THE PEERAGE.

EVERY LINE OF THIS PEERAGE IS KEPT CONSTANTLY STANDING IN TYPE, so that additions and alterations may be made with the greatest facility. It is therefore earnestly requested that the earliest information relative to any change, by death, marriage, birth, promotion, or otherwise, may be forwarded to THE EDITORS OF LODGE'S PEerage, Messrs. Saunders and Otley's, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, London.

PEERAGE

OF THE

BRITISH

EMPIRE

AS AT PRESENT EXISTING

ARRANGED AND PRINTED FROM THE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
OF THE NOBILITY

UNDER THE GRACIOUS PATRONAGE

OF

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

AND OF

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT

AND DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT

BY EDMUND LODGE ESQ.

NORROY KING OF ARMS &c.

With the Arms of the Peers

TO WHICH IS ADDED

THE BARONETAGE

TWENTY-FOURTH EDITION

LONDON

SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET

1855

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LONDON:

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