* Lord Wensleydale takes precedence in society from the date of his Life Peerage in Jan. 1856, before the Lords Aveland and Lyons. TABLE OF PRECEDENCY AMONG MEN. The SOVEReign. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. Grandsons of the Sovereign, The Sovereign's Brothers' or Sisters' Sons. His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold (King of the Belgians). The Lord High Treasurer. The Lord President of the Privy Council. The Lord Great Chamberlain. The Earl Marshal, The Lord High Admiral. The Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household. EARLS, according to their Patents. VISCOUNTS, according to their Patents. Marquises' younger Sons. Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester. All other English Bishops, according to their Seniority of Consecration. (d) All other Irish Bishops, according to their Seniority of Consecration. BARONS, according to their Patents. (e) Speaker of the House of Commons, Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household. (a) Being of the degree of Barons by stat. 31 Henry 8th. By this statute, the Lord Great Chamberlain of England had place next to the Lord Privy Seal; but in the year 1714, the Marquis of Lindsey, then Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, being created Duke of Ancaster, gave up the precedency as Lord Great Chamberlain from him and his heirs, except only when he or they shall be in the actual execution of the said office of Great Chamberlain of England, attending the person of the King or Queen for the time being, or introducing a Peer or Peers into the House of Lords; which was confirmed by stat. 1 George 1. (b) Above all of their degree, viz,; if Dukes, above all other dukes; if Earls, above all other earls. (c) For the precedence of the English, Scotch, and Irish Peers collectively, see page lix. (d) If any bishop be principal secretary of state, he shall be placed above all other bishops, unless they have any of the before-mentioned great offices. (e) If any baron be principal secretary of state, he shall be placed above all other barons, unless they have any of the before-mentioned great offices. Mem.-The priority of signing any treaty or public instrument, by public ministers, is always taken by rank of place, and not by title. Viscounts' eldest Sons. Barons' eldest Sons. Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. The Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery. Vice-Chancellors. Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts. Bannerets, made under the Sovereign's own Royal Standard displayed in army royal Baronets of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Knights Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George. Knights Commanders of St. Michael and St. George. Cavalieri and Companions of St. Michael and St. George. Eldest Sons of Knights of the Garter. Eldest Sons of Knights of the Bath. Younger Sons of the younger Sons of Peers. Esquires of the Sovereign's Body. Younger Sons of Knights of the Garter. Younger Sons of Knights of the Bath. Clergymen, Barristers at Law, Officers in the Navy and Army, who are all Gentlemen, and have their respective precedency in their several Professions. Citizens. TABLE OF PRECEDENCY AMONG WOMEN. The QUEEN. The PRINCESS of Wales. PRINCESSES, Daughters of the Sovereign. PRINCESSES and DUCHESSES, Wives of the Sovereign's Sons. Wives of the eldest Sons of Dukes of the Blood Royal. DUCHESSES. Wives of the eldest Sons of Dukes. Wives of the eldest Sons of Marquises. Wives of the younger Sons of Dukes. Wives of the eldest Sons of Earls. Wives of the younger Sons of Marquises. Wives of the eldest Sons of Viscounts. Wives of the younger Sons of Earls. Maids of Honour. Wives of Knights of the Garter. Wives of the younger Sons of Viscounts. Wives of Knights Grand Crosses of the Order of the Bath. Wives of Companions of the Bath. Wives of Cavalieri and Companions of St. Michael and St. George. Wives of the eldest Sons of Knights of the Garter. Wives of the eldest Sons of Bannerets. Wives of the eldest Sons of Knights of the Bath. Wives of the eldest Sons of Knights Bachelors. Wives of the younger Sons of the younger Sons of Peers. } (a) Daughters of Esquires entitled to bear Arms, who are Gentlewomen by birth. (a) This rank is ordinarily accorded to these Ladies in regard to the Honor conferred upon their Husbands, although they are not named in the Statutes of the Orders. |