Dod's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage Of Great Britain & Ireland 1850
TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.--Amongst these are the insignia peculiar to Princes, Peers, Bishops, Baronets, Knights of the Garter, the Thistle, St. Patrick, the Bath, St. Michael and St, George, the Guelphs of Hanover, &c. PRECEDENCE.—An essay in which the grounds for each claim to precedence are examined and explained at length, under the head of every office or dignity. To this are added copious tables of knightly, of judicial and legal, of clerical, of university, of naval, of military, and of East Indian precedence; as well as an article on precedence amongst ladies. THE PEERS.—Accounts are contained in the following pages of the heads of all the noble families in the empire, whether belonging to the English, the Scottish, or the Irish peerage. These notices are characterized by frequent reference to the circumstances under which titles originated, to the revival of ancient dignities, or to any peculiarity in the course by which hondurs have descended, or are intended to descend. THE PEERESSES.—In the particulars given of the head of every noble family, the married ladies and the dowagers connected with each are mentioned; while, as regards Peeresses in their own right, and dowagers belonging to extinct peerages, separate statements will be found in their proper alphabetical positions. THE BISHOPS.—Copious notices are given, not merely of the Lords spiritual, but of all Bishops, English, Scottish, Irish, or Colonial, including particulars of the local extent of their jurisdiction, the annual values of their sees, the works they have written, the colleges at which they were educated, their births, marriages, and other family particulars. THE BARONETS.—Respecting this large division of the titled orders, the usual details will be found, compiled with great care, and presenting in every respect all the requisites of a complete Baronetage of England, Ireland, and Scotland. THE SCOTTISH JUDGES.—As the Lords of Session have, during the last three centuries, enjoyed a titular distinction, which is sometimes mistaken for a peerage, it has been thought right to include them, though doubtless many readers are aware that their title is merely one of courtesy, and that it ceases with their tenure of office. THE KNIGHTS BACHELOR comprise a large body of eminent lawyers, judges, men of science and of letters, physicians, diplomatists, and artists. In compiling notices of this branch of the titled classes, especial care has been taken to state, in common with all other particulars, the occasions on which their honours were conferred, the offices they have held, and the services which each has performed. THE KNIGHTS OF THE BATH AND OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE.—In these Orders will be found the ministers who represent British interests at foreign courts, or the officers belonging to both branches of the service, whose achievements in various quarters of the world have procured the approbation of the crown and commanded the gratitude of the country. THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—A considerable proportion of this body are either Peers, Bishops, Baronets, or Knights; but even such as are not included within these Orders are still men of great eminence in the state, and fill or have filled the highest offices in the public service. Enjoying the prefix of "RIGHT HONOURABLE," they may be regarded as forming a portion of the titled classes; and, considering the conspicuous position which they occupy, nothing that relates to them can be indifferent to the public. Details respecting all the Privy Council will therefore be found in this work under their individual heads. THE SONS, DAUGHTERS, &c. OF PEERS, BEARING COURTESY TITLES.—Upwards of four thousand persons enjoy titles by courtesy ; viz. the sons and daughters of living or deceased peers, and in some cases, their grandchildren or collateral relatives. In the same manner, as heads of families form one dictionary in the first part of the work, so the junior members of noble houses are alphabetically arranged in the second portion of the volume, with full particulars of their parentage, their ages, their marriages, their offices, and their professions. This series of accounts contains all who by courtesy enjoy the titles of "Lord," or " Lady," or "Honourable;11 the public are here, therefore, presented with a comprehensive and accessible view of the younger branches of the nobility, neither parcelled out into families nor distributed into ranks, but collected into the only order which can prove permanently convenient, that of one general alphabetical arrangement. MODES OF ADDRESSING LETTERS.—A series of statements, exhibiting the formal mode of addressing letters to every person of title, arranged in alphabetical order. THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD.—Lists of all the Members of the various orders of Knighthood, arranged alphabetically, exhibiting the dates of their respective elections, and distinguishing those who are included in Part I. THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—A complete list of the Privy Councils of Great Britain and Ireland, marking such of its members as enjoy no other title than that which they derive from their appointment to the Council Board. |
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