List of marquesses in the peerages of Britain and Ireland


This is a list of the 34 present and extant marquesses in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922. Note that it does not mention any Marquessates held as a subsidiary title of a Duke. For a more complete listing, which adds these "hidden" Marquessates as well as extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, and forfeit ones, see List of Marquessates.
They were a relatively late introduction to the British peerage, and on the evening of the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne explained to her why :
"I spoke to Ld M. about the numbers of Peers present at the Coronation, & he said it was quite unprecedented. I observed that there were very few Viscounts, to which he replied "There are very few Viscounts," that they were an odd sort of title & not really English; that they came from Vice-Comites; that Dukes & Barons were the only real English titles; — that Marquises were likewise not English, & that people were mere made Marquises, when it was not wished that they should be made Dukes".

Order of precedence

The general order of precedence among Marquesses is:
  1. Marquesses in the Peerage of England
  2. Marquesses in the Peerage of Scotland
  3. Marquesses in the Peerage of Great Britain
  4. Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland created before 1801
  5. Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and Marquesses in the Peerage of Ireland created after 1801

    Marquesses in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

List of heirs of Marquesses in the Peerages of the British Isles

Heirs apparent

  1. Christopher Paulet, Earl of Wiltshire, eldest son of the Marquess of Winchester
  2. Alastair Gordon, Earl of Aboyne, only son of the Marquess of Huntly
  3. Sholto Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, eldest legitimate son of the Marquess of Queensberry
  4. Simon Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, elder son of the Marquess of Lansdowne
  5. Thomas Townshend, Viscount Raynham, only son of the Marquess Townshend
  6. John Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, elder son of the Marquess of Bath
  7. William Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth, elder son of the Marquess of Hertford
  8. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, only son of the Marquess of Bute
  9. Richard de la Poer Beresford, Earl of Tyrone, elder son of the Marquess of Waterford
  10. Edmund Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, only son of the Marquess of Downshire
  11. James Chichester, Earl of Belfast, only son of the Marquess of Donegall
  12. Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, elder son of the Marquess of Headfort
  13. Christopher Browne, Earl of Altamont, only son of the Marquess of Sligo
  14. Anthony Cecil, Lord Burghley, only son of the Marquess of Exeter
  15. Daniel Compton, Earl Compton, only son of the Marquess of Northampton
  16. James Pratt, Earl of Brecknock, elder son of the Marquess Camden
  17. Benedict Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, only son of the Marquess of Anglesey
  18. Alexander Cholmondeley, Earl of Rocksavage, elder son of the Marquess of Cholmondeley
  19. Alexander Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles, elder son of the Marquess Conyngham
  20. David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan, only son of the Marquess of Ailesbury
  21. Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis, only son of the Marquess of Ailsa
  22. John Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave, elder son of the Marquess of Normanby
  23. Robin Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay, elder son of the Marquess of Zetland
  24. Andrew Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, eldest son of the Marquess of Linlithgow
  25. Ivo Gordon, Earl of Haddo, eldest son of the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
  26. Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina, only son of the Marquess of Milford Haven
  27. Julian Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, only son of the Marquess of Reading

    Heirs presumptive

  28. Lord Anthony Hay is brother and heir-presumptive of the Marquess of Tweeddale
  29. Lord Ralph Kerr is brother and heir presumptive of the Marquess of Lothian
  30. Lord Timothy Tottenham is brother and heir-presumptive of the Marquess of Ely
  31. Lord Reginald Vane-Tempest-Stuart is brother and heir-presumptive of the Marquess of Londonderry
  32. Timothy Hervey is fourth cousin and heir-presumptive of the Marquess of Bristol

    Marquesses without heirs

  33. The Marquess of Abergavenny is without an heir.