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Charles Low, 2nd Baron Aldington

Charles Harold Stuart Low, 2nd Baron Aldington (born 22 June 1948) is a British peer, the son of Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington.

Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings

Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings and 6th Countess of Loudoun (1780 – 8 January 1840) was a British peeress, second daughter of James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun and Lady Flora Macleod.

Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne

Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, GCSI, GCIE, MC (8 May 1895 – 23 February 1939) was a British peer and soldier, the son of the 4th Baron Brabourne.

Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Huggins remained in office until 1956 and was elevated to the British peerage as Viscount Malvern on 17 February 1955, prior to his retirement.


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Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Gordon DSO MVO (30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935) was a British Peer, the son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond by his first wife, Amy Mary Ricardo (1849–1879), daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park and Mathilde Hensley.

Earl Balfour

For the British peerage title, see Earl of Balfour

Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis

Edmund Lodge The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage, 1859.

Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener

Major Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener DL TD (24 February 1919 – 16 December 2011), styled Viscount Broome from 1928 to 1937, was a British peer.

Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

In 1794 he was granted a British peerage as Baron Mulgrave, entering the House of Lords, and in 1796 he was made Governor of Scarborough Castle.

Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden

William Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden, known as Henry Smith (born 18 November 1955), is a British peer, and descendant of the founders of the stationery group W H Smith.

John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham

John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham KG, GCVO, PC (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928), known as Viscount Lambton until 1879, was a British peer.

Russell case

It covered two divorce cases and the claim to the British peerage title Baron Ampthill, and the possibility of a virgin birth.

William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth

William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth (1654 – 25 December 1732) was a British peer and politician.

William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden

William Herbert "Harry" Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden (2 April 1930 – 2 August 2012), was a British peer and descendant of the founders of the stationery group W H Smith.