A directory of British peerages: From the earliest times to the present day

This book identifies all past and present holders of British peerages--Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons--and is the first such work to be arranged in one continuous alphabetical sequence by both titles and surnames. So, it is a quick and convenient means of discovering whether or when a peerage existed, the surname of the individual who held or continues to hold it, his rank and nationality, and the approximate period of the peerage's tenure and its final fate, if no longer extant.