James Earl Jones | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Earl | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Earl of Derby | Earl Warren | Earl of Pembroke | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Earl of Warwick | 5th United States Congress | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Earl of Shrewsbury | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | Fort Knox | Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick | Knox County | Earl of Leicester | South Carolina's 5th congressional district | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | 5th arrondissement of Marseille | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | John Knox | Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Earl of Devon |
Becoming a cadet on board H.M.S. Britannia, he passed for the Royal Navy, but, giving up a naval career, entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of eighteen.