George Armstrong Custer Posted 24 December , 2011 Share Posted 24 December , 2011 The death, with no eligible heir, of the Third Earl Kitchener of Khartoum brings to an end the peerage begun by his great uncle, Horatio Herbert Kitchener. Kitchener death George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 24 December , 2011 Share Posted 24 December , 2011 saw that in this morning's Tottygraph, George. Shame in a way, but there it is, I suppose. Nothing lasts forever. We'll always have the poster ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Armstrong Custer Posted 24 December , 2011 Author Share Posted 24 December , 2011 As you say, Steve, it's the way the cookie crumbles. Coincidentally, it looks as if the current Earl Haig of Bemersyde, also the third of the line, will be the last to hold that title, too. I wonder if the forthcoming monarchical changes, which will see a first born female royal given precedence in the succession, will have a knock-on effect in the peerage, and allow such titles to survive as a matter of course through the female line without recourse to special dispensation. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 25 December , 2011 Share Posted 25 December , 2011 Personally, I see no good reason why femal inheritance should be a problem in this day and age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 26 December , 2011 Share Posted 26 December , 2011 Can't be many of the WW1 titles left now. French's Ypres and Byng's Vimy titles have become extinct. Any others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 26 December , 2011 Share Posted 26 December , 2011 Personally, I see no good reason why female inheritance should be a problem in this day and age. If it had been in force in 1901, Queen Victoria would have been succeeded by her eldest grandchild, as King William V (II of Germany) and there might not have been a war in 1914. Not against Germany, anyway: I think France might have been the one fighting a two-front war! (Victoria's eldest child, Vicky aka Empress Frederick, died in 1900.) Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonharley Posted 26 December , 2011 Share Posted 26 December , 2011 Of the peerages for war services, those of Jellicoe, Beatty, and Allenby are still on the trot. Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 26 December , 2011 Share Posted 26 December , 2011 I think the whole issue of peerages and unelected peers, heriditary or not having a say in our legislatation is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonharley Posted 27 December , 2011 Share Posted 27 December , 2011 One less rival for me then when I seek my peerage. Excellent. It's interesting how many of the various peerages died out pretty much straight away - Horne, Rawlinson, Byng, amongst others. I know that the military careers of the British generals has been covered to some extent in recent scholarship, but what of the social dimension? Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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