List of peerages inherited by women
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In the peerages of the British Isles, most titles have traditionally been created for men and with remainder to male heirs. However, some titles are created with special remainders to allow women to inherit them. Some of the oldest English baronies were created by writ and pass to female heirs when a peer dies with daughters and no sons, while some titles are created with a man's family in mind, if he is without sons and unlikely to produce any. The following is a list of women who have inherited titles with the British peerages.
14th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles by marriage |
Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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21 October 1314 | 19 October 1356 | 2nd Baroness Geneville | Joan de Geneville (Mortimer) | Countess of March | Geoffrey de Geneville, grandfather | Roger Mortimer, son |
6 June 1333 | 10 December 1363 | 4th Countess of Ulster | Elizabeth de Burgh (Plantagenet) | Duchess of Clarence | William de Burgh, father | Philippa, daughter |
4 August 1338 | 24 March 1399 | 2nd Countess of Norfolk | Margaret of Norfolk | Baroness Segrave by first marriage Baroness Manny by second marriage Duchess of Norfolk by creation |
Thomas of Brotherton, father | Thomas Mowbray, grandson |
31 May 1349 | 29 September 1349 | 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell | Margaret Wake (Comyn) | Countess of Kent | Thomas Wake, brother | John, son |
26 December 1352 | 7 August 1385 | 4th Countess of Kent 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell |
Joan Plantagenet (Montacute) (Holland) | Countess of Salisbury Princess of Wales |
John Plantagenet, brother | Thomas Holland, son |
10 December 1363 | 5 January 1382 | 5th Countess of Ulster | Philippa of Clarence | Countess of March | Elizabeth de Burgh, mother | Roger Mortimer, son |
1372 | 3 April 1384 | 2nd Baroness Manny | Anne Hastings | Countess of Pembroke | Walter de Manny, father | John Hastings, son |
15th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles by marriage |
Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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1425 1437 de facto |
1458 | Countess of Lennox | Isabella | Duchess of Albany | Donnchadh, father | Extinct |
3 November 1428 | 1462 | 5th Countess of Salisbury | Alice (Montacute) Neville | Thomas Montacute, father | Richard Neville, son | |
11 June 1446 | 3 January 1448 | 15th Countess of Warwick | Anne de Beauchamp | Henry de Beauchamp, father | Anne Neville and Richard Neville, aunt and uncle | |
3 January 1448 | 20 September 1492 | 16th Countess of Warwick | Anne (de Beauchamp) Neville | Countess of Salisbury | Anne de Beauchamp, niece | Edward Plantagenet, grandson |
1450 | 1468 | 8th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley | Anne Ferrers (Devereux) | William de Ferrers, father | Walter Devereux, husband John Devereux, son | |
30 December 1460 | 12 May 1529 | 7th Baroness Harington | Cecily Bonville (Grey) (Stafford) | Marchioness of Dorset by first marriage Countess of Wiltshire by second marriage |
William Bonville, father | Thomas Grey, son |
18 February 1461 | 2nd Baroness Bonville | William Bonville, great-grandfather | ||||
14 January 1476 | 19 November 1481 | 8th Countess of Norfolk | Anne de Mowbray (Plantagenet) | Duchess of York Duchess of Norfolk |
John Mowbray, father | Extinct |
Baroness Mowbray Baroness Segrave |
John Howard, cousin abeyant | |||||
16 July 1491 | 27 August 1507 | 3rd Baroness Herbert | Elizabeth (Herbert) Somerset | William Herbert, father | Henry Somerset, son |
16th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles | Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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1513 | 1539 attainted died 27 May 1541 |
8th or 2nd Countess of Salisbury | Margaret Pole | Edward Plantagenet, brother | Forfeit | |
1526 | 19 September 1580 | 12 Baroness Willoughby de Eresby | Catherine Willoughby (Brandon) (Bertie) | Duchess of Suffolk | William Willoughby, father | Peregrine Bertie, son |
13 March 1540 | 17 April 1543 dispossessed died 28 January 1571 |
7th Baroness Bourchier | Anne Bourchier (Parr) | Henry Bourchier, father | Walter Devereux, cousin | |
14 April 1587 | 1 May 1591 | 16th Baroness de Ros | Elizabeth (Manners) Cecil | Edward Manners, father | William Cecil, son |
17th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles by marriage |
Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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30 October 1605 claimed 1628 |
22 March 1676 | 14th Baroness de Clifford | Anne Clifford (Sackville) (Herbert) | Countess of Dorset by first marriage Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery by second marriage |
George Clifford, father | Nicholas Tufton, grandson |
14 October 1618 | 17 September 1637 | 2nd Baroness Clifton | Katherine Clifton (Stewart) (Hamilton) | Countess of March Duchess of Lennox by first marriage Countess of Abercorn by second marriage |
Gervase Clifton, father | James Stewart, son |
1632 | October 1649 | 19th Baroness de Ros | Katherine (Manners) Villiers (MacDonnell) | Duchess of Buckingham by first marriage Countess of Antrim Marchioness of Antrim by second marriage |
Francis Manners, father | George Villiers, son |
1651 | 24 May 1654 | 13th Baroness Furnivall | Alethea (Talbot) Howard | Countess of Arundel | Gilbert Talbot, father | Henry Howard, son |
12 September 1651 | 1698 resigned died 17 October 1716 |
3rd Duchess of Hamilton | Anne Hamilton (Douglas) | William Hamilton, uncle | James Hamilton, son | |
22 November 1651 | 11 March 1661 | 3rd Countess of Buccleuch | Mary Scott | Countess of Tarras | Francis Scott, father | Anne Scott, sister |
11 September 1653 | 5 June 1698 | 2nd Countess of Dysart 2nd Baroness Huntingtower |
Elizabeth (Murray) (Tollemache) Maitland | Duchess of Lauderdale | William Murray, father | Lionel Tollemache, son |
11 March 1661 | 6 February 1732 | 4th Countess of Buccleuch | Anne Scott | Duchess of Buccleuch by creation |
Mary Scott, sister | Francis Scott, grandson |
25 March 1667 | 23 April 1686 | 6th Baroness Wentworth | Henrietta Wentworth | Thomas Wentworth, grandfather | Anne Lovelace, aunt | |
July 1679 | 11 March 1705 | 3rd Countess of Wemyss | Margaret Wemyss (Mackenzie) | Lady Burntisland by first marriage Countess of Cromartie by second marriage |
David Wemyss, father | David Wemyss, son |
28 July 1685 | 7 February 1723 | 2nd Countess of Arlington | Isabella (Bennet) FitzRoy (Hanmer) | Duchess of Grafton | Henry Bennet, father | Charles FitzRoy, son |
23 April 1686 | 1697 | 7th Baroness Wentworth | Baroness Lovelace | Henrietta Wentworth, niece | Martha Johnson, granddaughter | |
19 June 1697 | 17 November 1705 | 7th Baroness Mordaunt | Mary Howard | Duchess of Norfolk | Henry Mordaunt, father | Charles Mordaunt, cousin |
1697 confirmed 1702 |
1745 | 7th Baroness Wentworth | Anne Lovelace, grandmother | Edward Noel, first cousin twice removed |
18th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles by marriage |
Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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1714 | 26 June 1718 | 4th Baroness Strange | Henrietta Stanley | Countess of Anglesey by first marriage Baroness Ashburnham by second marriage |
William Stanley, father | Henrietta Ashburnham, daughter |
1717 | 19 August 1758 | 14th Countess of Erroll | Mary Hay (Falconer) | Charles Hay, brother | James Hay, great-nephew | |
25 December 1717 | 13 March 1741 | 15th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley | Elizabeth (Shirley) Compton | Countess of Northampton | Robert Shirley, grandfather | Abeyant (later Charlotte Townshend, daughter) |
26 June 1718 | 1732 | 5th Baroness Strange | Henrietta Stanley, mother | James Stanley, great-uncle | ||
16 June 1722 | 24 October 1733 | 2nd Duchess of Marlborough | Henrietta Godolphin | Countess of Godolphin | John Churchill, father | Charles Spencer, nephew |
29 January 1737 | 5 December 1756 | 2nd Countess of Orkney | Anne (Douglas-Hamilton) O'Brien | Countess Inchiquin | George Douglas-Hamilton, father | Mary O'Brien, daughter |
5 June 1740 | 10 January 1797 | 2nd Marchioness Grey | Jemima (Campbell) Yorke | Countess of Hardwicke | Henry Grey, grandfather | Extinct |
4th Baroness Lucas | Amabel Hume-Campbell, daughter | |||||
14 September 1749 | 1752 | 2nd Viscountess Cobham | Hester (Grenville) Temple | Countess Temple by creation |
Richard Temple, brother | Richard Grenville-Temple, son |
1749 | 3 September 1770 | 16th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley | Charlotte (Compton) Townshend | Viscountess Townshend | Elizabeth Compton, mother abeyant 1741-1749 |
George Townshend, son |
3 October 1754 | 7th Baroness Compton | James Compton, father | ||||
7 February 1750 | 5 December 1776 | 2nd Baroness Percy | Elizabeth (Seymour) Percy | Duchess of Northumberland | Algernon Seymour, father | Hugh Percy, son |
15 December 1753 | 8 December 1754 | 6th Baroness Clifford | Charlotte (Boyle) Cavendish | Marchioness of Hartington | Richard Boyle | William Cavendish, son |
5 December 1756 | 10 May 1791 | 3rd Countess of Orkney | Mary O'Brien | Countess Inchiquin | Anne O'Brien, mother | Mary FitzMaurice, daughter |
8 January 1764 | 13 October 1805 | 8th Baroness Strange | Charlotte Murray | Duchess of Atholl | James Murray, father | John Murray, son |
1766 | 29 January 1839 | 19th Countess of Sutherland | Elizabeth (Sutherland) Leveson-Gower | Marchioness of Stafford Duchess of Sutherland |
William Sutherland, father | George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, son |
27 April 1782 | 14 March 1793 | 2nd Baroness Dynevor | Cecil de Cardonnel | William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, father | George Talbot Rice, son | |
16 May 1778 | 27 January 1784 | de jure 12th Baroness Darcy de Knayth 9th Baroness Conyers |
Amelia (Darcy) Osborne | Marchioness of Carmarthen | Robert Darcy, father | George Osborne, son |
28 April 1786 | 8 January 1840 | 6th Countess of Loudoun | Flora Mure-Campbell | Marchioness of Hastings | James Mure-Campbell, father | George Rawdon-Hastings, son |
2 October 1789 | 11 April 1808 | 16th Baroness Botreaux 15th Baroness Hungerford 13th Baroness de Moleyns 13th Baroness Hastings de Hastings 12th Baroness Hastings de Hungerford |
Elizabeth (Hastings) Rawdon | Countess of Moira | Francis Hastings, brother | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, son |
10 May 1791 | 30 December 1831 | 4th Countess of Orkney | Mary (O'Brien) FitzMaurice | Mary O'Brien, mother | Thomas FitzMaurice, grandson |
19th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles by marriage |
Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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1806 | 9 January 1831 | 21st Baroness de Ros | Charlotte (Boyle Walsingham) FitzGerald-de Ros | abeyant 1687-1806 (previously George Villiers, cousin) | Henry FitzGerald-de Ros, son | |
29 October 1810 | 18 November 1858 | 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn | Barbara Rawdon-Hastings | Marchioness of Hastings | Henry Yelverton, father | Henry Rawdon-Hastings, son |
17 June 1813 | 12 April 1823 | 2nd Baroness Barham | Diana Noel | Charles Middleton, father | Charles Noel, son | |
25 February 1816 | 2 January 1831 | 9th Viscountess Massereene | Viscountess Ferrard | Chichester Skeffington, father | John Skeffington, son | |
9 March 1821 | 22 September 1840 | 7th Countess of Dysart | Louisa Tollemache Manners | Wilbraham Tollemache, brother | Lionel Tollemache, grandson | |
10 March 1823 | 11 November 1867 | 2nd Baroness Keith | Margaret Elphinstone de Flahault | Comtesse de Flahault | George Elphinstone, father | Extinct |
1837 | 7th Lady Nairne not recognised |
William Nairne, cousin | Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, daughter | |||
14 February 1835 | 22 January 1855 | 2nd Baroness Basset | Frances Basset | Francis Basset, father | Extinct | |
1856 | 16 May 1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth | Anne Isabella Byron | Baroness Byron | Thomas Noel, uncle abeyant 1815–1856 |
Byron Noel-King, grandson |
1868 | 23 January 1874 | 10th Countess of Loudoun | Edith Rawdon-Hastings | Henry Rawdon-Hastings, brother | Charles Clifton, son | |
1888 | 17 November 1926 | 13th Baroness Conyers | Marcia Pelham | Countess of Yarborough | Sackville Lane-Fox, father abeyant 1895-1896 |
Sackville Pelham, son |
1903 | 7th Baroness Fauconberg | Joan Neville abeyant 1490–1903 | ||||
26 March 1889 | 17 October 1944 | 11th Lady Kinloss | Mary Morgan-Grenville | Richard Temple-Grenville, father | Mary Freeman-Grenville, granddaughter | |
1896 | 31 August 1971 | 11th Baroness Beaumont | Mona (Stapleton) Fitzalan-Howard | Baroness Howard of Glossop | Miles Stapleton, father abeyant 1888-1892 |
Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, son |
20th century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles by marriage |
Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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1903 | 29 April 1929 | 16th Baroness Darcy de Knayth | Violet Herbert | Countess of Powis | Sackville Lane-Fox, father abeyant 1490-1903 |
Mervyn Herbert, son |
28 August 1906 | 18 June 1917 | 14th Baroness Wentworth | Ada King-Milbanke | Ralph King-Milbanke, father | Anne Blunt, aunt | |
29 April 1907 | 4 May 1939 | 25th Baroness de Ros | Mary (FitzGerald-de Ros) Dawson | Countess of Dartrey | Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, father | Una Ross, daughter abeyant 1939–1943 |
1908 | 28 August 1945 | 12th Lady Herries of Terregles | Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard | Duchess of Norfolk | Marmaduke Constable-Maxwell, father | Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, son |
12 January 1912 | 26 February 1959 | 2nd Duchess of Fife | HH Princess Alexandra of Fife | HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught | Alexander Duff, father | James Carnegie, nephew |
25 March 1913 | 24 December 1936 | 2nd Viscountess Wolseley | Frances Garnet Wolseley | Garnet Joseph Wolseley, father | Extinct | |
21 January 1914 | 18 August 1926 | 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal | Margaret Howard | Donald Alexander Smith, father | Donald Sterling Palmer Howard, son | |
14 November 1914 | 9 October 1944 | 2nd Countess Roberts | Aileen Roberts | Frederick Roberts, father | Ada Lewin, sister | |
12 November 1915 | 30 September 1969 | 12th Countess of Seafield | Nina Studley-Herbert | James Ogilvie-Grant, father | Ian Ogilvie-Grant, son | |
18 June 1917 | 15 December 1917 | 15th Baroness Wentworth | Anne Blunt | Ada King-Milbanke, niece | Judith Blunt-Lytton, daughter | |
15 December 1917 | 8 August 1957 | 16th Baroness Wentworth | Judith Blunt-Lytton | Anne Blunt, mother | Noel Lytton, son | |
3 July 1918 | 20 July 1958 | 2nd Viscountess Rhondda | Margaret Mackworth | David Alfred Thomas, father | Extinct | |
17 May 1920 | 24 February 1960 | 12th Countess of Loudoun | Edith Abney-Hastings | Charles Clifton, uncle | Barbara Abney-Hastings, daughter | |
7 March 1921 | 23rd Baroness Botreaux 20th Baroness Hastings |
Charles Rawdon-Hastings, uncle abeyant 1920-1921 |
Abeyant | |||
7th Baroness Stanley | Ferdinando Stanley abeyant 1594-1921 | |||||
23 February 1921 | 12 December 1974 | 14th Baroness Strange | Elizabeth Philipps | Viscountess St Davids | Jestyn Philipps, son | |
22nd Baroness Hungerford 21st Baroness de Moleyns |
Charles Clifton, uncle abeyant 1920-1921 | |||||
20 March 1925 | 9 February 1966 | 2nd Baroness Ravensdale | Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale | Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston created for life |
George Curzon, father | Nicholas Mosley, nephew |
1935 | 2 June 1975 | 10th Countess of Dysart | Wenefryde Scott | William Tollemache, uncle | Rosamund Greaves, daughter | |
24 January 1941 | 16 May 1978 | 23rd Countess of Erroll | Diana Hay (Moncreiffe) | Josslyn Hay, father | Merlin Hay, son | |
March 1943 | 24 February 2008 | 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth | Davina Ingrams | Mervyn Herbert, father | Caspar Ingrams, son | |
1943 | 9 October 1956 | 26th Baroness de Ros | Una Dawson Ross | Mary Dawson, mother | Georgiana Maxwell, granddaughter abeyant 1956–1958 | |
17 October 1944 | 30 September 2012 | 12th Lady Kinloss | Mary Freeman-Grenville | Mary Morgan-Grenville, grandmother | Teresa Freeman-Grenville, daughter | |
9 October 1944 | 1955 | 3rd Countess Roberts | Aileen Roberts, sister | Extinct | ||
16 April 1956 | 17 April 1982 | 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland | Bridget (Hore-Ruthven) (Howard) Monckton | Countess of Carlisle by first marriage Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley by second marriage |
Walter Hore-Ruthven, father | Charles Howard, son |
1958 | 21 April 1983 | 27th Baroness de Ros | Georgiana Maxwell | Una Ross, grandmother abeyant 1956-1958 |
Peter Maxwell, son | |
24 February 1960 | 1 November 2002 | 13th Countess of Loudoun | Barbara (Huddleston) Abney-Hastings | Edith Abney-Hastings, mother | Michael Abney-Hastings, son | |
1 February 1963 | 9 December 2019 | 24th Countess of Sutherland | Elizabeth Sutherland | George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, uncle | Alistair Charles St. Clair Sutherland, eldest son | |
26 May 1966 | 21 September 1974 | 11th Countess of Kintore | Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer | Viscountess Stonehaven | Arthur George Keith-Falconer, brother | James Ian Baird, son |
22 July 1969 | 4 May 1974 | 10th Baroness Wharton | Elisabeth Kemeys-Tynte | John Kemeys-Tynte, brother | Myrtle Robertson, daughter abeyant 1974–1990 | |
1970 | 25 December 2012 | 27th Baroness Dacre | Rachel Douglas-Home | Thomas Brand, father abeyant 1965-1970 |
James Douglas-Home, son | |
22 April 1971 | 1990 | 2nd Baroness Portal of Hungerford | Rosemary Portal | Charles Portal, father | Extinct | |
31 January 1975 | 25 November 2014 | 14th Lady Herries of Terregles | Anne Cowdrey | Baroness Cowdrey of Tonbridge | Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, father | Mary Mumford, sister |
21 April 1975 | 31st Countess of Mar | Margaret (Lane) of Mar | James of Mar, father | |||
1982 | 11 March 2005 | 16th Baroness Strange | Cherry Drummond of Megginch | John Drummond, father | Adam Drummond, son | |
29 March 1983 | 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby | Nancy Jane Marie Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, father | |||
1975 | 2003 | 11th Countess of Dysart | Rosamund Greaves | Wenefryde Scott, mother | Katherine Grant, sister | |
27 August 1979 | 13 June 2017 | 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma | Patricia Knatchbull | Baroness Brabourne | Louis Mountbatten, father | Norton Knatchbull, son |
31 August 1979 | 21st Lady Saltoun | Flora Fraser | Alexander Fraser, father | |||
19 Dec. 1985 | 8th Baroness Braye | Mary Penelope Verney-Cave[1] | ||||
1990 | 15 May 2000 | 11th Baroness Wharton | Myrtle Robertson | Elisabeth Kemeys-Tynte, mother abeyant 1974–1990 |
Myles Robertson, son | |
30 June 1995 | 16th Baroness Berners | Pamela Vivien Kirkham | , mother abeyant 1992-1995 |
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May 1999 | 11th Baroness Arlington | Jennifer Nelson Forwood | John FitzRoy, uncle abeyant 1936-1999 |
21st century[]
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title |
Title | Name | Other titles | Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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17 December 2003 | 8 November 2011 | 12th Countess of Dysart | Katherine Grant | Rosamund Greaves, sister | John Grant, son | |
25 June 2004 | 10th Baroness Howard de Walden | John Osmael Scott-Ellis, father abeyant 1999-2004 |
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17 May 2012 | 2 March 2013 | 9th Baroness Fauconberg 15th Baroness Conyers |
Diana Miller | Countess of Mértola | Sackville George Pelham, father abeyant 1948-2012 |
titles abeyant |
30 September 2012 | 13th Lady Kinloss | Teresa Freeman-Grenville | Mary Freeman-Grenville, mother | |||
8 May 2014 | 29th Baroness Dacre | Emily Douglas-Home | James Douglas-Home, father | |||
25 November 2014 | 7 April 2017 | 15th Lady Herries of Terregles | Mary Mumford | Anne Cowdrey, sister | Jane Kerr, sister | |
7 April 2017 | 16th Lady Herries of Terregles | Jane Kerr | Marchioness of Lothian | Mary Mumford, sister | ||
2019 | 9th Lady Balfour of Burleigh | Victoria Bruce-Winkler | , father |
See also[]
References[]
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