पीरेज (en. Peerage)

The former CEO, the Reverend Stephen Green - yes, a banker in holy orders - was rewarded with a peerage.

The untimely death of Richard Burke was a most grievious personal blow to his father and also rendered this bestowal of a peerage impractical.

The rule stated by Tindal, C.J. in Sussex Peerage case, (1844) 11 Cl and F 85, still holds the field.

Olivier's honours included a knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970) and the Order of Merit (1981).

Her husband, Waldolf Astor, was sitting MP for Plymouth Sutton, and when he succeeded to the peerage and took his place in the House of Lords, the Conservative Party elected Lady Astor in his stead.

When Margaret became pregnant that fall, Tony was elevated to the peerage.

None of the news stories claimed in the article exist in the archives of the London papers, and there is no record of such an Earl in the British peerage.