: a book containing a list of peers with their genealogy, history, and titles
Example Sentences
He was given the peerage after years of devoted service to the community.
Recent Examples on the WebThough most historians agree that Anne was likely innocent of the crimes she was accused of, she was nonetheless unanimously convicted by a court of the peerage. Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2022 Rachel Rynda became the 69th Princess Kay of the Milky Way at this year’s fair, a peerage with duties that include whipping up support for the state’s 2,100 dairy farmers for a year. Joe Barrett, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022 This led to the famous polemic in The Spectator in January in 1964 by Iain Macleod, a senior Tory who had declined to serve under Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as Home had become known after renouncing his peerage. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022 Firtash partnered with an aristocrat named Raymond Asquith, who now holds a peerage in Parliament. Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 15 July 2022 The founder of the house of Spencer was born the third Baron Spencer and later given the first Earl of Sunderland peerage, spinning off a new title for the eldest Spencer men that would last until the 1750s. Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 31 May 2022 Today, however, the heralds are experts on such things as history and genealogy and provide advice on anything to do with the peerage and royal ceremonies. Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022 The Conservative Party is also under scrutiny because of Johnson’s decision last year to award a peerage to his friend Evgeny Lebedev, a media mogul who owns the London Evening Standard and Independent newspapers and whose father was a KGB spy.NBC News, 9 Apr. 2022 Oscar nominees are likely receiving the top-tier $225 package, which includes a deed for a 100-square-foot plot and all the heraldry and plaid-branded accouterments that evoke Scottish peerage. Anne Quito, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2022 See More