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Baron Conyers

The abeyance after the death of the 3rd baron was terminated for the 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth, these baronies were held together until the abeyance of 1888, after which the abeyance of these two baronies were separately terminated.

Conyers Darcy, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 4th Baron Conyers (1570–1654) (abeyance terminated c. 1641/44 in favour of the 3rd Baron's grandson)

Since 1509, the Barons Conyers had held a part of the "right" to the barony Fauconberg, i.e. the part for which the abeyance was terminated in 1903; and since the termination of the abeyance of the barony Fauconberg, the two baronies, Conyers and Fauconberg, had been held together; from 1948 they were abeyant between the two daughters of the 5th Earl of Yarborough.

Baron Fauconberg

Between 1463 and 1903 the title was abeyant, until the abeyance was terminated in favour of Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox, who also gained the titles Baron Conyers and Baron Darcy.

Baron Furnivall

In 1913 the abeyance was terminated again in favour of Mary Frances Katherine Petre, daughter of Bernard Petre, 14th Baron Petre.

Baron Thweng

Baron Thweng (Tweng, Thwinge etc.) is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England created when Sir Marmaduke Thweng, a famous knight who took part in the First War of Scottish Independence who was called to parliament in 1307.

Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche

In 1815 the Barony of Zouche was called out of abeyance in favour of Sir Cecil Bishopp, 8th Baronet of Parham Park (see Bishopp baronets of Parham), who became the twelfth Baron Zouche.

Thus on his death in 1828 he was succeeded in the Baronetcy (but not the family estate at Parham) by a cousin George Bisshopp Dean of Lismore in Ireland, while the Barony of Zouche once again fell into abeyance, this time between his two daughters Hon.

David Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi

The second period of abeyance was terminated in 1916 in favour of Cuthbert Kenworthy, the grandfather of the 11th Baron Strabolgi, who succeeded Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi in 1953.

John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers

It was brought out of abeyance by his grandson, Conyers Darcy, some time between 1641 and 1644.

John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange

Following his petition to HM the Queen, the abeyance was terminated 18 December 1964 in favour of John Drummond of Megginch.

John FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton

The viscountcy and earldom remain abeyant, but the abeyance of his barony was terminated in 1999, in favour of Lady Jane's eldest daughter, Jennifer.

London Borough of Lambeth

Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua; Moskvoretsky in Russia (although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow); Brooklyn, New York in the United States; Shinjuku in Japan; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.

Madre de Deus

In 1592, by virtue of the Iberian Union, the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 was in abeyance, and as the Anglo–Spanish War was still ongoing, Portuguese shipping was a fair target for the Royal Navy.

Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis

Eleven years later, on 29 September 1903, the Barony of Fauconberg (a title which had been in abeyance since the death of the last holder, the 6th Baroness Fauconberg in 1490), was also granted to Lady Yarborough.


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