Lieutenant .......................... 134 Ensign ................................ ib. Exempts or Exons .............. ib. Master of the Horse............... 136 Chief Equerry......................... 137 Clerk of the closet...... ............. ib. ***... 129 ................. ib. The Prince of Wales............... 116 The Earldom of Chester ......... 117 The Dukedom of Cornwall...... ib. The Princess of Wales............ 121 The Princess Royal ....... ............... ib. Table of allowances to the Royal Family, alphabetically arranged, with the conditions of the respective grants 122 The Royal Household ............. 124 Keeper of the Privy Purse ...... 126 Lord Steward of the Household ib. Treasurer of the Household ... 128 Comptroller of the Household.. ib. ib. hold Hereditary Grand Almoner ib. Lord High Almoner ............... 130 Knight Marshal ib. Gentlemen of the Privy Cham- ber 131 Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber ib. Gentlemen Ushers, Daily Wai- ters .......... 132 Gentlemen Ushers, Quarterly Waiters ib. Master of the Ceremonies ib. Gentlemen at Arms ib. Captain of the Gentlemen at 133 Lieutenant ib. Standard Bearer ib. Clerk of the Cheque ............... ib. Harbinger ....... ib. Yeomen of the Guard ............ 134 Yeomen Hangers .................. ib. Yeoman Bedgoers................... ib. Beefeaters ib. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ib. SECTION II.-The Peerage...... 141 The Peerage and the House of Lords .............. ib. Peers of England ................. 141 Peers of Scotland ib. Peers of Great Britain ............ 142 Peers of Ireland.... ib. Peers of the United Kingdom.. ib. Lords Spiritual ib. Peers of Parliament....... ib. The Peerage of Scotland ......... ib. Election of Scottish represen- tative Peers 143 The Union Roll of Scotland 144 Mode of voting at the Election ib. The Peerage of Ireland 1 45 Limitations affecting the crea- tion of new Irish Peerages... 146 Mode of Electing the first Irish representative Peers. ......... 147 Mode of filling up vacancies in the representative branch of the Irish Peerage ............... 148 The Lords Spiritual ............... 149 The rotation of Irish represen- tative Prelates, and the modi- Peers. ....... Arms ......... fications which it has under- Attainder of the heir apparent. 167 149 Attainder of Coheirs............. ib. Rota of Irish representative Forfeiture Prelates for the next six Abeyance ib. be terminated................... 171 Writ of Summons to Parliament 152 Dormancy Decision of the Lords respect- Duke ing Writs of Summons......... 153 Marquis his father's Barony ............. 154 156 bers of the Peerage ............. 182 Claims to Peerages ................ 186 Succession to Peerages ib. Privileges of the Peerage 160 Extinction of Titles ................. 161 Section III.-The Baronetage 193 Rules observed in Impeach- Baronets of Scotland or Nova ments ................................ 163 Attainder .............................. 166 Baronets of Ireland ................ ......... 179 Titles by courtesy ................ 201 Knighthood ........................ 211 Knight Banneret ................... 213 Knight Bachelor .................. 215 The Order of the Garter ......... 219 Military Knights of Windsor... 222 Naval Knights of Windsor...... 223 The Order of the Thistle .......... 255 KnightsCommander of the Bath 237 Companions of the Bath ......... 238 Hanover ............................ 245 List of persons entitled to the The Collar of SS ................... 249 PART IV._OFFICIAL AND PROFESSIONAL RANKS. The Privy Council ............... 257 Style and title of Privy Coun- cillors ...... 259 The Cabinet Council ............ 260 Premier, or Prime Minister..... ib. List of the Cabinet Ministers... 261 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.................... 262 List of members of the Judicial Master of the Rolls ............... 325 Committee .................... 262 Chief Justice of the Common 263 Chief Baron of the Exchequer 329 List of Members of the Board The Vice-Chancellors ib. The Attorney-General ............ 334 Lord President of the Council.. ib. The Solicitor-General ............. 338 264 Queen's Counsel .................. 339 The Privy Council in Ireland... 265 Legal Functionaries in Scot- Privileges of Parliament......... 267 The Court of Session Mode of sitting in the house of Lords of Session Mode of sitting in the house of Legal Functionaries in Ireland 350 Speaker of the house of Com- Duties and Privileges of the Lord High Treasurer ............ 274 Qualifications of the Clergy...... 357 Chancellor of the Exchequer... 275 Curates........................ Secretaries of State for the Vicars Southern and Northern, Rectors Home and Foreign, Colonial Archdeacons and War departments ......... 280 Dean and Canon ................... 362 Under Secretaries of State 281 Bishops ........................... 364 Lord Great Chamberlain of Archbishops ib. Archbishoprics and Bishoprics 284 in the United Church of Eng- 287 land and Ireland alphabeti- Earl Marshal of England......... 291 The Church Temporalities Act The Heralds' College, or Col- provisions ......................... 390 The Heralds of Scotland......... 298 The University of Oxford ib. The Office of Arms in Ireland.. 300 Colleges at Oxford......... 301 The University of Cambridge... 397 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland...... 306 Colleges of Cambridge Lords Justices of Ireland ...... 308 The University of Durham ....... 398 List of officers who are changed The University of London ib. with every new ministry. 309 University College, London 399 King's College, London .......... 400 Lord High Chancellor ............. 316 The Scottish Universities ...... ib. Lord High Steward .................. 319 The University of St. Andrew's ib. Chief Justice of the Queen's The University of Aberdeen ... ib. PREFACE. Family histories and personal memoirs of the titled orders have at all times been so favourably received by the public, that a volume describing and illustrating the nature, characteristics, and extent of the honours which those classes possess, cannot fail to be readily appreciated, and generally acceptable. Peerages and similar works contain frequent references to the peculiar privileges and functions of the high officers of state, as well as to numerous inci. dents immediately affecting those dignities which the personages noticed in such works enjoy. Much of the honour also which attaches to the living objects of our esteem is to be traced to the influence of official station, as well as to the hereditary or other distinctions which such persons possess; and it has, therefore, long been considered that a com |
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