Earl Peel

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Coat of arms of the Earls Peel

Earl Peel is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

The Earls' family seat is Kilgram Grange in Jervaulx near Ripon in North Yorkshire .

Award

The title was created on July 10, 1929 for William Wellesley Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel , who had been Secretary of State for India and Lord Seal Keeper , among other things . His father, a son of the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet , had been promoted to Viscount Peel in 1895 after having been Speaker of the House of Commons for more than ten years .

Subordinate title

Along with the earl dignity, the subordinate title Viscount Clanfield , of Clanfield in the County of Southampton , was bestowed on the first earl . Other subordinate titles of the Earldom are the title Viscount Peel , of Sandy in the County of Bedford , awarded on May 9, 1895 , which the first Earl inherited from his father in 1912, and the title awarded on November 29, 1800 since the 2nd Earl Peel Baronet , of Drayton Manor in the County of Stafford and of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster , which the 2nd Earl inherited from a third uncle in 1942. The two Viscount dignities belong to the Peerage of the United Kingdom, the Baronetcy to the Baronetage of Great Britain.

The eldest son of the respective earl carries the courtesy title Viscount Clanfield as heir apparent .

List of Viscounts and Earls Peel and Peel Baronets

Viscounts Peel (1895)

Earls Peel (1929)

Heir to the title is the current earl's only son, Ashton Robert Gerard Peel, Viscount Clanfield (* 1976).

Peel Baronets, of Drayton Manor (1800)

the title of baronet then passed to the 2nd Earl Peel (see above) as the 7th baronet

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