This page lists all peerages created for retiring speakers of the House of Commons. Extant titles are in bold.
Title | Created | Speaker | Current status | Notes |
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Reign of Queen Anne, 1707–1714 | ||||
no peerage creations for Speakers | ||||
Reign of King George I, 1714–1727 | ||||
Baron Onslow | 19 June 1716 | Sir Richard Onslow, Bt. | Extant | Created with a special remainder |
Reign of King George II, 1727–1760 | ||||
Baron Wilmington | 8 January 1728 | Sir Spencer Compton [1] | Extinct 2 July 1743 | |
Earl of Wilmington | 14 May 1730 | The 1st Baron Wilmington | Extinct 2 July 1743 | |
Reign of King George III, 1760–1820 | ||||
Baron Grantley | 9 April 1782 | Sir Fletcher Norton | Extant | |
Baron Grenville | 25 November 1790 | William Grenville | Extinct 12 January 1834 | |
Baron Redesdale | 15 February 1802 | Sir John Mitford | Extinct 2 May 1886 | |
Viscount Sidmouth | 12 January 1805 | Henry Addington [2] | Extant | |
On 5 February 1811, George Prince of Wales became the Prince Regent | ||||
Baron Colchester | 3 June 1817 | Charles Abbot | Extinct 26 February 1919 | |
Reign of King George IV, 1820–1830 | ||||
no peerage creations for Speakers | ||||
Reign of King William IV, 1830–1837 | ||||
Viscount Canterbury Baron Bottesford | 10 March 1835 | Charles Manners-Sutton [3] | Extinct 26 February 1941 | |
Reign of Queen Victoria, 1837–1901 | ||||
Baron Dunfermline | 7 June 1839 | James Abercromby [4] | Extinct 2 July 1868 | |
Viscount Eversley | 11 April 1857 | Charles Shaw-Lefevre | Extinct 28 December 1888 | |
Viscount Ossington | 13 February 1872 | Evelyn Denison | Extinct 7 March 1873 | |
Viscount Hampden | 4 March 1884 | Henry Brand [5] [6] | Extant | |
Viscount Peel | 9 May 1895 | Arthur Peel | Extant | [7] |
Reign of King Edward VII, 1901–1910 | ||||
Viscount Selby | 6 July 1905 | William Gully | Extant | |
Reign of King George V, 1910–1936 | ||||
Viscount Ullswater | 8 July 1921 | James Lowther [8] | Extant | |
Reign of King Edward VIII, 1936 | ||||
no peerage creations for Speakers | ||||
Reign of King George VI, 1936–1952 | ||||
Viscount Ruffside | 14 December 1951 | Douglas Clifton Brown | Extinct 5 May 1958 | |
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II, 1952–2022 | ||||
Viscount Dunrossil | 12 November 1959 | William Morrison | Extant | |
Baron Maybray-King | 2 March 1971 | Horace King | Extinct 3 September 1986 | Life peerage |
Baron Selwyn-Lloyd | 8 March 1976 | Selwyn Lloyd | Extinct 17 May 1978 | Life peerage |
Viscount Tonypandy | 11 July 1983 | George Thomas | Extinct 22 September 1997 | |
Baron Weatherill | 15 July 1992 | Bernard Weatherill | Extinct 6 May 2007 | Life peerage |
Baroness Boothroyd | 15 January 2001 | Betty Boothroyd | Extinct 26 February 2023 | Life peerage |
Baron Martin of Springburn | 25 August 2009 | Michael Martin | Extinct 29 April 2018 | Life peerage |
Reign of King Charles III, 2022–present | ||||
no peerage creations for Speakers | ||||
Speaker | Notes | Constituency | Related peerage |
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John Smith | Died as an MP | Andover as Speaker | |
East Looe as MP | |||
Sir William Bromley | Died as an MP | Oxford University | |
Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bt. | Died as a commoner | Suffolk | |
Arthur Onslow | Died as a commoner | Surrey | |
Sir John Cust, Bt. | Died as an MP | Grantham | |
Charles Wolfran Cornwall | Died in Office | Rye | |
John Henry Whitley | Turned down Peerage | Halifax | |
Edward FitzRoy [9] | Died in Office | Daventry | His widow was created Viscountess Daventry in 1943. |
Sir Harry Hylton-Foster | Died in Office | Cities of London and Westminster | His widow was created Baroness Hylton-Foster for life in 1965. |
John Bercow | Currently living as a commoner | Buckingham | |
Viscount Palmerston was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. The title is derived from Palmerstown in Ireland, which was also known as Palmerston. The name is the origin of several place names in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and other former British possessions.. It was created on 12 March 1723 for Henry Temple, who subsequently represented East Grinstead, Bossiney and Weobley in the British House of Commons. He was made Baron Temple, of Mount Temple in the County of Sligo, at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his grandson, the 2nd Viscount, who represented seven constituencies in the House of Commons and served as a Lord of the Admiralty and Lord of the Treasury. On his death the titles passed to his son, the 3rd Viscount, who became a distinguished politician and served three times as Foreign Secretary and twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At his death in 1865 the 3rd Viscount was granted a state funeral, the fourth non-royal to be given this honour. Lord Palmerston was childless and the barony and viscountcy became extinct on his death.
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland until 1898
Earl of Carlisle is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England.
Marquess of Northampton is a title that has been created twice, firstly in the Peerage of England (1547), then secondly in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (1812). The current holder of this title is Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton.
Earl of Rosebery is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1703 for Archibald Primrose, 1st Viscount of Rosebery, with remainder to his issue male and female successively. Its name comes from Roseberry Topping, a hill near Archibald's wife's estates in Yorkshire. The current earl is Harry Primrose, 8th Earl of Rosebery.
Earl Waldegrave is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1729 for James Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Waldegrave.
Earl of Halifax is a title that has been created four times in British history—once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by writ.
Earl of Egmont was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1733 for John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval. It became extinct with the death of the twelfth earl in 2011.
Earl of Chichester is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The current title was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801 for Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baron Pelham of Stanmer.
Earl of Bessborough is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, who had previously represented Newtownards and County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons. In 1749, he was given the additional title of Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby, in the County of Leicester, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the British House of Lords. The titles Viscount Duncannon, of the fort of Duncannon in the County of Wexford, and Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown, in the County of Kilkenny, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1723 and 1721 respectively for Lord Bessborough's father William Ponsonby, who had earlier represented County Kilkenny in the Irish House of Commons.
Earl of Bradford is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created in 1694 for Francis Newport, 2nd Baron Newport. However, all the Newport titles became extinct on the death of the fourth Earl in 1762. The earldom was revived in 1815 for Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baron Bradford. The Bridgeman family had previously succeeded to the Newport estates. The title of the peerage refers to the ancient hundred of Bradford in Shropshire, and not, as might be assumed, to the city of Bradford, Yorkshire, or the town of Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire.
Viscount Massereene is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1660, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Loughneagh. From 1665 to 1816 the Skeffington Baronetcy of Fisherwick was attached to the viscountcy and from 1756 to 1816 the Viscounts also held the title of Earl of Massereene. Since 1843 the peerages are united with titles of Viscount Ferrard, of Oriel and Baron Oriel, both in the Peerage of Ireland, and Baron Oriel, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscount also holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Loughneagh (1660) and Baron Oriel (1790) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Oriel (1821) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As Baron Oriel, he sat in the House of Lords until 1999.
Baron O'Neill, of Shane's Castle in the County of Antrim, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1868 for the musical composer The Reverend William O'Neill. Born William Chichester, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin John Bruce Richard O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill, in 1855 and assumed by Royal licence the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Chichester in order to inherit the lands of his cousin, despite not being descended in the male line from an O'Neill. The Chichesters trace their lineage to the name O'Neill through Mary Chichester, daughter of Henry O'Neill of Shane's Castle. Lord O'Neill was the patrilineal great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall. The latter two were both nephews of Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, and grandsons of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester. Lord O'Neill was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Antrim.
Baron Brownlow, of Belton in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1776 for Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet. The Cust family descends from Richard Cust (1622–1700) of The Black Friars, Stamford, who represented Lincolnshire and Stamford in Parliament. In 1677 he was created a baronet, "of Stamford in the County of Lincoln". He was succeeded by his grandson Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet, who married Anne Brownlow, daughter of Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet, "of Humby", Lincolnshire, and sister and sole heiress of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, 5th Baronet of Belton House, Lincolnshire. The 2nd Baronet's son Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet, sat as a Member of Parliament for Grantham and served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1761 to 1770 and in 1754 inherited the Brownlow estates, including Belton, on the death of his childless maternal uncle Viscount Tyrconnel. His son Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet, represented Ilchester, Somerset, and Grantham in Parliament and in 1776 was raised to the peerage as Baron Brownlow, "of Belton in the County of Lincoln", chiefly in recognition of his father's services. He was succeeded by his son John Cust, 2nd Baron Brownlow, who had sat as a Member of Parliament for Clitheroe, Lancashire, and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire for many years. In 1815 he was created Viscount Alford, "in the County of Lincoln", and Earl Brownlow, both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In 1810 the future 1st Earl had married Sophia Hume, a daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, of Wormleybury, by his wife Lady Amelia Egerton, a great-granddaughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater.
Baron Abercromby, of Aboukir and Tullibody, was a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 May 1801 for Mary, Lady Abercromby, in honour of her husband, the noted military commander Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, who won the Battle of Aboukir in 1801 and later died from wounds at the Battle of Alexandria. The latter was the grandson of Alexander Abercromby, member of the Scottish Parliament for Clackmannanshire from 1703 to 1707, younger son of Sir Alexander Abercromby, 1st Baronet, of Birkenbog.
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister. With the exception of the Dukedom of Edinburgh awarded for life to Prince Edward in 2023, all life peerages conferred since 2009 have been created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 with the rank of baron and entitle their holders to sit and vote in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as age and citizenship. The legitimate children of a life peer appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958 are entitled to style themselves with the prefix "The Honourable", although they cannot inherit the peerage itself. Prior to 2009, life peers of baronial rank could also be so created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 for senior judges.
Marquess of Ripon, in the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1871 for the Liberal politician George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon.
Earl of Sussex is a title that has been created several times in the Peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The early Earls of Arundel were often also called Earls of Sussex.
There have been two baronetcies created for people with the surname Jenkinson, both in the Baronetage of England. The seventh holder of the first creation was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Liverpool in 1796, a title which became extinct in 1851.