete for the period since 1711 (but only partially complete for
		the period 1660-1710)
26 May 2008		expanded existing note regarding Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny,
		4th baronet
26 May 2008		added note regarding David Stuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan
26 May 2008		added note regarding John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury
26 May 2008		added note regarding George Samuel Browne, 8th Viscount Montagu
24 May 2008		recorded result of by-election held for constituency of Crewe and
		Nantwich following the death of Gwyneth Dunwoody
22 May 2008		recorded death of Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison
22 May 2008		added note regarding the disappearance of Sir Arthur Colin Curtis,
		3rd baronet, in 1898
22 May 2008		added note regarding William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley
21 May 2008		added note regarding Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford,
		Baron Beresford
19 May 2008		added note regarding Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith, daughter of
		the 1st Earl of Birkenhead
19 May 2008		recorded death of William John Blease, Baron Blease
15 May 2008		added note regarding Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant, who was
		convicted in 1929 of making false statements in a prospectus
15 May 2008		recorded death of Peter Giles Thurnham, MP for Bolton NE 1983-1997
14 May 2008		recorded appointment to the Privy Council of Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton
13 May 2008		recorded death of Sir Charles Robert Rowley, 7th baronet [UK 1836]
		and 8th baronet [GB 1786]
12 May 2008		added note regarding Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun of Okehampton
8 May 2008		recorded death of Janet Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, MP
		for Argyll and Bute 1987-2001
7 May 2008		added note regarding the disappearance of Albert Victor Grayson, MP
		for Colne Valley 1907-1910, who disappeared in September 1920
6 May 2008		recorded death of Richard Gordon Hulme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham
5 May 2008		added note regarding Henry St. John, 5th Viscount Bolingbroke and
		6th Viscount St. John
5 May 2008		added note regarding the unsuccessful claim to the Poulett Earldom in 1903
5 May 2008		added note regarding the unsuccessful claim to the Barony of Morley,
		created by Writ of Summons in 1299, by James Thorne Roe in the late
		19th and early 20th centuries
4 May 2008		added note regarding Edward Henry Stuart Bligh, 7th Earl of Darnley
4 May 2008		added note regarding George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness  [creation of 1455]
3 May 2008		added notes regarding Lawrence William Palk and Lawrence Edward
		Broomfield Palk, 3rd and 4th Barons Haldon respectively
3 May 2008		added note regarding the murder of William Browne de Montmorency,
		5th Viscount Mountmorres in 1880
1 May 2008		recorded death of Sir John Anthony Kershaw, MP for Stroud 1955-1987
30 Apr 2008		added note regarding Charles William Moore, 5th Earl of Mount Cashell
30 Apr 2008		added note regarding Sir John Chandos Reade, 7th baronet  [E 1661]
30 Apr 2008		added note regarding Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
30 Apr 2008		recorded death of Sir John Vansittart Bowater, 4th baronet  [UK 1914]
28 Apr 2008		added note regarding Sir William Gordon MacGregor, 4th baronet  [UK 1828]
28 Apr 2008		added note regarding Courtenay Robert Percy Vernon, 4th Baron Lyveden
28 Apr 2008		added note regarding Arthur Augustus Perceval, 8th Earl of Egmont
28 Apr 2008		added note regarding the Stamford peerage claim of 1892
28 Apr 2008		added note regarding Sir William James Bull, MP for Hammersmith
		1900-1918 and Hammersmith South 1918-1929
23 Apr 2008		added note regarding Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln, MP for
		Darlington January - December 1910
23 Apr 2008		recorded appointments as Knights of the Garter of HRH Prince William of
		Wales, Baron Luce and Sir Thomas Dunne
23 Apr 2008		recorded death of Richard Thain Alexander, MP for Newark 1979-1997
21 Apr 2008		amended entry relating to Sir Michael Grierson, 12th baronet. Since the
		original patent was to heirs male whatsoever, it is unlikely that this
		baronetcy has become extinct and is therefore merely dormant
21 Apr 2008		added note regarding the morganatic marriage of HRH George William
		Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge [creation of 1801]
21 Apr 2008		added note regarding William de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley and Thomas
		Talbot, Viscount Lisle, and the Battle of Nibley Green, the last private
		battle to be fought on English soil
21 Apr 2008		added note regarding Thomas, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour
20 Apr 2008		added note regarding Sir Simon Peter Clarke, 5th baronet [NS 1617], who was
		convicted of highway robbery and transported to Jamaica
20 Apr 2008		added note regarding Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones, MP for Pontypridd 1922-1931
19 Apr 2008		recorded death of Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody, MP for Exeter 1966-1970,
		Crewe 1974-1983 and Crewe and Nantwich since 1983
18 Apr 2008		added note regarding Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke [creation of 1551],
		who was tried for murder by his peers in 1678
18 Apr 2008		added note regarding John Mitchel, twice elected for Tipperary in February
		and March 1875
18 Apr 2008		recorded death of Donald James Dobbie Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen, a
		Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland
16 Apr 2008		added notes regarding Philip Christopher Clarke and Thomas James Mitchell,
		elected for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and Mid Ulster respectively at the
		1955 General Election
16 Apr 2008		added note regarding Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton,
		and, in particular, details of the Eglinton Tournament held in August 1839
15 Apr 2008		recorded death of Sir Charles Dixon Kimber, 3rd baronet  [UK 1904]
15 Apr 2008		recorded death of Dr. Jesse Dickson Mabon, MP for Greenock 1955-1974
		and Greenock and Port Glasgow 1974-1983, PC 1977
14 Apr 2008		added note regarding Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk
14 Apr 2008		added note regarding Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Hastings, 4th and
		last Marquess of Hastings
14 Apr 2008		added notes regarding Beauchamp Bagenal and Thomas Whalley to the
		Irish House of Commons page
12 Apr 2008		recorded death of Sir Timothy Robert Sherlock Gooch, 13th baronet  [GB 1746]
11 Apr 2008		recorded death of Sir Alexander Maule Jardine, 12th baronet [NS 1672]
11 Apr 2008		recorded death of Baron Beaumont of Whitley
11 Apr 2008		recorded death of William Long  (PC [NI] 1966)
10 Apr 2008		added notes regarding James Erskine, Lord Grange and James Burnett, Lord
		Monboddo, to the Scottish Lords of Session page
10 Apr 2008		added note regarding the succession to the peerage of the 2nd Baron Stamp
10 Apr 2008		recorded the death of Sir John Craven Carden, 7th baronet [GB 1787]
10 Apr 2008		corrected the O'Brien baronets to read "O'Brien of Borris-in-Ossory, Queen's
		County, in lieu of the incorrect "Barris'
9 Apr 2008		uploaded new page showing the Senators of the College of Justice of Scotland
		since its inception in 1532
6 Apr 2008		added note relating to the assassination of the 6th Earl of Mayo
3 Apr 2008		recorded death of Sir Michael John Bewes Grierson, 12th (and last) baronet