Though the Lords temporal – royal peers, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons – were allotted certain benches according to their rank, they only sat thus during the opening of Parliament. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The rule is that the daughters of dukes, marquesses and earls are styled "Lady Given-Name Surname" and the sons of dukes and marquesses are styled "Lord," using the same formula. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)
Much later the daughters of dukes and marquesses were allowed the honorary title of 'Lady'. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At the top were dukes and then marquesses, earls, viscounts and lords. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But Martin was not quite so glad of this, when he found that they knew all the great dukes, lords, viscounts, marquesses, duchesses, knights, and baronets, quite affectionately, and were beyond everything interested in the least particular concerning them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Other people came in, marquesses, counts or princes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But the little brown marquesses and counts had no eye for these things. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
'But being the old tyrant that seventy-year-old marquesses have every right to be, "he said," I hereby forbid anyone in this room to divulge the news to anyone outside this room. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1991)
Earls and dukes and marquesses were supposed to stay that way. ❋ Grimes, Martha (1985)
We don't need counts, marquesses and millionaires to tell us what to do in the field of sports. ❋ Unknown (1985)
Three dukes, two marquesses, three earls, and two lords were his pallbearers; ninety-one car - riages, conveying all the members of the Royal Acad - emy and scores of distinguished luminaries followed the body to its resting place in St. Paul's Cathedral. ❋ RUDOLF WITTKOWER (1968)
"But the other bishops have place above all the barons of the realm, because they hold their bishopricks of the king per baroniam; but they give place to viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes." ❋ Various (N/A)
Nathaniel (_c. _ 1550-1622) and Edward (_c. _ 1550-1618), also took some part in public life, and through his daughter, Anne, Nathaniel was an ancestor of the marquesses Townshend. ❋ Various (N/A)
Walter, who added the name of Butler to his own; it then became the surname of his descendants, the earls, dukes and marquesses of Ormonde (see BUTLER, family, above). ❋ Various (N/A)
We have earls, we have marquesses, coming forward as Corn-League agents; we have magistrates by scores angling for popularity as Repealers. ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1827, the number of the Irish nobility was 212 -- viz. 1 duke, 14 marquesses, 76 earls, 48 viscounts, 70 barons, and 4 peeresses. ❋ Various (N/A)
His eldest son, Henry, succeeded him in the marquessate; but the title passed rapidly in succession to the 3rd, 4th and 5th marquesses. ❋ Various (N/A)
The marquesses and dukes, and lastly the great officers of state, archbishops, and members of the royal family, entered. ❋ Giles Gossip (N/A)
The marquesses and some of the earls on the left side, formed a line with those who had descended to the floor of the Hall. ❋ Giles Gossip (N/A)
But the world is not made up of courts or palaces, of kings or princes, of dukes or marquesses. ❋ Various (N/A)
