PEERAGES
Last updated 05/06/2018 (8 Apr 2024)
Date	Rank	Order	Name	Born	Died	Age
HOWARD DE WALDEN
1597	B	1	Lord Thomas Howard Summoned to Parliament as Lord Howard de Walden 1597 Subsequently created Earl of Suffolk	24 Aug 1541	28 May 1626	84
8 Feb 1610 28 May 1626		2	Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of Acceleration as Baron Howard de Walden 8 Feb 1610	13 Aug 1584	3 Jun 1640	55
3 Jun 1640 to     17 Jan 1689		3	James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk On his death the barony fell into abeyance	23 Dec 1619	17 Jan 1689	69
3 Aug 1784 to     25 May 1797		4	John Griffin Griffin Abeyance terminated in his favour MP for Andover 1749‑1784 Created Baron Braybrooke 5 Sep 1788 On his death the barony again fell into abeyance	13 Mar 1719	25 May 1797	78
17 Nov 1799		5	Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol Became sole heir in 1799	1 Aug 1730	8 Jul 1803	72
8 Jul 1803		6	Charles Augustus Ellis He subsequently [1845] succeeded as 2nd Baron Seaford	5 Jun 1799	29 Aug 1868	69
29 Aug 1868		7	Frederick George Ellis (also 3rd Baron Seaford)	9 Aug 1830	3 Nov 1899	69
3 Nov 1899		8	Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis (also 4th Baron Seaford)	9 May 1880	5 Nov 1946	66
5 Nov 1946 to     9 Jul 1999		9	John Osmael Scott-Ellis (also 5th Baron Seaford) On his death the barony again fell into abeyance	27 Nov 1912	9 Jul 1999	86
25 Jun 2004		10	(Mary) Hazel Caridwen Czernin Abeyance terminated in her favour	12 Aug 1935
HOWARTH OF BRECKLAND
25 Jun 2001	B[L]		Valerie Georgina Howarth Created Baroness Howarth of Breckland for life 25 Jun 2001	5 Sep 1940
HOWARTH OF NEWPORT
15 Jun 2005	B[L]		Alan Thomas Howarth Created Baron Howarth of Newport for life 15 Jun 2005 MP for Stratford upon Avon 1983‑1997 and Newport East 1997‑2005; PC 2000	11 Jun 1944
HOWDEN
19 Oct 1819 10 Sep 1831	B[I] B	1 1	John Francis Cradock (Caradoc from 19 Dec 1831) Created Baron Howden [I] 19 Oct 1819 and Baron Howden [UK] 10 Sep 1831 Governor of the Cape of Good Hope 1811‑1812	11 Aug 1759	26 Jul 1839	79
26 Jul 1839 to     9 Oct 1873		2	John Hobart Caradoc MP for Dundalk 1830‑1831 Peerages extinct on his death	16 Oct 1799	9 Oct 1873	73
HOWE (Ireland)
16 May 1701	V[I]	1	Scrope Howe Created Baron Glenawley and Viscount Howe 16 May 1701 MP for Nottinghamshire 1673‑1681, 1689‑1698 and 1710‑1713	Nov 1648	26 Jan 1713	64
26 Jan 1713		2	Emanuel Scrope Howe MP for Nottinghamshire 1722‑1732; Governor of Barbados 1732‑1735	c 1699	29 Mar 1735
29 Mar 1735		3	George Augustus Howe MP for Nottingham 1747‑1758	c 1724	6 Jul 1758
6 Jul 1758		4	Richard Howe Created Earl Howe 1788 (see below)	19 Mar 1726	5 Aug 1799	73
5 Aug 1799 to     12 Jul 1814		5	William Howe MP for Nottingham 1758‑1780; PC 1782 Peerages extinct on his death	10 Aug 1729	12 Jul 1814	84
HOWE
20 Apr 1782 19 Apr 1788 to     5 Aug 1799	V B E	1 1 1	Richard Howe, 4th Viscount Howe [I] Created Viscount Howe 20 Apr 1782, Baron Howe and Earl Howe 19 Apr 1788 MP for Dartmouth 1757‑1782; First Lord of the Admiralty 1783 and 1783‑1788; PC 1765; KG 1797 For details of the special remainder included in the creation of the Barony of 1788, see the note at the foot of this page On his death the Viscountcy and Earldom became extinct, the Irish Viscountcy passed to his brother (see above) and the Barony passed to -	19 Mar 1726	5 Aug 1799	73
5 Aug 1799		2	Sophia Charlotte Curzon	19 Feb 1762	3 Dec 1835	73
16 Jul 1821 3 Dec 1835	E	1 3	Richard William Curzon‑Howe Created Earl Howe 16 Jul 1821 PC 1831	11 Dec 1796	12 May 1870	73
12 May 1870		2	George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon‑Howe MP for Leicestershire South 1857‑1870	16 Jan 1821	4 Feb 1876	55
4 Feb 1876		3	Richard William Penn Curzon‑Howe Lord Lieutenant Leicestershire 1888‑1900	14 Feb 1822	25 Sep 1900	78
25 Sep 1900		4	Richard George Penn Curzon MP for Wycombe 1885‑1900	28 Apr 1861	10 Jan 1929	67
10 Jan 1929		5	Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon MP for Battersea South 1918‑1929; PC 1929	1 May 1884	26 Jul 1964	80
26 Jul 1964		6	Edward Richard Assheton Curzon	7 Aug 1908	29 May 1984	75
29 May 1984		7	Frederick Richard Penn Curzon PC 2013 [Elected hereditary peer 1999-]	29 Jan 1951
HOWE OF ABERAVON
30 Jun 1992 to     9 Oct 2015	B[L]		Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe Created Baron Howe of Aberavon for life 30 Jun 1992 MP for Bebington 1964‑1966, Reigate 1970‑1974 and Surrey East 1974‑1992; Solicitor General 1970‑1972; Minister for Trade & Consumer Affairs 1972‑1974; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1979‑1983; Foreign Secretary 1983‑1989; Lord President of the Council 1989‑1990; PC 1972; CH 1996 Peerage extinct on his death	20 Dec 1926	9 Oct 2015	88
HOWE OF IDLICOTE
29 Jun 2001 to     22 Mar 2022	B[L]		Elspeth Rosamond Morton Howe Created Baroness Howe of Idlicote for life 29 Jun 2001 Wife of Baron Howe of Aberavon Peerage extinct on her death	8 Feb 1932	22 Mar 2022	90
HOWELL
2 Jul 1992 to     19 Apr 1998	B[L]		Denis Herbert Howell Created Baron Howell for life 2 Jul 1992 MP for All Saints 1955‑1959 and Small Heath 1961‑1992; Minister of State, Housing & Local Government 1969‑1970; Minister of State, Environment 1974‑1979; PC 1976 Peerage extinct on his death	4 Sep 1923	19 Apr 1998	74
HOWELL OF GUILDFORD
6 Jun 1997	B[L]		David Arthur Russell Howell Created Baron Howell of Guildford for life 6 Jun 1997 MP for Guildford 1966‑1997; Minister of State, Northern Ireland 1972‑1974; Minister of State, Energy 1974; Minister of Energy 1979‑1981; Minister of Transport 1981‑1983; PC 1979	18 Jan 1936
HOWELLS OF St. DAVIDS
21 Jul 1999	B[L]		Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells Created Baroness Howells of St. Davids for life 21 Jul 1999	10 Jan 1931
HOWICK
11 Apr 1806	V	1	Charles Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Howick Created Viscount Howick and Earl Grey 11 Apr 1806 See "Grey"	23 Oct 1729	14 Nov 1807	78
HOWICK OF GLENDALE
8 Feb 1960	B	1	Sir Evelyn Baring Created Baron Howick of Glendale 8 Feb 1960 Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1942‑1944 and Kenya 1952‑1959; KG 1972	29 Sep 1903	10 Mar 1973	69
10 Mar 1973		2	Charles Evelyn Baring	30 Dec 1937
HOWIE OF TROON
21 Apr 1978 to     26 May 2018	B[L]		William Howie Created Baron Howie of Troon for life 21 Apr 1978 MP for Luton 1963‑1970 Peerage extinct on his death	2 Mar 1924	26 May 2018	94
HOWLAND OF STREATHAM
13 Jun 1695	B	1	William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford Created Baron Howland of Streatham 13 Jun 1695 See "Bedford"	1613	7 Sep 1700	87
15 Jan 1833			Francis Russell He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of Acceleration as Baron Howland of Streatham 15 Jan 1833 He succeeded to the Dukedom of Bedford in 1839	13 May 1788	14 May 1861	73
HOWTH
c 1425	B[I]	1	Christopher St. Lawrence Created Baron Howth c 1425		1430
1430		2	Christopher St. Lawrence		c 1465
c 1465		3	Robert St. Lawrence		c 1485
c 1485		4	Nicholas St. Lawrence		10 Jul 1526
10 Jul 1526		5	Christopher St. Lawrence		20 Apr 1542
20 Apr 1542		6	Edward St. Lawrence	1508	2 Jul 1549	41
2 Jul 1549		7	Richard St. Lawrence		1558
1558		8	Christopher St. Lawrence		24 Oct 1589
24 Oct 1589		9	Nicholas St. Lawrence	1555	14 May 1606	50
14 May 1606		10	Christopher St. Lawrence		24 Oct 1619
24 Oct 1619		11	Nicholas St. Lawrence	1597	1643	46
1643		12	William St. Lawrence		17 Jun 1671
17 Jun 1671		13	Thomas St. Lawrence	1659	30 May 1727	67
30 May 1727		14	William St. Lawrence MP [I] for Ratoath 1716‑1727; PC [I] 1729	11 Jan 1688	4 Apr 1748	60
4 Apr 1748 3 Sep 1767	E[I]	15 1	Thomas St. Lawrence Created Viscount St. Lawrence and Earl of Howth 3 Sep 1767 PC [I] 1768	10 May 1730	29 Sep 1801	71
29 Sep 1801		2	William St. Lawrence	4 Oct 1752	4 Apr 1822	69
4 Apr 1822		3	Thomas St. Lawrence Lord Lieutenant Dublin 1851‑1874; KP 1835	16 Aug 1803	4 Feb 1874	70
4 Feb 1874 7 Oct 1881 to     9 Mar 1909	B	4 1	William Ulick Tristram St. Lawrence Created Baron Howth 7 Oct 1881 MP for Galway 1868‑1874; KP 1884 Peerages extinct on his death For a number of anecdotes regarding this peerage, see the note at the foot of this page	25 Jun 1827	9 Mar 1909	81
HOY
4 Jul 1970 to     7 Aug 1976	B[L]		James Hutchison Hoy Created Baron Hoy for life 4 Jul 1970 MP for Leith 1945‑1970; PC 1969 Peerage extinct on his death	21 Jan 1909	7 Aug 1976	67
HOYLE
14 May 1997	B[L]		(Eric) Douglas Harvey Hoyle Created Baron Hoyle for life 14 May 1997 MP for Nelson & Colne 1974‑1979, Warrington 1981‑1983 and Warrington North 1983‑1997 Peerage extinct on his death	17 Feb 1926	6 Apr 2024	98
HUDSON
5 Jan 1952	V	1	Robert Spear Hudson Created Viscount Hudson 5 Jan 1952 MP for Whitehaven 1924‑1929 and Southport 1931‑1952; Minister of Shipping 1940; Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries 1940‑1945; PC 1938; CH 1944	15 Aug 1886	2 Feb 1957	70
2 Feb 1957 to     28 Aug 1963		2	Robert William Hudson Peerage extinct on his death	28 Apr 1924	28 Aug 1963	39
HUGHENDEN
21 Aug 1876 to     19 Apr 1881	E	1	Benjamin D'Israeli Created Viscount Hughenden and Earl of Beaconsfield 21 Aug 1876 See "Beaconsfield"	21 Dec 1804	19 Apr 1881	76
HUGHES
7 Feb 1961 to     31 Dec 1999	B[L]		William Hughes Created Baron Hughes for life 7 Feb 1961 Lord Lieutenant Dundee 1954‑1960; PC 1970 Peerage extinct on his death	22 Jan 1911	31 Dec 1999	88
HUGHES OF STRETFORD
15 Jul 2010	B[L]		Beverley June Hughes Created Baroness Hughes of Stretford for life 15 Jul 2010 MP for Stretford & Urmston 1997‑2010; PC 2004	30 Mar 1950
HUGHES OF WOODSIDE
27 Sep 1997 to     7 Jan 2022	B[L]		Robert Hughes Created Baron Hughes of Woodside for life 27 Sep 1997 MP for Aberdeen North 1970‑1997 Peerage extinct on his death	3 Jan 1932	7 Jan 2022	90
HUME OF BERWICK
7 Jul 1604 to     29 Jan 1612	B[S]	1	George Howme Created Hume of Berwick 7 Jul 1604 and Earl of Dunbar 3 Jul 1605 KG 1608 On his death the peerages became dormant		29 Jan 1612
20 May 1776 to     9 Mar 1781	B	1	Alexander Hume-Campbell Created Baron Hume of Berwick 20 May 1776 Peerage extinct on his death	30 Jul 1750	9 Mar 1781	30
HUMPHREYS
18 Sep 2013	B[L]		Christine Mary Humphreys Created Baroness Humphreys for life 18 Sep 2013	26 May 1947
HUNGARTON
7 Feb 1951 to     14 Jun 1966	B	1	Archibald Crawford Created Baron Hungarton 7 Feb 1951 Peerage extinct on his death	12 Sep 1890	14 Jun 1966	75
HUNGERFORD
7 Jan 1426	B	1	Walter Hungerford Summoned to Parliament as Lord Hungerford 7 Jan 1426 MP for Wiltshire 1400‑1407 and 1413; Speaker of the House 1414; Lord High Treasurer 1425‑1431; KG 1421	22 Jun 1378	9 Aug 1449	71
9 Aug 1449		2	Robert Hungerford	c 1400	14 May 1459
14 May 1459 to     1461		3	Robert Hungerford, 1st Lord Moleyns He was attainted and the peerage forfeited	c 1420	18 May 1464
1485		4	Mary Hastings Attainder reversed 1485	c 1466	c 1530
c 1530		5	George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon	1488	24 Mar 1545	56
24 Mar 1545		6	Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon	c 1514	20 Jun 1561
20 Jun 1561		7	Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon	c 1536	14 Dec 1595
14 Dec 1595		8	George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon	c 1540	31 Dec 1604
31 Dec 1604		9	Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon	24 Apr 1586	14 Nov 1643	57
14 Nov 1643		10	Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon	18 Jan 1608	13 Feb 1656	48
13 Feb 1656		11	Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon	10 Dec 1650	30 May 1701	50
30 May 1701		12	George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon	22 Mar 1677	22 Feb 1705	27
22 Feb 1705		13	Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon	12 Nov 1696	13 Oct 1746	49
13 Oct 1746		14	Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon	13 Mar 1729	2 Oct 1789	60
2 Oct 1789		15	Elizabeth Rawdon	23 Mar 1731	11 Apr 1808	77
11 Apr 1808		16	Francis Rawdon-Hastings, later [1817] 1st Marquess of Hastings	9 Dec 1754	28 Nov 1826	71
28 Nov 1826		17	George Augustus Francis Rawdon‑Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings	4 Feb 1808	13 Jan 1844	35
13 Jan 1844		18	Paulyn Reginald Serlo Rawdon‑Hastings, 3rd Marquess of Hastings	2 Jun 1832	17 Jan 1851	18
17 Jan 1851 to     10 Nov 1868		19	Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon‑Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings On his death the peerage fell into abeyance	22 Jul 1842	10 Nov 1868	26
6 Nov 1871		20	Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun (in her own right) Abeyance terminated in her favour	10 Dec 1833	23 Jan 1874	40
23 Jan 1874 to     17 May 1920		21	Charles Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun On his death the peerage again fell into abeyance	5 Jan 1855	17 May 1920	65
23 Feb 1921		22	Elizabeth Frances Philipps Abeyance terminated in her favour 1921	19 Jun 1884	12 Dec 1974	90
12 Dec 1974		22	Jestyn Reginald Austen Plantagenet Philipps, 2nd Viscount St. Davids	19 Feb 1917	10 Jun 1991	74
10 Jun 1991		23	Colwyn Jestyn John Philipps, 3rd Viscount St. Davids	20 Jan 1939	26 Apr 2009	70
26 Apr 2009		24	Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 4th Viscount St. Davids	16 Sep 1966
HUNGERFORD DE HEYTESBURY
8 Jun 1526 to     28 Jul 1540	B	1	Walter Hungerford Summoned to Parliament as Lord Hungerford de Heytesbury 8 Jun 1526 He was attainted and the peerage forfeited	c 1502	28 Jul 1540
HUNSDON
13 Jan 1559	B	1	Henry Carey Created Baron Hunsdon 13 Jan 1559 MP for Buckingham 1547‑1555; KG 1561	4 Mar 1526	23 Jul 1596	70
23 Jul 1596		2	George Carey MP for Hertfordshire 1571 and Hampshire 1584‑1593; KG 1597	c 1556	9 Sep 1603
9 Sep 1603		3	John Carey MP for Buckingham 1585‑1593	1563	7 Apr 1617	53
7 Apr 1617		4	Henry Carey Created Viscount Rochford 6 Jul 1621 and Earl of Dover 8 Mar 1628	c 1580	13 Apr 1666
27 Nov 1640 13 Apr 1666	B	1 5	John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of Acceleration as Baron Hunsdon 27 Nov 1640	c 1608	26 May 1677
26 May 1677		6	Robert Carey		1692
1692		7	Robert Carey		11 Sep 1702
11 Sep 1702 to     12 Jun 1765		8	William Ferdinand Carey Peerage extinct on his death	14 Jan 1684	12 Jun 1765	81
HUNSDON OF HUNSDON
24 Jul 1923	B	1	Herbert Cokayne Gibbs Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 Jul 1923	14 May 1854	22 May 1935	81
22 May 1935		2	Walter Durant Gibbs He succeeded to the Barony of Aldenham in 1939 with which title this peerage then became united and so remains	11 Aug 1888	30 May 1969	80
HUNSDON OF SCUTTERSKELFE
15 May 1832 to     12 Mar 1884	B	1	Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland Created Baron Hunsdon of Scutterskelfe 15 May 1832 Peerage extinct on his death	5 Nov 1803	12 Mar 1884	80
HUNT
4 Jul 1966 to     8 Nov 1998	B[L]		Sir (Henry Cecil) John Hunt Created Baron Hunt for life 4 Jul 1966 KG 1979 Peerage extinct on his death	22 Jun 1910	8 Nov 1998	88
HUNT OF BETHNAL GREEN
16 Oct 2019	B[L]		Ruth Elizabeth Hunt Created Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green for life 16 Oct 2019	12 Mar 1980
HUNT OF CHESTERTON
5 May 2000	B[L]		Julian Charles Roland Hunt Created Baron Hunt of Chesterton for life 5 May 2000	5 Sep 1941
HUNT OF FAWLEY
25 Jun 1973 to     28 Dec 1987	B[L]		John Henderson Hunt Created Baron Hunt of Fawley for life 25 Jun 1973 Peerage extinct on his death	3 Jul 1905	28 Dec 1987	82
HUNT OF KINGS HEATH
20 Oct 1997	B[L]		Philip Alexander Hunt Created Baron Hunt of Kings Heath for life 20 Oct 1997 Minister of State, Health 2007; Minister of State Environment, Food & Rural Affairs 2008‑2009; Minister of State, Energy & Climate Change 2008‑2010; PC 2009	19 May 1949
HUNT OF TANWORTH
8 Feb 1980 to     17 Jul 2008	B[L]		Sir John Joseph Benedict Hunt Created Baron Hunt of Tanworth for life 8 Feb 1980 Peerage extinct on his death	23 Oct 1919	17 Jul 2008	88
HUNT OF WIRRAL
20 Oct 1997	B[L]		David James Fletcher Hunt Created Baron Hunt of Wirral for life 20 Oct 1997 MP for Wirral 1976‑1983 and Wirral West 1983‑1997; PC 1990	21 May 1942
HUNTER OF NEWINGTON
17 Jul 1978 to     24 Mar 1994	B[L]		Sir Robert Brockie Hunter Created Baron Hunter of Newington for life 17 Jul 1978 Peerage extinct on his death	14 Jul 1915	24 Mar 1994	78
HUNTERCOMBE
23 Jun 1295 to     1313	B	1	Walter de Huntercombe Summoned to Parliament as Lord Huntercombe 23 Jun 1295 Peerage extinct on his death		1313
HUNTINGDON
1072 to     31 May 1075	E	1	Waltheof Created Earl of Huntingdon 1072 He was executed and the peerage reverted to the Crown	c 1045	31 May 1075
c 1080 to     c 1109	E	1	Simon Senlis Created Earl of Huntingdon c 1080 On his death the peerage reverted to the Crown		c 1109
c 1111	E	1	David of Scotland Recognized as Earl of Huntingdon c 1111 Sixth son of Malcolm III of Scotland Succeeded to the throne of Scotland 1124. He resigned the peerage in favour of -		24 May 1153
1136 to     12 Jun 1152		2	Henry of Scotland On his death the peerage reverted to the Crown	1110	12 Jun 1152	41
1152 to     Aug 1153	E	1	Simon Senlis Recognized as Earl of Huntingdon 1152 On his death the peerage reverted to the Crown		Aug 1153
1157	E	1	Malcolm, King of Scotland Created Earl of Huntingdon 1157	c 1140	9 Dec 1165
9 Dec 1165 to     1174		2	William, King of Scotland He was deprived of the peerage in 1174	1141	4 Dec 1214	73
Jul 1174 to     1184	E	1	Simon Senlis Recognized as Earl of Huntingdon Jul 1174 On his death the peerage reverted to the Crown	c 1138	1184
1184	E	1	David of Scotland Recognized as Earl of Huntingdon 1184		12 Jun 1219
12 Jun 1219 to     7 Jun 1237		2	John le Scot Peerage extinct on his death		7 Jun 1237
16 Mar 1337 to     31 Aug 1354	E	1	William Clinton, Lord Clinton Created Earl of Huntingdon 16 Mar 1337 Warden of the Cinque Ports 1330 Peerage extinct on his death	c 1304	31 Aug 1354
16 Jul 1377 to     Mar 1380	E[L]		Guichard d'Angle Created Earl of Huntingdon for life 16 Jul 1377 KG 1372 Peerage extinct on his death		Mar 1380
2 Jun 1387 to     15 Jan 1400	E	1	John Holand Created Earl of Huntingdon 2 Jun 1387 Subsequently created Duke of Exeter in 1397. He was attainted and the peerages forfeited	c 1355	15 Jan 1400
1417		2	John Holand Restored to the peerage 1417 Created Duke of Exeter 6 Jan 1443	1394	5 Aug 1447	53
5 Aug 1447 to     1461		3	Henry Holand, 3rd Duke of Exeter He was attainted and the peerages forfeited	1430	1473	43
14 Aug 1471 to     1475	E	1	Thomas Grey, 8th Lord Ferrers de Groby Created Earl of Huntingdon 14 Aug 1471 He resigned the peerage in 1475	1451	30 Aug 1501	50
4 Jul 1479 to     16 Jul 1491	E	1	William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke Created Earl of Huntingdon 4 Jul 1479 Peerage extinct on his death	5 Mar 1461	16 Jul 1491	30
7 Dec 1529	E	1	George Hastings, 3rd Lord Hastings Created Earl of Huntingdon 8 Dec 1529	1488	24 Mar 1545	56
24 Mar 1545		2	Francis Hastings KG 1549	c 1514	20 Jun 1561
20 Jun 1561		3	Henry Hastings He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of Acceleration as Baron Hastings 23 Jan 1559 KG 1570	c 1536	14 Dec 1595
14 Dec 1595		4	George Hastings MP for Derbyshire 1562 and Leicestershire 1585‑1587; Lord Lieutenant Leicester and Rutland 1596	c 1540	31 Dec 1604
31 Dec 1604		5	Henry Hastings Lord Lieutenant Leicester 1607‑1642 and Rutland 1614‑1642	24 Apr 1586	14 Nov 1643	57
14 Nov 1643		6	Ferdinando Hastings MP for Leicestershire 1625 and 1628 He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of Acceleration as Baron Hastings 3 Nov 1640	18 Jan 1608	13 Feb 1656	48
13 Feb 1656		7	Theophilus Hastings Lord Lieutenant Leicester and Derby 1687‑1689; PC 1683	10 Dec 1650	30 May 1701	50
30 May 1701		8	George Hastings	22 Mar 1677	22 Feb 1705	27
22 Feb 1705		9	Theophilus Hastings For information on this peer's wife, see the note at the foot of this page	12 Nov 1696	13 Oct 1746	49
13 Oct 1746		10	Francis Hastings Lord Lieutenant West Riding Yorkshire 1763‑1765; PC 1760	13 Mar 1729	2 Oct 1789	60
2 Oct 1789		11	Theophilus Henry Hastings	7 Oct 1728	2 Apr 1804	75
2 Apr 1804		12	Hans Francis Hastings Governor of Dominica 1822‑1824 For further information on the Huntingdon peerage claim of 1818‑1819, see the note at the foot of this page	14 Aug 1779	9 Dec 1828	49
9 Dec 1828		13	Francis Theophilus Henry Hastings	31 Jul 1808	13 Sep 1875	67
13 Sep 1875		14	Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings	4 Dec 1841	20 May 1885	43
20 May 1885		15	Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings	8 Jul 1868	5 Apr 1939	70
5 Apr 1939		16	Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings	30 Jan 1901	24 Aug 1990	89
24 Aug 1990		17	William Edward Robin Hood Hastings Bass	30 Jan 1948
HUNTINGFIELD
15 Nov 1351 to     Nov 1376	B	1	William de Huntingfield Summoned to Parliament as Lord Huntingfield 15 Nov 1351 On his death the peerage either became extinct or fell into abeyance	1329	Nov 1376	47
14 Aug 1362 to     after 1362	B	1	John de Huntingfield Summoned to Parliament as Lord Huntingfield 14 Aug 1362 Nothing further is known of this peerage
7 Jul 1796	B[I]	1	Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd baronet Created Baron Huntingfield 7 Jul 1796 MP for Dunwich 1790‑1816	31 Dec 1745	15 Aug 1816	70
15 Aug 1816		2	Joshua Vanneck MP for Dunwich 1816‑1819	12 Aug 1778	10 Aug 1844	65
10 Aug 1844		3	Charles Andrew Vanneck	12 Jan 1818	21 Sep 1897	79
21 Sep 1897		4	Joshua Charles Vanneck	27 Aug 1842	13 Jan 1915	72
13 Jan 1915		5	William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck MP for Eye 1923‑1929; Governor of Victoria 1934‑1939	3 Jan 1883	20 Nov 1969	86
20 Nov 1969		6	Gerald Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck	29 May 1915	1 May 1994	78
1 May 1994		7	Joshua Charles Vanneck	10 Aug 1954
HUNTINGTOWER
3 Aug 1643	B[S]	1	William Murray Created Lord Huntingtower and Earl of Dysart 3 Aug 1643 See "Dysart"		22 May 1651
HUNTLY
c 1445	E[S]	1	Alexander Gordon, 2nd Lord Gordon Created Earl of Huntly c 1445		15 Jul 1470
15 Jul 1470		2	George Gordon Lord Chancellor of Scotland 1498‑1501		Jun 1502
Jun 1502		3	Alexander Gordon	c 1460	21 Jan 1524
21 Jan 1524 to     28 Oct 1562		4	George Gordon He was attainted and the peerage forfeited	1513	28 Oct 1562	49
28 Aug 1565		5	George Gordon Restored to the peerage 1565		May 1576
May 1576		6	George Gordon Created Lord Gordon of Badenoch, Earl of Enzie and Marquess of Huntly 17 Apr 1599	c 1563	13 Jun 1636
13 Jun 1636		2	George Gordon Created Viscount Aboyne 20 Apr 1632 On his death the Viscountcy of Aboyne passed, by special remainder, to his second son, James - see "Aboyne"		22 Mar 1649
22 Mar 1649		3	Lewis Gordon		Dec 1653
Dec 1653 3 Nov 1684	M[S]	4 1	George Gordon Created Lord Badenoch, Lochaber, Strathavon, Balmore, Auchindoun, Garthie and Kincardine, Viscount of Inverness, Earl of Huntly and Enzie, Marquess of Huntly and Duke of Gordon 3 Nov 1684	c 1643	7 Dec 1716
7 Dec 1716		5 2	Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon	c 1678	28 Nov 1728
28 Nov 1728		6 3	Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon	c 1721	5 Aug 1752
5 Aug 1752		7 4	Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon	18 Jun 1743	17 Jun 1827	83
17 Jun 1827		8 5	George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon On his death the Earldom and Marquessate of 1684 became extinct whilst the Earldom of c 1445 and the Marquessate of 1599 passed to -	2 Feb 1770	28 May 1836	66
28 May 1836		9	George Gordon, 5th Earl of Aboyne Created Baron Meldrum 11 Aug 1815 KT 1827	28 Jun 1761	17 Jun 1853	91
17 Jun 1853		10	Charles Gordon MP for East Grinstead 1818‑1830 and Huntingdonshire 1830‑1831; Lord Lieutenant Aberdeen 1861‑1863	4 Jan 1792	18 Sep 1863	71
18 Sep 1863		11	Charles Gordon PC 1881	5 Mar 1847	20 Feb 1937	89
20 Feb 1937		12	Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon	3 Feb 1908	26 Jan 1987	78
26 Jan 1987		13	Granville Charles Gomer Gordon	4 Feb 1944
HURCOMB
5 Jul 1950 to     7 Aug 1975	B	1	Sir Cyril William Hurcomb Created Baron Hurcomb 5 Jul 1950 Peerage extinct on his death	18 Feb 1883	7 Aug 1975	92
HURD
24 Aug 1964 to     12 Feb 1966	B[L]		Sir Anthony Richard Hurd Created Baron Hurd for life 24 Aug 1964 MP for Newbury 1945‑1964 Peerage extinct on his death	2 May 1901	12 Feb 1966	64
HURD OF WESTWELL
13 Jun 1997	B[L]		Douglas Richard Hurd Created Baron Hurd of Westwell for life 13 Jun 1997 MP for Oxfordshire Mid 1974‑1983 and Witney 1983‑1997; Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1979‑1983; Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1984‑1985; Home Secretary 1985‑1989; Foreign Secretary 1989‑1995; PC 1982; CH 1995	8 Mar 1930
HUSSAIN
20 Jan 2011	B[L]		Qurban Hussain Created Baron Hussain for life 20 Jan 2011
HUSSEIN-ECE
25 Jun 2010	B[L]		Meral Hussein Ece Created Baroness Hussein-Ece for life 25 Jun 2010	10 Oct 1953
HUSSEY
23 Jun 1295	B	1	Henry Hussey Summoned to Parliament as Lord Hussey 23 Jun 1295	21 Dec 1265	Feb 1332	67
Feb 1332		2	Henry Hussey	1302	21 Jul 1349	47
21 Jul 1349		3	Henry Hussey		1349
1349		4	Henry Hussey		1384
1384		5	Henry Hussey	1362	1409	47
1409		6	Henry Hussey		1460
1460 to     5 Dec 1470		7	Nicholas Hussey On his death the peerage fell into abeyance		5 Dec 1470
20 Nov 1348 to     1 Sep 1361	B	1	Roger Hussey Summoned to Parliament as Lord Hussey 20 Nov 1348 Peerage extinct on his death		1 Sep 1361
1 Dec 1529 to     27 Aug 1537	B	1	John Hussey Summoned to Parliament as Lord Hussey 1 Dec 1529 He was attainted and the peerage forfeited	c 1475	27 Aug 1537
HUSSEY OF NORTH BRADLEY
11 Sep 1996 to     27 Dec 2006	B[L]		Marmaduke James Hussey Created Baron Hussey of North Bradley for life 11 Sep 1996 Peerage extinct on his death	29 Aug 1923	27 Dec 2006	83
HUTCHINSON OF ALEXANDRIA AND KNOCKLOFTY
16 Dec 1801 to     29 Jun 1832	B	1	John Hely-Hutchinson, later 2nd Earl of Donoughmore Created Baron Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knocklofty 16 Dec 1801 Peerage extinct on his death	15 May 1757	29 Jun 1832	75
HUTCHINSON OF KNOCKLOFTY
14 Jul 1821	V	1	Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore Created Viscount Hutchinson of Knocklofty 14 Jul 1821 For details of the special remainder included in the creation of this peerage, see the note at the foot of this page See "Donoughmore"	29 Jan 1756	22 Aug 1825	69
HUTCHINSON OF LULLINGTON
16 May 1978 to     13 Nov 2017	B[L]		Jeremy Nicholas Hutchinson Created Baron Hutchinson of Lullington for life 16 May 1978 Peerage extinct on his death	28 Mar 1915	13 Nov 2017	102
HUTCHISON OF MONTROSE
30 Jun 1932 to     13 Jun 1950	B	1	Robert Hutchison Created Baron Hutchison of Montrose 30 Jun 1932 MP for Kirkcaldy 1922‑1923 and Montrose 1924‑1932; Paymaster General 1935‑1938; PC 1937 Peerage extinct on his death	5 Sep 1873	13 Jun 1950	76
HUTTON
6 Jan 1997 to     14 Jul 2020	B[L]		Sir (James) Brian Edward Hutton Created Baron Hutton for life 6 Jan 1997 Lord Chief Justice [NI] 1988‑1997; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1997‑2004; PC 1988 Peerage extinct on his death	29 Jun 1931	14 Jul 2020	89
HUTTON OF FURNESS
27 Jun 2010	B[L]		John Matthew Patrick Hutton Created Baron Hutton of Furness for life 27 Jun 2010 MP for Barrow & Furness 1992‑2010; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 2005; Secretary of State for Work & Pensions 2005‑2007; Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform 2007‑2008; Secretary of State for Defence 2008‑2009; PC 2001	6 May 1955
HYDE OF HINDON
3 Nov 1660	B	1	Edward Hyde Created Baron Hyde of Hindon 3 Nov 1660, and Viscount Cornbury and Earl of Clarendon 20 Apr 1661 See "Clarendon"	18 Feb 1609	19 Dec 1674	65
23 Jan 1751			Henry Hyde, styled Viscount Cornbury He was summoned to Parliament by a Writ of Acceleration as Baron Hyde 23 Jan 1751 MP for Oxford University 1732‑1751 He was the son and heir apparent of the 4th Earl of Clarendon, but died before he could succeed to that title	28 Nov 1710	28 May 1753	42
3 Jun 1756	B	1	Thomas Villiers Created Baron Hyde of Hindon 3 Jun 1756 and Earl of Clarendon 14 Jun 1776 For details of the special remainder included in the creation of the barony of 1756, see the note at the foot of this page See "Clarendon"	1709	11 Dec 1786	77
HYDE OF KENILWORTH
24 Apr 1681	V	1	Laurence Hyde Created Baron Wotton Basset and Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth 24 Apr 1681 and Earl of Rochester 29 Nov 1682 See "Rochester"	15 Mar 1642	2 May 1711	69
HYLTON
23 Jun 1295	B	1	Robert Hylton Summoned to Parliament as Lord Hylton 23 Jun 1295		1322
1322		2	Alexander Hylton		1360
1360		3	Robert Hylton	1340	1377	37
1377		4	William Hylton	1356	25 May 1435	78
25 May 1435		5	Robert Hylton	1385	11 Aug 1447	62
11 Aug 1447		6	William Hylton		13 Oct 1457
13 Oct 1457		7	William Hylton	1451	c 1500
c 1500		8	William Hylton		c 1535
c 1535		9	Thomas Hylton		c 1560
c 1560		10	William Hylton	c 1510	c 1565
c 1565		11	William Hylton		9 Sep 1600
9 Sep 1600		12	Henry Hylton	1586	30 Mar 1641	54
30 Mar 1641		13	Robert Hylton		25 Dec 1641
25 Dec 1641		14	John Hylton		12 Dec 1655
12 Dec 1655		15	John Hylton	1628	21 Jun 1670	41
21 Jun 1670		16	Henry Hylton	1637	16 Apr 1712	74
16 Apr 1712		17	Richard Hylton		3 Sep 1722
3 Sep 1722 to     25 Sep 1746		18	John Hylton MP for Carlisle 1727‑1746 On his death the peerage fell into abeyance	27 Apr 1699	25 Sep 1746	47
HYLTON OF HYLTON
16 Jul 1866	B	1	Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, 1st baronet Created Baron Hylton of Hylton 16 Jul 1866 MP for Petersfield 1837‑1838 and 1841‑1866; PC 1859	7 Dec 1800	1 Jun 1876	75
1 Jun 1876		2	Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe MP for Wells 1855‑1868	23 Jun 1829	31 Oct 1899	70
31 Oct 1899		3	Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe MP for Wells 1895‑1899	10 Nov 1862	26 May 1945	82
26 May 1945		4	William George Hervey Jolliffe Lord Lieutenant Somerset 1949‑1967	2 Dec 1898	14 Nov 1967	68
14 Nov 1967		5	Raymond Hervey Jolliffe [Elected hereditary peer 1999‑2023]	13 Jun 1932
HYLTON-FOSTER
7 Dec 1965	B[L]		Audrey Pellew Hylton-Foster Created Baroness Hylton-Foster for life 7 Dec 1965 Peerage extinct on her death	19 May 1908	31 Oct 2002	94
HYNDFORD
25 Jul 1701	E[S]	1	John Carmichael, 2nd Lord Carmichael Created Lord Carmichael, Viscount of Inglisberry and Nemphlar and Earl of Hyndford 25 Jul 1701 Secretary of State for Scotland 1696‑1707	28 Feb 1638	20 Sep 1710	72
20 Sep 1710		2	James Carmichael		16 Aug 1737
16 Aug 1737		3	John Carmichael Lord Lieutenant Lanark 1739; KT 1742; PC 1750	15 Mar 1701	19 Jul 1767	66
19 Jul 1767		4	John Carmichael	5 May 1710	21 Dec 1787	77
21 Dec 1787		5	Thomas Carmichael	c 1750	14 Feb 1811
14 Feb 1811 to     18 Apr 1817		6	Andrew Carmichael On his death the peerage became either extinct or dormant	1758	18 Apr 1817	58
HYNDLEY
21 Jan 1931 2 Feb 1948 to     5 Jan 1963	B V	1 1	Sir John Scott Hindley, 1st baronet Created Baron Hyndley 21 Jan 1931 and Viscount Hyndley 2 Feb 1948 Peerages extinct on his death	24 Oct 1883	5 Jan 1963	79
HYTHE
5 Jul 1911	V	1	Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey Created Viscount Hythe and Earl Brassey 5 Jul 1911 See "Brassey"	11 Feb 1836	23 Feb 1918	82

	The special remainder to the Barony of Howe created in 1788
	From the London Gazette of 19 July 1788 (issue 13009, page 349):-
	The King has been pleased to grant to the Right Honourable Richard Viscount Howe, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, the Dignities of a Baron and Earl of the Kingdom of Great Britain, by the Name, Style and Title of Baron Howe, of Langar in the County of Nottingham, and Earl Howe, with Remainders successively to the said Barony to his eldest Daughter the Honourable Sophia Charlotte Curzon, Wife of Penn Asheton Curzon, Esq; and his other Daughters the Honourable Mary Juliana Howe, and the Right Honourable Catherine Louisa Countess of Altamont, Wife of the Right Honourable John Dennis Earl of Altamont, of the Kingdom of Ireland, and to the respective Heirs Male of their Bodies successively lawfully issuing.
	Some anecdotes regarding the peerage of Howth
	The title of Howth is pronounced so as to rhyme with "both".
	There are various stories which explain the origin of the surname of St. Lawrence. One story has it that the founder of the family was Sir Amory (or Almeric) Tristram, who received a grant from King Henry II around the year 1177 which gave him title to all such lands as he could conquer from the native Irish. According to this story, Sir Amory married the sister of his brother-in-arms, the Sieur de Courcy, on St. Lawrence's Day and thereafter adopted the surname of St. Lawrence. In another version of the story, Sir Amory sailed from Normandy with Sir John de Courcy and fought against the Irish at the Bridge of Evora on 10 August, the feast-day of St. Lawrence. Having achieved victory, he changed his family's surname to commemorate the event.
	Another tradition is that the gates of Howth Castle are solemnly shut, and then immediately re-opened, at the dinner hour. This tradition dates back to 1576, when a celebrated Irish female adventuress and pirate queen, Grace O'Malley (c 1530‑c 1603) attempted to pay a courtesy visit to Howth Castle. She was informed that the family were at dinner, and the gates were shut against her. Enraged, she abducted Lord Howth's son and only agreed to release him when Lord Howth promised to keep the gates open for unexpected visitors and to set an extra place at every meal, an agreement which is still honoured to this day.
	There is also a charming ghost story connected with Howth Castle. According to the tale, a ghost or banshee haunts the Long Gallery in the castle. Legend has it that the ghost is that of a Lady Howth who lived in the thirteenth century, who, according to tradition, had been washed ashore from a wreck at Howth, and, having been with great difficulty restored to consciousness at the castle, so excited the admiration of the then owner of the castle that he married her. No one knew where she came from or what her nationality was, and she spoke a language that no-one could understand. In time, however, she learned to communicate with her husband and the marriage was reported to be very happy. The only condition to the marriage was that, for one month every year, she be allowed to visit her people and that no-one would attempt to follow her or to make any attempt to find out where she had gone. However, whenever she was absent, a white rat would make its appearance, and soon became a great favourite; but as soon as the lady returned, the rat would disappear. One year, when the lady was away and the rat had re-appeared, an English visitor who was ignorant of the fondness of the lord for the rodent, caught sight of the rat and inflicted a mortal wound upon it with his sword. The rat made it as far as the Long Gallery before dying. Moments later, a wild shriek rang through the castle, and Lady Howth was found dying in the Long Gallery from a sword wound. Ever since that time, during the period each year when the lady usually went away, the Long Gallery was been haunted by the figure of a beautiful woman, dressed in the fashion of the thirteenth century, and followed by a white rat.
	A further story relates that there was a large and ancient yew tree which grew in the courtyard of Howth Castle. It was believed that, whenever a branch was broken from the trunk of this tree, the death of the current Lord Howth would shortly follow. Apparently, the tree itself died just prior to the death of the last Earl of Howth, upon which event the peerages became extinct.
	Lady Selina Hastings [24 August 1707‑17 June 1791], wife of the 9th Earl of Huntingdon
	The Countess of Huntingdon was a religious leader who played a prominent role in the rise of the Methodist Church in the 18th century. The following biography appeared in the January 1964 issue of the Australian monthly magazine Parade:-
	In 1739 the Countess of Huntingdon began taking notice of a religious revival, sparked by a clergyman named John Wesley, which was sweeping England. Its fervour was unprecedented. Preachers went through England calling on the people to aid them in their campaign to infuse new life and spiritual energy into the Church of England. The crusaders invaded fields, village greens and roadways gaining new converts by the thousand. When the countess heard one of these fervent, eloquent men she joined their campaign. So began the lifelong work of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, in the religious revival which resulted in the foundation of the Methodist Church.
	It has been said that in her time the Countess of Huntingdon was "as conspicuous a torch-bearer for the revival as John Wesley himself". While Wesley and other preachers were evangelists among the poor and humble, Lady Huntingdon set about the infinitely more arduous mission of "bringing the dissolute upper classes to salvation". She poured out her fortune building 64 chapels and setting up a school for Methodist ministers in a 500-year-old castle at Trevecca in Wales.
	The Countess of Huntingdon was born Lady Selina Shirley, at Staunton Harold, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire, in 1707. She was the second daughter of the second Earl Ferrers. A pious girl, she was repelled by the frivolity and folly of the fashionable world of the day and constantly prayed that she would marry into "a serious family". Her prayers were answered when at 20 she married Theophilus Hastings, ninth Earl of Huntingdon. Although no ascetic, Huntingdon was conspicuous for his temperance in a profligate age. The couple took up residence at the earl's seat, Donington Park, in Leicestershire, and the countess bore six children.
	Passionately interested in public affairs, Lady Huntingdon first attracted attention in 1738 after the House of Lords had unanimously resolved that, during a certain debate, no women would be admitted to the chamber. The countess immediately rounded up a squad of aristocratic ladies and on the day of the debate stormed the House of Lords. They created such a din outside the doors that members could hardly hear themselves speak. All efforts to remove or silence them were futile. Nevertheless, the ladies had not gained admission, so the countess ordered a change of tactics. They subsided into sudden quiet. Half an hour passed and the Lord Chancellor assumed the enemy had withdrawn. He ordered the doors opened. At that the countess and her followers poured in.
	The following year Lady Huntingdon plunged into promoting the religious revival spearheaded by John Wesley, at the same time making herself a target for ridicule in aristocratic circles. At the time atheism was fashionable and sexual morality in high places perhaps worse than at any other time in English history. In addition people of rank were so convinced of their superiority by birth that the teachings of Wesley and the Methodists were regarded as offensive to natural law. Trying to show the Countess of Huntingdon she was making a mistake in linking herself with Wesley and his followers, the Duchess of Buckingham wrote to her - "It is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth. This is highly offensive and insulting and I cannot but wonder why your Ladyship should relish sentiments so much at variance with high rank and good breeding."
	Even the countess's husband did not favour her conversion to Methodism. He called in the Bishop of Gloucester [Martin Benson 1689‑1752] to reason with her, for, as he put it, her "religious enthusiasm could be socially embarrassing". But the bishop's arguments had no effect on the countess, who was astounding everyone by openly proclaiming herself a sinner. Soon afterwards she appointed the Reverend John [sic - George] Whitefield [1714‑1770], one of the finest open-air preachers of the day, as her first personal chaplain and accompanied him on his evangelical tours. At one meeting in Yorkshire as Whitefield thundered denunciations of the sinners present, two men dropped dead with terror. Writing of the incident to her husband, the countess said: "In deathly silence this great preacher proceeded, with the dead bodies lying before him, to warn the stricken gathering of the wrath to come".
	Wherever Whitefield and Lady Huntingdon held their meetings, it has been said, "scoffers stayed listening until their hair rose on their heads and they found themselves on their knees at last, weeping and groaning". But not all the listeners were converted. Often Whitefield and the countess were pelted with eggs. The countess herself was reputed to have the ability to "frighten sinners half out of their wits". She paid a visit to a hovel occupied by a soldier's wife who lay dying after the birth of twins. So forcefully did her Ladyship describe her awful state and the imminent danger of her soul if she died unpardoned, wrote one biographer, "that the poor woman burst into a flood of tears and began to beg forgiveness".
	But Lady Huntingdon had her own sorrows. All but two of her children died in infancy. In 1746 two of her sons died of smallpox and her husband succumbed to apoplexy after what a contemporary described as a "particularly unnerving dream". Widowed at 39, Lady Huntingdon dedicated her great fortune and her energy to the conversion of the English aristocracy. In her new house in Chelsea, Whitefield and other famous preachers such as Isaac Watts [1674‑1748], Philip Doddridge [1702‑1751] and A[ugustus] M[ontague] Toplady [1740‑1778] tried to convey the spirit of the ever-growing religious revival to select and influential audiences. Even well-known atheists such as Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Chesterfield and Horace Walpole attended the meetings.
	When the Church of England began expelling clergymen who advocated Methodism, the Countess of Huntingdon provided them with chapels so that they could continue preaching. She gave up her carriage and sold her jewels to buy theatres and halls which were converted into Methodist chapels and most of her income went in living expenses for her scores of personal chaplains.
	In her zeal, the countess even went to the extreme of rebuking the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cornwallis, after he had given several large balls and parties at Lambeth Palace. Jealous of the reputation of the church to which she still belonged, she presented herself at Lambeth Palace and denounced the archbishop. She claimed later that she had remonstrated with the Archbishop with the greatest delicacy, but his reply was that he had been "grossly affronted". Dr. Cornwallis not only refused to put a ban on future entertainments but he allowed his wife to make public statements ridiculing the "Queen of the Methodists" and her work. The Countess retaliated by seeking a private audience with George III and Queen Charlotte at Kew. George III listened attentively to her complaints, agreed with her disapproval of the Archbishop's behaviour and promised some action in "reforming such indecent practices". A few days later the Archbishop of Canterbury received a letter from the monarch sharply criticising his "improprieties".
	It was inevitable that the Methodists would break from the Church of England. In the case of the Countess of Huntingdon the situation came to a head in 1779 when she clashed with the Rev. William Sellon, curate of the Clerkenwell parish of St. James. In the parish was a large, circular building called the Pantheon, originally built for theatrical purposes, but now in disuse. The countess bought it, changed its name to the Spa Fields Chapel, and installed one of her chaplains. The Rev. Sellon objected on the ground that no one had any right to preach in his parish without his permission. The matter was taken to the ecclesiastical courts and Sellon won his case.
	It was held that not only Spa Fields Chapel, but all such establishments conducted by the Countess of Huntingdon were subject to the laws of the Church of England while they remained within it. The only alternative to closing her chapels was to secede from the Church of England. So she broke away, forming with her followers a separate non-conformist sect known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection. [The sect still exists in England, and, strangely, Sierra Leone.]
	The countess lived on in active control of her sect until her death in 1791 at the age of 84. When she died the sect was in the midst of new and ambitious projects - conversion of the Jews, the dispatch of a mission to Tahiti, establishment of chapels in the United States and the purchase of a female slave in the West Indies, who would be brought to England and christened Selina.
	The greatest disappointment in the countess's life was her failure to convert her first cousin and her father's heir, the fourth Earl Ferrers. Ferrers was tried for murder and hanged at Tyburn in 1760 - the last nobleman in England to suffer a felon's death. Selina visited him daily in the Tower of London while he awaited execution and pleaded with him "to repent and be saved". Finally he refused to see her. Ferrers had reason for this action. He had learned that she had persuaded the governor of the Tower not to allow him to say farewell to his mistress, who was the mother of his four children. The earl's grief at this was conceivably greater than the Countess of Huntingdon's wrath at his refusal to see things her way.
	The Huntingdon Peerage Claim of 1818‑1819
	The following article, written by Dalrymple Belgrave, is taken from a series entitled Romances of High Life published in the Manchester Times in 1898:-
	The Wars of the Roses, which left many an old knightly name a mere shadow of the past, did much for the House of Hastings. Sir William Hastings, afterwards Lord Hastings, who was Edward IV's faithful follower, young Prince Edward of Lancaster's murderer, and Jane Shore's lover, became so great a man as to be the object of the treacherous jealousy of Richard III, who trumped up a charge of witchcraft and treason against him, and hurried him from the Council Chamber to the Tower to be executed. Though William, Lord Hastings, was attainted, Richard, for some crafty reasons of State, at once, after his death, reversed the attainder.
	His son came of age to be taken into great favour by Henry VII. Jealous of most of the noble families, whose pedigrees were better than his own, the Princes of the House of Tudor made an exception of the family of Hastings. They conferred Donington Castle, Leicestershire, on it, and in return found its members the most faithful of servants and followers.
	The third Lord Hastings was, by Henry VIII, created the Earl of Huntingdon. His son, the second Earl, married Catherine Pole, daughter of Lord Montacute and granddaughter of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, the last of the Plantagenets.
	The Hastings family were supporters of Queen Mary against the pretensions of Lady Jane Grey. They were, however, greatly in favour with Queen Elizabeth. In the time of the Civil War they were staunch Cavaliers. The eighth Earl served under Marlborough, but died unmarried, and was succeeded by his [half-]brother, Theophilus, who married Lady Selina Shirley, the Methodist Lady Huntingdon. He had one  son and three daughters. One daughter, Lady Elizabeth, married Lord Rawdon, afterwards created Earl of Moira. Their eldest son was created the Marquis of Hastings.
	The ninth Earl had another daughter, Selina, who died after her marriage had been arranged. The intended bridegroom was an officer in the Army, a "protégé" of Lord Huntingdon's, who had neither rank nor fortune, but he could claim what Lord Huntingdon thought was the best blood in England, for he was a Hastings. It was believed that, failing his lordship's family, this young George Hastings' elder brother Edward would be the next Lord Huntingdon, though his family branched away from the parent stem so far back as the time of the second Earl. But the bride died on the day she was to have been married, and young Hastings went away heart broken, so it was said, though he afterwards married.
	At Donington they ceased to remember much about their far-distant cousins, for the ninth Earl died, and he was succeeded by his son, Francis, who had no children, and as time went on began to take more and more interest in his nephew, the Marquis, who had chosen the name of Hastings for his new title, and who would add dignity and honour to his mother's family, which, so the uncle considered, he would eventually represent.
	Francis, the tenth Earl, left all his property to his nephew, the Marquis, who, however, made no claim to the earldom of Huntingdon. In the meantime, George Hastings had married and died, leaving only one surviving son, Hans Francis Hastings. George's eldest brother had also died without children, so Hans Hastings represented the branch of the family who had been supposed to come next to the direct line. He had been in the navy, and had seen a good deal of service, but, in the year 1808, was content to take the rather humble post of ordnance storekeeper at Enniskillen, in Ireland. He had married, when just of age, the daughter of a Mr. Cobbe, the rector of Great Marlow, and probably was anxious to settle on shore. For a good many years Captain Hastings seems to have troubled himself very little about his family honours.
	There was a story that he had a quarrel with an Irish nobleman, who insulted him, but refused to go out with him [for a duel?] because he was of inferior rank, and that, incensed at this treatment, Captain Hastings took the trouble to prove to the Irish lord that he was a descendant of the Plantagenets, and "de jure" the Earl of Huntingdon. This story was the common gossip of the country-side. As a matter of fact, there was no truth in it; but, idle gossip though it was, it helped to bring about a change in the old House of Hastings.
	Captain Hastings had a neighbour, a Mr. Bell, one of whose sons was a sucking lawyer, with a taste for pedigree-hunting and heraldry. Young Bell and Captain Hastings had become great friends, and the former, hearing the story, naturally enough asked his friend whether it was true. That the story was all nonsense, but, so far as it related to his pedigree, it was founded on fact, was Captain Hasting's answer. And then he went on to tell Mr. Bell his reasons for believing that he was the eleventh Earl of Huntingdon. He could not have told his story to anyone who would have taken a keener interest in it. Captain Hastings's knowledge of his pedigree seems to have been very vague. Young Bell, however, had plenty of enterprise, and it was agreed between them that he should work up the case for establishing the claim on the "no cure, no pay" principle. The consequence of this was that Mr. Bell and a friend, a Mr. Jamieson, a Dublin solicitor, started off to England to make inquiries.
	Castle Donington was, of course, their first point, and they began matters by having an interview with the local lawyer, a Mr. Dalby. It is not surprising that the latter gentleman was somewhat guarded, for he did not know how the powers that were at Donington, the Marquis of Hastings's family, would view the claim. If he knew anything he kept his knowledge to himself, and went away from the inn where Bell and his friend were staying, leaving them none the wiser. Fortunately, the landlord, after the manner of his class, was a man who took an interest in his guests' affairs. He seemed to have listened to what was going on when the lawyer was there, and when the latter took his departure, he could not help talking to his guests about the matter he had overheard. He knew something of the gossip of the place about George Hastings, and he told them that at Belton, some four miles off, there resided a reduced gentleman of the name of Needham, a descendant on the female side of the same branch of the Hastings family as that from which Captain Hastings sprang.
	Keen as a hound that had lost the scent and found it again, Mr. Bell started the next morning for Belton, and he found Mr. Needham at work on his farm. From that gentleman Mr. Bell learnt that George Hastings was the son of Henry Hastings, of Lutterworth, who was the son of a Richard Hastings, of, he believed, the same place. It was easy to establish this, for Mr. Bell found Henry Hastings's tomb at Lutterworth, and Richard Hastings at Welford, a village seven miles off, in the next county, Northamptonshire; and there he met a very old man who said he remembered Henry Hastings, of Lutterworth, and said that he was called Lord Hastings, because of the general report that he and his sons - in failure of issue of the reigning branch - were next heirs to the title of Huntingdon. Richard Hastings, of Welford, was the son of Henry Hastings, of Humberstone, who was buried at Loughborough; and there Mr. Bell found his tomb. This Henry Hastings was a staunch Cavalier, and his loyalty had cost him most of his fortune, for, after his time, the fortunes of his branch of the family declined. He had married the daughter of Goodhall of Belgrave, and left five sons and three daughters. But of these sons two died unmarried, one married, but without children, one married and only left daughters, and the other was Henry of Welford.
	It was on his drive from Loughborough back to Donington that Mr. Bell met with an adventure that, in telling the story, he makes a good deal of, for he has a turn for picturesque writing. He had tried in vain to glean information about the Hastings family from his fellow-passengers on the coach, who either would not or could not tell him anything about them, when he passed a donkey-cart driven by an old woman. There was a spare seat in the cart, and it came into his head that he would like to take it. With a good deal of Irish blarney, he asked her leave. She gave it, and at once he jumped from the coach into the cart. It turned out to be a move in the right direction. The old woman was only too ready to talk about Mr. Bell's subject, and, what is more, she had a great deal to tell him. She had been Lady Selina Hastings's maid, and she told the story of Colonel Hastings's love affair, and the bride's death, and a little romance of her own - namely, that she had always been in love with her mistress's intended husband. It makes a pretty little incident, and Mr. Bell talks of his sudden impulse to jump from the coach into the donkey-cart as a providential circumstance which helped to bring back the family of Hastings to their ancient dignity; but, as a matter of fact, one does not see that he found out much from her that he did not already know.
	With the exception of the sons of Henry Hastings, the Cavalier, there were none of the line to be exhausted that would interfere with Captain Hastings, and it was clear that that gentleman was the head of the line that was descended from Sir Edward Hastings. But many a Hastings had been born from the direct line since Sir Edward's time, and they all had to be exhausted before the latter's family could come in. Mr. Bell always appeared to be all hopefulness, and though Mr. Jamieson, the Dublin lawyer, gave the matter up as one too hopeless to justify expense being incurred, he seemed to be not one whit discouraged.
	The first thing he did was to seek out the advice of Sir Samuel Romilly, whom he followed to his country seat near Dorking, and accosted him when he was walking in the garden. He presented him with a case and a fee, and told his story, but Sir Samuel answered that he did not take cases. The Irishman was not to be denied, and he made a speech full of his native blarney, finishing up with: "I value your opinion more than that of any other man on earth; if you refuse to let me have it, you will break my heart". "My accent", writes Mr. Bell, "convinced him that I was Irish; and with one of those smiles which sometimes illuminated his intelligent countenance he familiarly replied: 'Well, Paddy, I will.'" Sir Samuel Romilly's opinion was, on the whole, encouraging.
	A month or two afterwards, Lord and Lady Huntingdon, as they now called themselves, and Mr. Bell crossed over to England; and that year they ate their Christmas dinner at the Huntingdon Arms in Ashby-de-la-Zouche. For some weeks Mr. Bell and the family were agreeably occupied in the task of making extracts from registers, and noticing the likeness between his lordship's children and the family portraits at Donington. They had, however, been a little premature, for Mr. Bell had not really learnt what was in front of him.
	Early in January he paid a visit to Mr. Townsend, the Windsor herald. It is likely enough that the latter gentleman experienced some little pleasure in showing the young gentleman from Ireland how much at fault he was in thinking that his labours were at an end. He was able to do so very effectively. The third Earl of Huntingdon had two sons - the elder, who carried on the succession; the younger, Henry Hastings, who was of Woodlands, in the New Forest. Collins's Peerage settled Henry Hastings in a very satisfactory manner. He died, it is said, leaving two sons, who died without issue. Mr. Townsend, however, was able to tell a different story. He produced a "Herald's Visitation" which showed that Henry Hastings, of Woodlands, had five sons, and that these five had altogether 24 sons. Here was rather an awkward family to exhaust, but there was no doubt that proof had to be given that all these descendants of Henry, of Woodlands, had died without issue before the descendants of his uncle, Sir Edward Hastings, need think about claiming the Earldom of Huntingdon.
	Mr. Bell was not daunted, but went back to his task. He read upwards of 180 wills of persons of the name of Hastings. He hunted up registers, and did at last succeed in exhausting a great part of the Woodlands branch. But there were two tiresome members of it who seemed to stubbornly resist his endeavours to dispose of them. A "Surrey Visitation" for 1681 showed that a Ferdinando and a Deborah Hastings, of Kensington, had two sons, Ferdinando and Theophilus, born in 1675 and 1677. More about them he could not find, other than the register of the deaths of a Ferdinando and a Theophilus Hastings of Long-alley, Shoreditch. But he could not show that they were the same men, nor could he prove they died without issue. Sir Samuel Romilly was consulted again, but all the comfort Mr. Bell obtained from the great lawyer was the pious sentiment that he must trust in the goodness of Providence. Going away from Sir Samuel's house, he happened to meet his client, who saw that something was wrong, and insisted on going with him to Mr. Townsend. The latter gentleman declared that they had no chance of succeeding, and that at the best the claim would be referred to a Committee of Privilege, which would be a long and expensive proceeding.
	As they drove home, Mr. Bell's client complained that he had been brought over to England on a fool's errand. When he got home, however, he took down the copies of the Hastings wills he had collected, and began to read them over. Then a happy thought came to him - to tell the truth, it is one that would have occurred to a good many other people in his place, though he naturally prides himself a good deal on it. It was that some of the sisters and daughters of the Earls of Huntingdon might, in their wills, have remembered their collateral relations. A Lady Elizabeth Hastings had died during what was probably the lifetime of Theophilus and Ferdinando. After a sleepless night, Mr. Bell rushed to the Prerogative Office and obtained Lady Elizabeth's will. He read it and, to his delight found that it bequeathed a bond, value £100, to Ferdinando Hastings of Long-alley, Shoreditch, gentleman, late of Kensington.
	"By the help of this new light", says Mr. Bell, "I soon discovered the will of this Ferdinando also, and thanked God when I found that he had an only child, a daughter named Deborah, to whom in a codicil he leaves the aforesaid bond, 'bequeathed to him by Lady Elizabeth Hastings, his relative'. My search was then renewed for the will of Theophilus, Ferdinando's brother. I knew that if I succeeded in finding it, all the imps of darkness could not prevent my ultimate success. I therefore sought the document with a corresponding degree of anxiety. When at length I discovered the will of a Theophilus Hastings, which was proved in 1755, my feelings were wound up to such a pitch of interest that for some moments I scarcely attempted to read that which lay under my eyes. Having recalled my faculties, I with difficulty read the first lines, which began: 'I, Theophilus Hastings, of Long-alley, in the parish of Shoreditch, gentleman, being well stricken in years', etc. There my agitation became excessive; on the tenor of that instrument my own earthly happiness, my hopes of honest fame, and, what I valued still more, the prosperity of my noble friend, might be said to depend; and those only who have laboured as I did, and pined in tedious suspense for the treasure which was to confirm, or perhaps blast, their prospects, can sufficiently estimate what I felt at that moment. At last I mustered courage to proceed; all my trepidation vanished when I found that the testator died a bachelor, bequeathing all his estate, real and personal, to the four children of his niece Deborah. I flung down the books and nearly ran over the clerks, jostled everyone I met, and, rushing from the Commons with an impetuosity of which, under other circumstances, I might have been ashamed, threw myself into a coach and ordered the coachman to Lord Huntingdon's residence, in Montague-place."
	Having found the missing link, Mr. Bell went in triumph to Sir Samuel Romilly. The great lawyer, he says, took him by the hand, with his eyes sparkling with pleasure, and declared his gratification in the warmest terms, telling him that he was an extraordinary fellow. Sir Samuel also wrote to the Attorney-General, saying that he would save himself much trouble if he would receive Mr. Bell as counsel when the case came before him in chambers, though he was then neither a barrister nor a solicitor. After an attendance before the Attorney-General, Mr. Bell found that his troubles were by no means at an end. Several other claimants came forward. One was a Cheltenham tailor. Another, a George Hastings, of Kilard, Ireland, seemed more dangerous, and appeared to be supported by the Marquis of Hastings, as that nobleman's lawyer acted for him. He claimed to be the eldest male descendant of John Hastings, grandson of Henry Hastings, of Woodlands. This claim gave Mr. Bell some trouble, but again he attacked the Woodlands branch, and succeeded in completely exhausting it, and showing that, whoever Mr. John Hastings might be, he certainly did not descend from it. At length, after some more difficulties had cropped up and been overcome, there was the final hearing before the Attorney-General, who declared he had never known a case conducted with more zeal, integrity and ability, and commissioned Mr. Bell to draft the report, to which he afterwards added a clause to the effect that he was of the opinion that Hans Francis Hastings, the petitioner, had proved his claim to the earldom of Huntingdon.
	On January 7th of the following year [1819], when Mr. Bell and Lord Huntingdon were at Covent Garden Theatre, they received the news that the Lord Chancellor had approved the report, and that the Prince Regent had signed the warrant empowering him to issue a writ of summons to Lord Huntingdon. "On reading the joyful news", says Mr. Bell, "I could scarce refrain from exclaiming, in the language of the King in Hamlet, though with widely different feelings, 'Break up the play.'"
	Thus the eleventh Earl of Huntingdon succeeded in recovering the family honours, which had been in abeyance for about thirty years; but the family estates had gone away from him, and were not to be recovered. "The Story of the Huntingdon Peerage"*, written by Mr. Bell, ends with a stirring description of the visits which the Earl of Huntingdon made to Ashby and Castle Donington to make formal entry on the estates of his ancestors. This ceremony seems to have been witnessed with the greatest enthusiasm by crowds of the tenantry and townspeople. But enthusiasm does not avail much against legal instruments; and since the last Earl of Huntingdon had suffered a recovery of his estates, and settled them on his daughter, the case of the successful claimant to the earldom had little, if anything, to rest on. The Huntingdon estates remained in possession of the Marquis of Hastings and his family, until they came to the last Marquis of Hastings, whose disastrous career on the Turf is a chapter of sporting history.
	* Its full title is The Huntingdon Peerage; comprising a detailed account of the evidence and proceedings connected with the recent restoration of the earldom … to which is prefixed a genealogical and biographical history of the illustrious house of Hastings, including a memoir of the present Earl (Hans Francis Hastings) and his family by Henry Nugent Bell, published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, London 1820.
	The special remainder to the Viscountcy of Hutchinson of Knocklofty
	From the London Gazette of 14 July 1821 (issue 17724, page 1461):-
	The King has … been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to Richard Earl of Donoughmore, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Hutchinson, of Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary; with remainder, in default of such issue male, to the heirs male of the body of Christian Baroness Donoughmore, deceased (mother of the said Richard Earl of Donoughmore), by John Hely Hutchinson, Esq. also deceased.
	The special remainder to the Barony of Hyde of Hindon created in 1756
	From the London Gazette of 29 May 1756 (issue 9587, page 3):-
	The King has been pleased to grant unto the Honourable Thomas Villiers, of the Grove in the County of Hertford, Esq; and the Heirs Male of his Body by the Lady Charlotte Hyde, his present Wife, the Dignity of a Baron of the Kingdom of Great Britain, by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Hyde, of Hindon in the County of Wilts; and, in Default of such Issue, the Dignity of Baroness Hyde of Hindon aforesaid, to the said Lady Charlotte Hyde, and the Dignity of Baron Hyde to her Heirs Male.

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