By the Act for the Union of Ireland, 39 and 40 George III. chap. 67, it is enacted, "The Lords of Parliament, on the part of Ireland, shall have the same privileges as the Lords on the part of Great Britain; and all the Lords Spiritual of Ireland shall have rank next after the Lords Spiritual of the same rank in Great Britain, and shall enjoy the same privileges, (except those depending upon sitting in the House of Lords,) and the Temporal Peers of Ireland shall have rank next after the Peers of the like rank in Great Britain at the time of the Union; and all Peerages of Ireland and of the United Kingdom, created after the Union, shall have rank according to creation, and all Peerages of Great Britain and Ireland shall in all other respects be considered as Peerages of the United Kingdom, and the Peers of Ireland shall enjoy the same privileges, except those depending upon sitting in the House of Lords."

On the extinction of three Irish Peerages, the Sovereign has the power to create one new Irish Peerage, which is to rank among the English Peers, according to their dates.

ALPHABETICAL LIST

OF

PEERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED KINGDOM,

Holding superior rank in the Scotch or Irish Peerages. They sit and vote in the House of Lords by the British Title given in this List, but are known, and also described in this work by the Superior Title which is here annexed to it in the second column.

ALPHABETICAL LIST

OF

SCOTCH AND IRISH PEERS,

Holding superior Titles in the Peerage of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, which are here annexed in the second column. They will be found in this work under the Superior Title.

SUPERIOR TITLE.

Marquis of Abercorn. (His Lordship is also Viscount Strabane in the

Peerage of Ireland.)

Marquis of Breadalbane.

Marquis of Ailsa.

Earl Cathcart.

Marquis Cholmondeley.

Earl of Powis.

Marquis of Hertford.

Marquis of Dalhousie.

Earl of Denbigh.

Earl Digby.

Duke of Leeds.
Marquis of Bute.

Earl of Verulam.

Earl of Jersey.

Viscount Hood.

Marquis of Lansdowne.

Duke of Richmond.

Earl of Scarborough.

Marquis of Hastings.

Marquis of Normanby.
Duke of Buckingham.

Earl of Harborough.

Earl of Mansfield.

Marquis of Abercorn. (His Lordship

is also Earl of Abercorn in the

Peerage of Scotland.)

Duke of Sutherland.
Earl of Shrewsbury.

Baron Lyttelton.

LIST OF THE PEERS COLLECTIVELY,

IN THEIR ORDER OF PRECEDence.

E signifies English, S Scotch, I Irish; all that follow are of the same Peerage till differently marked. All Peers bearing two titles of equal grade are named by both, but placed in the precedence of the first, and classed in the Peerage to which the superior title belongs.