PEERAGES
Last updated 16/11/2018 (28 Sep 2024)
Date	Rank	Order	Name	Born	Died	Age
GADHIA
31 Aug 2016	B[L]		Jitesh Kishorekumar Gadhia Created Baron Gadhia for life 31 Aug 2016	May 1970
GAGE
14 Sep 1720	V[I]	1	Thomas Gage Created Baron Gage and Viscount Gage 14 Sep 1720 MP for Minehead 1717 and Tewkesbury 1721‑1754	c 1695	21 Dec 1754
21 Dec 1754 17 Oct 1780 1 Nov 1790 to     11 Oct 1791	B B	2 1 1	William Hall Gage Created Baron Gage 17 Oct 1780 and 1 Nov 1790 For details of the special remainder included in the creation of the Barony of 1790, see the note at the foot of this page MP for Seaford 1744‑1747 and 1754‑1780 On his death the Barony of 1780 became extinct whilst the Barony and Viscountcy of 1720 and the Barony of 1790 passed to -	1 Jan 1718	11 Oct 1791	73
11 Oct 1791		3	Henry Gage	4 Mar 1761	29 Jan 1808	46
29 Jan 1808		4	Henry Hall Gage	14 Dec 1791	20 Jan 1877	85
20 Jan 1877		5	Henry Charles Gage	2 Apr 1854	18 Apr 1912	58
18 Apr 1912		6	Henry Rainald Gage	30 Dec 1895	27 Feb 1982	86
27 Feb 1982		7	George John St. Clere Gage	8 Jul 1932	30 Nov 1993	61
30 Nov 1993		8	Henry Nicholas Gage	9 Apr 1934
GAINFORD
3 Jan 1917	B	1	Joseph Albert Pease Created Baron Gainford 3 Jan 1917 MP for Tyneside 1892‑1900, Saffron Walden 1901‑1910 and Rotherham 1910‑1917; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1910‑1911; President of the Board of Education 1911‑1915; Postmaster General 1916; PC 1908	17 Jan 1860	15 Feb 1943	83
15 Feb 1943		2	Joseph Pease	8 Mar 1889	23 Sep 1971	82
23 Sep 1971		3	Joseph Edward Pease	25 Dec 1921	4 Apr 2013	91
4 Apr 2013		4	George Pease	20 Apr 1926	12 Mar 2022	95
12 Mar 2022		5	Adrian Christopher Pease	1 Feb 1960
GAINSBOROUGH
1 Dec 1682	E	1	Edward Noel, 4th Viscount Campden Created Baron Noel of Tichfield 3 Feb 1681 and Earl of Gainsborough 1 Dec 1682 MP for Rutland 1661‑1679 and Hampshire 1679‑1681; Lord Lieutenant Hampshire 1676‑1687 and Rutland 1682‑1688	27 Jan 1641	8 Apr 1689	48
Apr 1689		2	Wriothesley Baptist Noel MP for Hampshire 1685‑1686; Lord Lieutenant Hampshire 1684‑1687 and Rutland 1685‑1688	c 1661	21 Sep 1690
21 Sep 1690		3	Baptist Noel	1684	17 Apr 1714	29
17 Apr 1714		4	Baptist Noel	1708	21 Mar 1751	42
21 Mar 1751		5	Baptist Noel	8 Jun 1740	27 May 1759	18
27 May 1759 to     8 Apr 1798		6	Henry Noel Peerages extinct on his death	1743	8 Apr 1798	54
16 Aug 1841	E	1	Charles Noel Noel, 3rd Baron Barham Created Baron Noel of Ridlington, Viscount Campden and Earl of Gainsborough 16 Aug 1841 MP for Rutland 1808‑1814	2 Oct 1781	10 Jun 1866	84
10 Jun 1866		2	Charles George Noel MP for Rutland 1840‑1841; Lord Lieutenant Rutland 1867‑1881 For information on his daughter, Lady Blanche, see the note at the foot of this page	5 Sep 1818	13 Aug 1881	62
13 Aug 1881		3	Charles William Francis Noel	20 Oct 1850	17 Apr 1926	75
17 Apr 1926		4	Arthur Edward Joseph Noel	30 Jun 1884	27 Aug 1927	43
27 Aug 1927		5	Anthony Gerard Edward Noel	24 Oct 1923	29 Dec 2009	86
29 Dec 2009		6	Anthony Baptist Noel	17 Jan 1950
GAITSKELL
23 Jan 1964 to     1 Jul 1989	B[L]		Anna Dora Gaitskell Created Baroness Gaitskell for life 23 Jan 1964 Peerage extinct on her death	25 Apr 1901	1 Jul 1989	88
GALE
4 Aug 1999	B[L]		Anita Gale Created Baroness Gale for life 4 Aug 1999	28 Nov 1940
GALLACHER
28 Mar 1983 to     4 Jan 2004	B[L]		John Gallacher Created Baron Gallacher for life 28 Mar 1983 Peerage extinct on his death	7 May 1920	4 Jan 2004	83
GALLEN RIDGEWAY
25 May 1616 23 Aug 1622	B[I] E[I]	1 1	Thomas Ridgeway Created Baron of Gallen Ridgeway 25 May 1616, and Viscount Gallen Ridgeway and Earl of Londonderry 23 Aug 1622 See "Londonderry"	c 1565	24 Jan 1632
8 Oct 1726	V[I]	1	Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Londonderry Created Viscount Gallen Ridgeway and Earl of Londonderry 8 Oct 1726 See "Londonderry"	c 1688	12 Sep 1729
GALLOWAY
19 Sep 1623	E[S]	1	Sir Alexander Stewart Created Lord of Garlies 19 Jul 1607 and Earl of Galloway 19 Sep 1623	c 1580	1649
1649		2	Sir James Stewart, 1st baronet		Jun 1671
Jun 1671		3	Alexander Stewart		Sep 1690
Sep 1690		4	Alexander Stewart	8 Jan 1670	26 Sep 1690	20
26 Sep 1690		5	James Stewart		16 Feb 1746
16 Feb 1746		6	Alexander Stewart	1695	24 Sep 1773	78
24 Sep 1773		7	John Stewart Created Baron Stewart of Garlies 6 Jun 1796 MP for Morpeth 1761‑1768 and Ludgershall 1768; Lord Lieutenant Wigtown 1794‑1806 and Kirkcudbright 1803‑1806; KT 1775	13 Mar 1736	13 Nov 1806	70
13 Nov 1806		8	George Stewart MP for Saltash 1790‑1795, Cockermouth 1805‑1806 and Haslemere 1806; Lord Lieutenant Kirkcudbright 1794‑1803 and 1820‑1828, and Wigtown 1807‑1828; KT 1814	24 Mar 1768	27 Mar 1834	66
27 Mar 1834		9	Randolph Stewart MP for Cockermouth 1826‑1831; Lord Lieutenant Kirkcudbright 1828‑1845 and Wigtown 1828‑1851	16 Sep 1800	2 Jan 1873	72
2 Jan 1873		10	Alan Plantagenet Stewart MP for Wigtownshire 1868‑1873; KT 1888 For further information on this peer, see the note at the foot of this page	21 Oct 1835	7 Feb 1901	65
7 Feb 1901		11	Randolph Henry Stewart	14 Oct 1836	7 Feb 1920	83
7 Feb 1920		12	Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart Lord Lieutenant Kirkcudbright 1932‑1975	21 Nov 1892	13 Jun 1978	85
13 Jun 1978		13	Randolph Keith Reginald Stewart	14 Oct 1928	27 Mar 2020	91
27 Mar 2020		14	Andrew Clyde Stewart	13 Mar 1949
GALMOYE
16 May 1646	V[I]	1	Sir Edward Butler Created Viscount of Galmoye 16 May 1646		1653
1653		2	Edward Butler	c 1627	Oct 1667
Oct 1667 to     1697		3	Piers Butler He was attainted and the peerage forfeited	1652	18 Jun 1740	87
GALPERN
10 Jul 1979 to     23 Sep 1993	B[L]		Myer Galpern Created Baron Galpern for life 10 Jul 1979 MP for Shettleston 1959‑1979 Peerage extinct on his death	1 Jan 1903	23 Sep 1993	90
GALWAY
3 Apr 1624	B	1	Richard Bourke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde Created Baron of Somerhill and Viscount Tunbridge 3 Apr 1624 and Baron of Imanney, Viscount Galway and Earl of St. Albans 23 Aug 1628 See "Clanricarde"	1572	12 Nov 1635	63
2 Jun 1687 to     12 Jul 1691	V[I]	1	Ulick Bourke Created Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount of Galway 2 Jun 1687 Peerages extinct on his death	c 1670	12 Jul 1691
25 Nov 1692 12 May 1697 to     3 Sep 1720	V[I] E[I]	1 1	Henry Massue de Ruvigny Created Baron Portarlington and Viscount Galway 25 Nov 1692, and Earl of Galway 12 May 1697 PC [I] 1692, PC 1715 Peerages extinct on his death	9 Apr 1648	3 Sep 1720	72
17 Jul 1727	V[I]	1	John Monckton Created Baron of Killard and Viscount Galway 17 Jul 1727 MP for Clitheroe 1727‑1734 and Pontefract 1734‑1747 and 1749‑1751	1695	15 Jul 1751	56
15 Jul 1751		2	William Monckton-Arundell MP for Pontefract 1747‑1748 and 1754‑1772 and Thirsk 1749‑1754	c 1725	18 Nov 1772
18 Nov 1772		3	Henry William Monckton‑Arundell MP for Pontefract 1772‑1774	16 May 1749	2 Mar 1774	24
2 Mar 1774		4	Robert Monckton-Arundell MP for Pontefract 1780‑1783 and 1796‑1802 and York 1783‑1790; PC 1784	4 Jul 1752	23 Jul 1810	58
23 Jul 1810		5	William George Monckton‑Arundell	28 Mar 1782	2 Feb 1834	51
2 Feb 1834		6	George Edward Arundell Monckton‑Arundell MP for East Retford 1847‑1876	1 Mar 1805	6 Feb 1876	70
6 Feb 1876		7	George Edmund Milnes Monckton‑Arundell Created Baron Monckton of Serlby 2 Jul 1887 MP for Nottinghamshire North 1872‑1885	18 Nov 1844	7 Mar 1931	86
7 Mar 1931		8	George Vere Arundell Monckton‑Arundell Governor General of New Zealand 1935‑1941; PC 1937	24 Mar 1882	27 Mar 1943	61
27 Mar 1943		9	Simon George Robert Monckton‑Arundell	11 Nov 1929	1 Jan 1971	41
1 Jan 1971		10	William Arundell Monckton‑Arundell	24 Sep 1894	15 Aug 1977	82
15 Aug 1977		11	Edmund Savile Monckton‑Arundell	11 Sep 1900	30 Jan 1980	79
30 Jan 1980		12	George Rupert Monckton‑Arundell	13 Oct 1922	30 Sep 2017	94
30 Sep 2017		13	John Philip Monckton‑Arundell	8 Apr 1952
GAMBIER
9 Nov 1807 to     19 Apr 1833	B	1	James Gambier Created Baron Gambier 9 Nov 1807 Admiral of the Fleet 1830 Peerage extinct on his death	13 Oct 1756	19 Apr 1833	76
GANT
23 Jun 1295 to     17 Mar 1298	B	1	Gilbert de Gant Summoned to Parliament as Lord Gant 23 Jun 1295 Peerage extinct on his death	1250	17 Mar 1298	47
GANZONI
17 Nov 1999 to     3 Dec 2005	B[L]		John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead Created Baron Ganzoni for life 17 Nov 1999 Peerage extinct on his death	30 Sep 1932	3 Dec 2005	73
GARDEN
3 Jun 2004 to     9 Aug 2007	B[L]		Sir Timothy Garden Created Baron Garden for life 3 Jun 2004 Peerage extinct on his death	23 Apr 1944	9 Aug 2007	63
GARDEN OF FROGNAL
16 Oct 2007	B[L]		Susan Elizabeth Garden Created Baroness Garden of Frognal for life 16 Oct 2007 PC 2015	22 Feb 1944
GARDINER
15 Jan 1964 to     7 Jan 1990	B[L]		Gerald Austin Gardiner Created Baron Gardiner for life 15 Jan 1964 Lord Chancellor 1964‑1970; PC 1964; CH 1975 Peerage extinct on his death	30 May 1900	7 Jan 1990	89
GARDINER OF KIMBLE
23 Jun 2010	B[L]		John Gardiner Created Baron Gardiner of Kimble for life 23 Jun 2010	17 Mar 1956
GARDNER
29 Dec 1800 27 Nov 1806	B[I] B	1 1	Sir Alan Gardner, 1st baronet Created Baron Gardner [I] 29 Dec 1800 and [UK] 27 Nov 1806 MP for Plymouth 1790‑1796 and Westminster 1796‑1806	12 Apr 1742	1 Jan 1809	66
1 Jan 1809		2	Alan Hyde Gardner He was to be promoted to Viscount Gardner (gazetted 30 Sep 1815 - issue 17066, page 1997) but died before the patent could be passed	5 Feb 1771	22 Dec 1815	44
22 Dec 1815 to     2 Nov 1883		3	Alan Legge Gardner On his death the peerages became either extinct or dormant	29 Jan 1810	2 Nov 1883	73
			For further information on this peerage, see the note at the foot of this page
GARDNER OF PARKES
19 Jun 1981 to     14 Apr 2024	B[L]		(Rachel) Trixie Anne Gardner Created Baroness Gardner of Parkes for life 19 Jun 1981 Peerage extinct on her death	17 Jul 1927	14 Apr 2024	96
GAREL-JONES
22 Oct 1997 to     24 Mar 2020	B[L]		(William Armand Thomas) Tristan Garel‑Jones Created Baron Garel-Jones for life 22 Oct 1997 MP for Watford 1979‑1997; Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1990‑1993; PC 1992 Peerage extinct on his death	28 Feb 1941	24 Mar 2020	79
GARIOCH
c 1180	E[S]	1	David of Scotland Recognized as Earl of Garioch c 1180		17 Jun 1219
17 Jun 1219 to     7 Jun 1237		2	John le Scot, Earl of Huntingdon and Chester On his death the peerage reverted to the Crown
GARLIES
19 Sep 1623	B[S]	1	Sir Alexander Stewart Created Lord of Garlies 19 Jul 1607 and Earl of Galloway 19 Sep 1623 See "Galloway"	c 1580	1649
GARMOYLE
27 Sep 1878	E	1	Hugh McCalmont Cairns Created Viscount Garmoyle and Earl Cairns 27 Sep 1878 See "Cairns"	27 Dec 1819	3 Apr 1885	65
GARNER
21 Feb 1969 to     10 Dec 1983	B[L]		Joseph John Saville Garner Created Baron Garner for life 21 Feb 1969 Peerage extinct on his death	14 Feb 1908	10 Dec 1983	75
GARNIER
22 Jun 2018	B[L]		Sir Edward Henry Garnier Created Baron Garnier for life 22 Jun 2018 MP for Harborough 1992‑2017; Solicitor General 2010‑2012; PC 2015	26 Oct 1952
GARNOCK
10 Apr 1703	V[S]	1	John Lindsay-Crawford Created Lord Kilbirny, Kingsburn and Drumry, and Viscount of Mount Crawford 10 Apr 1703. These titles were altered, 26 Nov 1703, to Lord Kilbirny & Drumry, and Viscount of Garnock	12 May 1669	24 Dec 1708	39
24 Dec 1708		2	Patrick Lindsay-Crawford	30 Nov 1697	24 May 1735	37
24 May 1735		3	John Lindsay-Crawford	5 Jul 1722	22 Sep 1738	16
22 Sep 1738		4	George Lindsay-Crawford He succeeded to the Earldom of Lindsay in 1749 with which title this peerage then merged and still remains so	c 1729	11 Aug 1781
GARNSWORTHY
19 Sep 1967 to     5 Sep 1974	B[L]		Charles James Garnsworthy Created Baron Garnsworthy for life 19 Sep 1967 Peerage extinct on his death	10 Dec 1906	5 Sep 1974	67
GARTHIE
3 Nov 1684	B[S]	1	George Gordon, 4th Marquess of Huntly 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 See "Gordon" - extinct 1836	c 1643	7 Dec 1716
GARVAGH
28 Oct 1818	B[I]	1	George Canning Created Baron Garvagh 28 Oct 1818 MP for Sligo 1806‑1812 and Petersfield 1812‑1820; Lord Lieutenant Londonderry 1830‑1840	15 Nov 1778	20 Aug 1840	61
20 Aug 1840		2	Charles Henry Spencer George Canning	18 Mar 1826	7 May 1871	45
7 May 1871		3	Charles John Spencer George Canning	2 Jun 1852	7 Feb 1915	62
7 Feb 1915		4	Leopold Ernest Stratford George Canning	21 Jul 1878	16 Jul 1956	77
16 Jul 1956		5	Alexander Leopold Ivor George Canning	6 Oct 1920	31 Oct 2013	93
31 Oct 2013		6	Spencer George Stratford de Redcliffe Canning	12 Feb 1953
GASCOIGNE
10 Jul 2023	B[L]		Benjamin Alexander Gascoigne Created Baron Gascoigne for life 10 Jul 2023	5 Mar 1983
GASCOYNE-CECIL
17 Nov 1999	B[L]		Robert Michael James Cecil, styled Viscount Cranborne Created Baron Gascoyne‑Cecil for life 17 Nov 1999 He succeeded as 7th Marquess of Salisbury in 2003	30 Sep 1946
GASK
17 Feb 1676	B[S]	1	John Murray, 2nd Earl of Atholl Created Lord Murray, Balvany and Gask, Viscount of Balquhidder, Earl of Tullibardine and Marquess of Atholl 17 Feb 1676 See "Atholl"	2 May 1631	7 May 1703	72
30 Jun 1703	B[S]	1	John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl Created Lord Murray, Viscount Glenalmond and Earl of Tullibardine for life 27 Jul 1696 and Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask, Viscount of Balwhidder, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, Earl of Strathtay & Strathardle, Marquess of Tullibardine and Duke of Atholl 30 Jun 1703 See "Atholl"	24 Feb 1660	14 Nov 1724	64
GAVRON
6 Aug 1999 to     7 Feb 2015	B[L]		Robert Gavron Created Baron Gavron for life 6 Aug 1999 Peerage extinct on his death	13 Sep 1930	7 Feb 2015	84
GEDDES
28 Jan 1942	B	1	Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes Created Baron Geddes 28 Jan 1942 MP for Basingstoke 1917‑1920; President of the Local Government Board 1918‑1919; Minister of Reconstruction 1919; President of the Board of Trade 1919‑1920; PC 1917	21 Jun 1879	8 Jan 1954	74
8 Jan 1954		2	Ross Campbell Geddes	20 Jul 1907	2 Feb 1975	67
2 Feb 1975		3	Euan Michael Ross Geddes [Elected hereditary peer 1999-]	3 Sep 1937
GEDDES OF EPSOM
4 Aug 1958 to     2 May 1983	B[L]		Sir Charles John Geddes Created Baron Geddes of Epsom for life 4 Aug 1958 Peerage extinct on his death	1 Mar 1897	2 May 1983	86
GEIDT
3 Nov 2017	B[L]		Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt Created Baron Geidt for life 3 Nov 2017 PC 2007	17 Aug 1961
GENEVILL
6 Feb 1299 to     1307	B	1	Geoffrey de Genevill Summoned to Parliament as Lord Genevill 6 Feb 1299 On his death the peerage became dormant		1307
GEOFFREY-LLOYD
6 May 1974 to     12 Sep 1984	B[L]		Geoffrey William Geoffrey-Lloyd Created Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd for life 6 May 1974 MP for Ladywood 1931‑1945, Kings Norton 1950‑1955 and Sutton Coldfield 1955‑1974; Secretary for Mines 1939‑1940; Secretary for Petroleum 1940‑1942; Minister for Information 1945; Minister for Fuel & Power 1951‑1955; Minister of Education 1957‑1959; PC 1943 Peerage extinct on his death	17 Jan 1902	12 Sep 1984	82
GEORGE
29 Jun 2004 to     18 Apr 2009	B[L]		Edward Alan John George Created Baron George for life 29 Jun 2004 Governor of the Bank of England 1993‑2003; PC 1999 Peerage extinct on his death	11 Sep 1938	18 Apr 2009	70
GEORGE-BROWN
6 Nov 1970 to     2 Jun 1985	B[L]		George Alfred George-Brown Created Baron George‑Brown for life 6 Nov 1970 MP for Belper 1945‑1970; Minister of Works 1951; First Secretary of State & Secretary of State for Economic Affairs 1964‑1966; Foreign Secretary 1966‑1968; PC 1951 Peerage extinct on his death	2 Sep 1914	2 Jun 1985	70
GERAINT
18 Jul 1992 to     17 Apr 2004	B[L]		Geraint Wyn Howells Created Baron Geraint for life 18 Jul 1992 MP for Cardigan 1974‑1983 and Ceredigion & Pembroke North 1983‑1992 Peerage extinct on his death	15 Apr 1925	17 Apr 2004	79
GERARD OF BRANDON
8 Nov 1645	B	1	Charles Gerard Created Baron Gerard of Brandon 8 Nov 1645, and Viscount Brandon and Earl of Macclesfield 23 Jul 1679 See "Macclesfield"	c 1618	7 Jan 1694
GERARD OF BRYN
18 Jan 1876	B	1	Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, 13th baronet Created Baron Gerard of Bryn 18 Jan 1876	12 May 1808	15 Mar 1887	78
15 Mar 1887		2	William Cansfield Gerard	21 Jun 1851	30 Jul 1902	51
30 Jul 1902		3	Frederic John Gerard	10 Nov 1883	12 Feb 1953	69
12 Feb 1953		4	Robert William Frederick Alwyn Gerard	23 May 1918	11 Jul 1992	74
11 Jul 1992		5	Anthony Robert Hugo Gerard	3 Dec 1949
GERARD OF GERARD'S BROMLEY
21 Jul 1603	B	1	Sir Thomas Gerard Created Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley 21 Jul 1603 Lord President of Wales 1610‑1618		15 Jan 1618
15 Jan 1618		2	Gilbert Gerard		1622
1622		3	Dutton Gerard	4 Mar 1613	22 Apr 1640	27
22 Apr 1640		4	Charles Gerard	1634	28 Dec 1667	33
28 Dec 1667		5	Digby Gerard	17 Jul 1662	8 Oct 1684	22
8 Oct 1684		6	Charles Gerard	1659	21 Apr 1707	47
21 Apr 1707 to     4 May 1733		7	Philip Gerard Peerage extinct on his death	1 Dec 1665	4 May 1733	67
GERMAN
24 Jun 2010	B[L]		Michael James German Created Baron German for life 24 Jun 2010	8 May 1945
GHISNES
24 Jun 1295 to     1323	B	1	Ingelram de Ghisnes Summoned to Parliament as Lord Ghisnes 24 Jun 1295 On his death the peerage became dormant		1323
GIBSON
31 Jan 1975 to     20 Apr 2004/td>	B[L]		Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson Created Baron Gibson for life 31 Jan 1975 Peerage extinct on his death	5 Feb 1916	20 Apr 2004	88
GIBSON OF MARKET RASEN
9 May 2000 to     20 Apr 2018	B[L]		Anne Gibson Created Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen for life 9 May 2000 Peerage extinct on her death	10 Dec 1940	20 Apr 2018	77
GIBSON-WATT
7 Sep 1979 to     7 Feb 2002	B[L]		James David Gibson-Watt Created Baron Gibson-Watt for life 7 Sep 1979 MP for Hereford 1956‑1974; Minister of State, Welsh Office 1970‑1974; PC 1974 Peerage extinct on his death	11 Sep 1918	7 Feb 2002	83
GIDDENS
16 Jun 2004	B[L]		Anthony Giddens Created Baron Giddens for life 16 Jun 2004	18 Jan 1938
GIFFARD
24 Jun 1295	B	1	John Giffard Summoned to Parliament as Lord Giffard 24 Jun 1295	1232	28 May 1299	66
28 May 1299 to     16 Mar 1322		2	John Giffard He was attainted and the peerage forfeited	1286	16 Mar 1322	35
GIFFORD
17 Dec 1694	E[S]	1	John Hay Created Lord Hay of Yester, Viscount of Walden, Earl of Gifford and Marquess of Tweeddale 17 Dec 1694 See "Tweeddale"	1626	11 Aug 1697	71
30 Jan 1824	B	1	Robert Gifford Created Baron Gifford 30 Jan 1824 MP for Eye 1817‑1824; Solicitor General 1817‑1819; Attorney General 1819‑1824; Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1824; Master of the Rolls 1824‑1826; PC 1824	24 Feb 1779	4 Sep 1826	47
4 Sep 1826		2	Robert Francis Gifford	19 Mar 1817	13 May 1872	55
13 May 1872		3	Edric Frederick Gifford VC For further information on this peer and VC winner, see the note at the foot of this page	5 Jul 1849	5 Jun 1911	61
5 Jun 1911		4	Edgar Berkeley Gifford	8 Mar 1857	29 Jan 1937	79
29 Jan 1937		5	Charles Maurice Elton Gifford	4 Mar 1899	16 Apr 1961	62
16 Apr 1961		6	Anthony Maurice Gifford	1 May 1940
GILBERT
16 May 1997 to     2 Jun 2013	B[L]		John William Gilbert Created Baron Gilbert for life 16 May 1997 MP for Dudley 1970‑1974 and Dudley East 1974‑1997; Financial Secretary to Treasury 1974‑1975; Minister for Transport 1975‑1976; Minister of State, Defence 1976‑1979 and 1997‑1999; PC 1978 Peerage extinct on his death	5 Apr 1927	2 Jun 2013	86
GILBERT OF PANTEG
30 Sep 2015	B[L]		Stephen Gilbert Created Baron Gilbert of Panteg for life 30 Sep 2015	24 Jul 1963
GILLFORD
17 Nov 1766	B[I]	1	Sir John Meade, 4th baronet Created Baron Gillford and Viscount Clanwilliam 17 Nov 1766 and Earl of Clanwilliam 20 Jul 1776 See "Clanwilliam"	21 Apr 1744	19 Oct 1800	56
GILLMORE OF THAMESFIELD
21 Feb 1996 to     20 Mar 1999	B[L]		David Howe Gillmore Created Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield for life 21 Feb 1996 Peerage extinct on his death	16 Aug 1934	20 Mar 1999	64
GILMOUR OF CRAIGMILLAR
25 Aug 1992 to     21 Sep 2007	B[L]		Sir Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, 3rd baronet Created Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar for life 25 Aug 1992 MP for Norfolk Central 1962‑1974 and Chesham and Amersham 1974‑1992; Minister of State for Defence Procurement 1971‑1972; Minister of State for Defence 1972‑1974; Secretary of State for Defence 1974; Lord Privy Seal 1979‑1981; PC 1973 Peerage extinct on his death	8 Jul 1926	21 Sep 2007	81
GISBOROUGH
23 Jun 1917	B	1	Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner Created Baron Gisborough 23 Jun 1917 MP for Westbury 1895‑1900 and Abercromby 1910‑1917	12 Oct 1856	23 Jan 1938	81
23 Jan 1938		2	Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner	6 May 1889	11 Feb 1951	61
11 Feb 1951		3	Thomas Richard John Long Chaloner Lord Lieutenant Cleveland 1981‑1996	1 Jul 1927
GLADSTONE
15 Mar 1910 to     6 Mar 1930	V	1	Herbert John Gladstone Created Viscount Gladstone 15 Mar 1910 MP for Leeds 1880‑1885 and Leeds West 1885‑1910; First Commissioner of Works 1894‑1895; Home Secretary 1905‑1910; Governor General of South Africa 1910‑1914; PC 1894 Peerage extinct on his death	7 Jan 1854	6 Mar 1930	76
GLADSTONE OF HAWARDEN
22 Jun 1932 to     28 Apr 1935	B	1	Henry Neville Gladstone Created Baron Gladstone of Hawarden 22 Jun 1932 Lord Lieutenant Flint 1915‑1935 Peerage extinct on his death	2 Apr 1852	28 Apr 1935	83
GLADWIN OF CLEE
28 Sep 1994 to     10 Apr 2003	B[L]		Derek Oliver Gladwin Created Baron Gladwin of Clee for life 28 Sep 1994 Peerage extinct on his death	6 Jun 1930	10 Apr 2003	72
GLADWYN
12 Apr 1960	B	1	Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb Created Baron Gladwyn 12 Apr 1960 MEP 1973‑1975 and 1975‑1976	25 Apr 1900	24 Oct 1996	96
24 Oct 1996 to     15 Aug 2017		2	Miles Alvery Gladwyn Jebb Peerage extinct on his death	3 Mar 1930	15 Aug 2017	87
GLAMIS
c 1445	B[S]	1	Patrick Lyon Created Lord Glamis c 1445		21 Mar 1459
21 Mar 1459		2	Alexander Lyon		1485
1485		3	John Lyon		1 Apr 1497
1 Apr 1497		4	John Lyon		1500
1500		5	George Lyon		Mar 1505
Mar 1505		6	John Lyon For information on the fate of his widow, Janet Douglas, see the note at the foot of this page	1492	8 Aug 1528	36
8 Aug 1528		7	John Lyon The peerage was forfeited in 1537 but restored in 1543	c 1521	1558
1558		8	John Lyon		17 Mar 1578
17 Mar 1578		9	Patrick Lyon He was created Earl of Kinghorne in 1606 with which title this peerage then merged	1575	1 Sep 1616	41
GLAMORGAN
c 1644 to     3 Apr 1667	E	1	Edward Somerset Created Earl of Glamorgan c 1644 He subsequently [1646] succeeded as 2nd Marquess of Worcester. The Earldom of Glamorgan probably extinct on his death	1601	3 Apr 1667	65
GLANDINE
23 Jun 1827	V[I]	1	John Toler, 1st Baron Norbury Created Viscount Glandine and Earl of Norbury 23 Jun 1827 See "Norbury"	3 Dec 1745	27 Jul 1831	85
GLANDORE
22 Jul 1776	E[I]	1	William Crosbie, 2nd Baron Brandon Created Viscount Crosbie 30 Nov 1771 and Earl of Glandore 22 Jul 1776 MP [I] for Ardfert 1735‑1762; Lord Lieutenant Kerry 1770; PC [I] 1766	May 1716	11 May 1781	64
11 May 1781 to     23 Oct 1815		2	John Crosbie MP [I] for Athboy 1775‑1776 and Ardfert 1776‑1781; PC [I] 1785 Peerage extinct on his death	25 May 1753	23 Oct 1815	62
GLANELY
28 Jun 1918 to     28 Jun 1942	B	1	Sir William James Tatem, 1st baronet Created Baron Glanely 28 Jun 1918 Peerage extinct on his death For information on the deaths of Lord Glanely and his wife, see the note at the foot of this page	6 Mar 1868	28 Jun 1942	74
GLANTAWE
18 Jul 1906 to	B	1	John Jones Jenkins Created Baron Glantawe 18 Jul 1906 MP for Carmarthen 1882‑1886 and 1895‑1900 Peerage extinct on his death	10 May 1835	27 Jul 1915	80
GLANUSK
26 Jan 1899	B	1	Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd baronet Created Baron Glanusk 26 Jan 1899 MP for Herefordshire 1865‑1885 and Hereford 1886‑1892; Lord Lieutenant Brecon 1875‑1905	7 Apr 1840	6 Jan 1906	65
6 Jan 1906		2	Joseph Henry Russell Bailey Lord Lieutenant Brecon 1905‑1928	26 Oct 1864	11 Jan 1928	63
11 Jan 1928		3	Wilfred Russell Bailey Lord Lieutenant Brecon 1928‑1948	27 Jun 1891	12 Jan 1948	56
12 Jan 1948		4	David Russell Bailey	19 Nov 1917	28 Jun 1997	79
28 Jun 1997		5	Christopher Russell Bailey	18 Mar 1942
GLASGOW
12 Apr 1703	E[S]	1	David Boyle Created Lord Boyle of Kelburn, Stewartoun, Cumbra, Largs and Dalry 31 Jan 1699, and Lord Boyle of Stewartoun, Cumbraes, Finnick, Largs and Dalry, Viscount of Kelburn and Earl of Glasgow 12 Apr 1703	1666	1 Nov 1733	67
1 Nov 1733		2	John Boyle	Apr 1688	22 May 1740	52
22 May 1740		3	John Boyle	4 Nov 1714	7 Mar 1775	60
7 Mar 1775		4	George Boyle Created Baron Ross of Hawkhead 11 Aug 1815 Lord Lieutenant Renfrew 1810‑1820 and Ayrshire 1820‑1842	26 Mar 1766	6 Jul 1843	77
6 Jul 1843		5	James Carr-Boyle MP for Ayrshire 1839‑1843; Lord Lieutenant Renfrew 1844‑1869 For further information on this peer, see the note at the foot of this page	10 Apr 1792	11 Mar 1869	76
11 Mar 1869		6	George Frederick Boyle MP for Bute 1865	9 Oct 1825	23 Apr 1890	64
23 Apr 1890		7	David Boyle Governor of New Zealand 1892‑1897 Created Baron Fairlie of Fairlie 23 Jul 1897	31 May 1833	13 Dec 1915	82
13 Dec 1915		8	Patrick James Boyle	18 Jun 1874	14 Dec 1963	79
14 Dec 1963		9	David William Maurice Boyle	24 Jul 1910	8 Jun 1984	73
8 Jun 1984		10	Patrick Robin Archibald Boyle [Elected hereditary peer 2005-]	30 Jul 1939
GLASMAN
4 Feb 2011	B[L]		Maurice Mark Glasman Created Baron Glasman for life 4 Feb 2011	8 Mar 1961
GLASSARY
30 Jul 1954	B	1	Henry James Scrymgeour‑Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee Created Baron Glassary 30 Jul 1954 See "Dundee"	3 May 1902	29 Jun 1983	81
GLASSFORD
5 Jul 1685 to     23 Nov 1703	B[S][L]	1	Francis Abercromby Created Lord Glassford for life 5 Jul 1685 Peerage extinct on his death	1654	23 Nov 1703	49
GLASTONBURY
19 Mar 1719 to     10 May 1743	B[L]		Ermengarde Melusina Schulenberg Created Baroness of Dundalk, Countess and Marchioness of Dungannon and Duchess of Munster for life 18 Jul 1716, and Baroness Glastonbury, Countess of Feversham and Duchess of Kendal for life 19 Mar 1719 Mistress of George I Peerages extinct on her death	1659	10 May 1743	83
20 Oct 1797 to     26 Apr 1825	B	1	James Grenville Created Baron Glastonbury 20 Oct 1797 This creation included a special remainder, failing his issue male, to his brother, Lieut. General Richard Grenville [who predeceased him] MP for Thirsk 1765-1768, Buckingham 1770-1790 and Buckinghamshire 1790-1797; PC 1783 Peerage extinct on his death	6 Jul 1742	26 Apr 1825	82
GLEAN-O'MALLUN
5 Oct 1622 to     after 1622	B[I]	1	Sir Dermot O'Mallun Created Baron Glean-O'Mallun 5 Oct 1622 Nothing further is known of this peerage		after 1622
GLENALMOND
27 Jul 1696 30 Jun 1703 to     14 Nov 1724	V[S] V[S]	1 1	John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl Created Lord Murray, Viscount Glenalmond and Earl of Tullibardine for life 27 Jul 1696 and Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask, Viscount of Balwhidder, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, Earl of Strathtay & Strathardle, Marquess of Tullibardine and Duke of Atholl 30 Jun 1703 Peerage extinct on his death	24 Feb 1660	14 Nov 1724	64
GLENAMARA
28 Jan 1977 to     4 May 2012	B[L]		Edward Watson Short Created Baron Glenamara for life 28 Jan 1977 MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central 1951‑1976; Postmaster General 1966‑1968; Secretary of State for Education & Science 1968‑1970; Lord President of the Council 1974‑1976; PC 1964; CH 1976 Peerage extinct on his death	17 Dec 1912	4 May 2012	99
GLENAPP
20 Jun 1929	V	1	James Lyle Mackay, 1st Viscount Inchcape Created Viscount Glenapp and Earl of Inchcape 20 Jun 1929 See "Inchcape"	11 Sep 1852	23 May 1932	79
GLENARTHUR
27 Jun 1918	B	1	Sir Matthew Arthur, 1st baronet Created Baron Glenarthur 27 Jun 1918	9 Mar 1852	23 Sep 1928	76
23 Sep 1928		2	James Cecil Arthur	2 Jun 1883	11 Dec 1942	59
11 Dec 1942		3	Matthew Arthur	12 May 1909	19 May 1976	67
19 May 1976		4	Simon Mark Arthur [Elected hereditary peer 1999-]	7 Oct 1944
GLENAVY
26 Jul 1921	B	1	Sir James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st baronet Created Baron Glenavy 26 Jul 1921 MP for St. Stephens Green 1898‑1900 and Dublin University 1903‑1916; Solicitor General [I] 1901‑1905; Attorney General [I] 1905 and 1916; Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1916‑1918; Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1918‑1921; PC [I] 1905	4 Apr 1851	22 Mar 1931	79
22 Mar 1931		2	Charles Henry Gordon Campbell	25 Oct 1885	30 Jul 1963	77
30 Jul 1963		3	Patrick Gordon Campbell	6 Jun 1913	9 Nov 1980	67
9 Nov 1980 to     Jun 1984		4	Michael Mussen Campbell Peerage extinct on his death	25 Oct 1924	Jun 1984	59
GLENAWLEY
16 May 1701	B[I]	1	Scrope Howe Created Baron Glenawley and Viscount Howe 16 May 1701 See "Howe"	Nov 1648	26 Jan 1713	64
GLENBERVIE
29 Nov 1800 to     2 May 1823	B[I]	1	Sylvester Douglas Created Baron Glenbervie 29 Nov 1800 MP [I] for St. Canice 1794‑1796; MP for Fowey 1795‑1796, Midhurst 1796‑1800, Plympton Erle 1801 and Hastings 1802‑1806; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1794‑1795; Vice President of the Board of Trade 1801‑1804; PC 1794; PC [I] 1794 Peerage extinct on his death	24 May 1743	2 May 1823	79
GLENCAIRN
28 May 1488	E[S]	1	Alexander Cunningham Created Lord Kilmaurs c 1469 and Earl of Glencairn 28 May 1488		11 Jun 1488
11 Jun 1488 to     17 Oct 1488		2	Robert Cunningham The peerage was annulled 17 Oct 1488		c 1490
c 1503		3	Cuthbert Cunningham Acknowledged or created (?) Earl of Glencirn c 1503		c 1538
c 1538		4	William Cunningham		Mar 1547
Mar 1547		5	Alexander Cunningham		23 Nov 1574
23 Nov 1574		6	William Cunningham		c 1580
c 1580		7	James Cunningham		c 1622
c 1622		8	William Cunningham		Oct 1631
Oct 1631		9	William Cunningham Lord Chancellor of Scotland 1661‑1664	c 1610	30 May 1664
30 May 1664		10	Alexander Cunningham		26 May 1670
26 May 1670		11	John Cunningham		14 Dec 1703
14 Dec 1703		12	William Cunningham		14 Mar 1734
14 Mar 1734		13	William Cunningham		9 Sep 1775
9 Sep 1775		14	James Cunningham	Jun 1749	30 Jan 1791	41
30 Jan 1791 to     24 Sep 1796		15	John Cunningham On his death the peerage became dormant	May 1750	24 Sep 1796	46
GLENCONNER
3 Apr 1911	B	1	Sir Edward Priaulx Tennant, 2nd baronet Created Baron Glenconner 3 Apr 1911 MP for Salisbury 1906‑1910; Lord Lieutenant Peebles 1908‑1920	31 May 1859	21 Nov 1920	61
21 Nov 1920		2	Christopher Grey Tennant	14 Jun 1899	4 Oct 1983	84
4 Oct 1983		3	Colin Christopher Paget Tennant	1 Dec 1926	27 Aug 2010	83
27 Aug 2010		4	Cody Charles Edward Tennant	2 Feb 1994
GLENDALE
11 Jun 1695 to     24 Jun 1701	V	1	Ford Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Werke Created Viscount Glendale and Earl of Tankerville 11 Jun 1695 Peerages extinct on his death	20 Jul 1655	24 Jun 1701	45

	The special remainder to the Barony of Gage created in 1790
	From the London Gazette of 26 October 1790 (issue 13249, page 646):-
	The King has … been pleased to grant to the Right Honorable William Hall Gage, Viscount Gage of the Kingdom of Ireland and Baron Gage of Firle in the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Dignity of a Baron of the said Kingdom of Great Britain, by the Name, Style and Title of Baron Gage, of Highmeadow in the County of Gloucester, with Remainder to his Nephew Henry Gage, Esq; and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten.
	Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata Noel, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough
	The following romantic tale appeared in the New Zealand Poverty Bay Herald on 20 January 1891:-
	The American papers bring news of the death in a Boston hospital of a poor Irish musician named [Thomas] Murphy, who was the hero of one of the most bizarre romances of the English peerage. In Rutlandshire there is a great family called Noel - or rather calling itself Noel, for it is really Noel only in the female line - and the head of it is the Earl of Gainsborough. The first Earl of Gainsborough, of the present recreated line, was strongly Evangelical, as was also his countess; but, as is not unfrequently the case, the austerity of their creed produced a reactionary effect on the mind of their heir, and the second Lord Gainsborough became a Roman Catholic.
	Without exactly bringing pressure to bear on his dependents at Exton [Park, the family seat], he set himself to work to show them how to become Catholics if they should feel like it; and with that view he established Catholic services with exceptionally good music at the hall. For an organist he obtained the services of one Murphy, and before two years were out his pride was lowered and his heart was broken by a telegram from his daughter, Lady Blanche Noel, announcing that she and Murphy were in lodgings in London, and wanted him to come and see them married.
	He went up to London and satisfied himself that, as far as the girl's actual honour was concerned, there was no overwhelming reason why she should not be brought back to her home and separated from the organist, who appeared to feel his position acutely, and only made matters worse by explaining that he really had been the passive agent in the matter. But Lord Gainsborough would not hear of separating them. For one thing, all Rutlandshire knew of the flight, and in the second place he perceived that his daughter's happiness was bound up in the marriage.
	He saw her married next day [6 March 1870], giving her away himself with his son by his side, and then packed them off to America. It is said by the Americans he disinherited her, but the peerage is a poor one, and he gave her what was reasonable. The Americans also in the poetic fancy, speak of her as beautiful. Poor thing she was plain and shy, and unless she had taken the bull by the horns, it is my belief that she would never have had a husband at all.
	In America she earned money by writing her recollections of English society, and by the time that vein was worked out she had acquired sufficient aptitude to become a hack writer for the Press, her articles always, of course, being gilded by her noble name. She died eight years ago [21 March 1881, at the age of around 35], and now the poor bewildered organist is dead, too, in a hospital [11 October 1890]. They lived affectionately, and struggled bravely. Perhaps she was as happy, or happier, than the rest of her kin. Her father never fully recovered from the blow, and died very suddenly some years ago in a four-wheeled cab.
	Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
	The 10th Earl was noted for his eccentricities and for being a constant thorn in the side of the Marquess of Salisbury, whose sister he had married in 1871. She was inflicted with the odd christian name - for a female - of Arthur, so named because the Duke of Wellington was her godfather. The Earl's eccentricity extended to his appearance and, among other peculiarities, he made a point of always wearing thick, knitted white gloves, winter and summer, as well as large blue goggles. Added to this, his high white hat and his gloves were always extremely shabby, and his voice was extraordinarily high-pitched.
	The Earl was noted for his intemperate language, full of profanities. On one occasion, he applied to the then Prime Minister, the Earl of Beaconsfield, for the mastership of the Royal Hunt, only to receive the following reply: 'I am sorry I cannot recommend you for the office, as the Queen dislikes having anybody connected with the Royal Household who is addicted to strong language. But I will gladly recommend you for the lord high commissionership to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.'
	This latter offer was meant by Beaconsfield as a joke, but the Earl accepted it in all seriousness. As a result, Beaconsfield, who had committed himself in writing to obtaining the post for the Earl, had no alternative but to fulfil his promise, and in 1877 the Assembly of the Church of Scotland was presided over by the Earl with due solemnity and decorum.
	Of a far more serious nature, however, was a criminal charge brought against the Earl in October 1889. The story of the Earl's trial can be found in all of the major British newspapers of the time, but most reports are very bland, confining themselves to the bare facts. Suffice it to say that the Earl was charged with 'lewd and libidinous behaviour towards Jane Ann Edwards Gibson, a girl under ten years of age'. The Earl swore that, in helping the girl off a wall, 'his hand had accidentally come into improper contact with her person'. Although few of the British papers comment upon the Earl's subsequent acquittal from the charge, The Washington Post was not so reticent, stating that 'the scene in the court room, when the jury brought in the verdict, was one rarely witnessed in a criminal court in this country [i.e. Scotland]. The guilt of the accused seemed so clearly established, even by such evidence as was allowed to filter through the objections of the six eminent counsel for the defence, that those present in the court room, many of whom were friends and relatives of the little girl whom the aged nobleman was charged with abusing, took no pains to conceal their disgust with the verdict. The announcement of the verdict was the signal for loud expressions of disapproval from the benches where the spectators were seated, and the frowns and threats of the presiding judge were of no avail to suppress the cries of "Shame", "shame" uttered by dozens of indignant persons. In London the news of the verdict is received with great indignation among the common people, and it is pointed out that had the accused been anything but a great nobleman the evidence brought out would have been sufficient to convict him a dozen times over.'
	In an editorial, The Scottish Leader stated that '… when one in high station is charged with a serious offence, the police and a certain section of society enter into a conspiracy of silence. The substance of the charge, and the fact that the matter was in the hands of the police, were well known for nearly three weeks before anyone ventured to associate Lord Galloway's name with it. Until today [i.e. the day of the trial] the readers of certain papers in Scotland must have been unaware that a Scottish Earl was implicated, so effectively does class bias set up a screen about any entitled offender. The Dumfries police, instead of following the ordinary course of the law, succumbed to Lord Galloway's name and rank, and, after attempts at secrecy and delay, handed the matter over to the Procurator‑Fiscal, It is easy to imagine how different and how vigorous their action would have been had the charge lain against a peasant instead of a peer; and had a peasant been tried, without he advantage of jury and the help of the most eminent Scottish counsel, it is not difficult to conceive a very different ending for the matter.'
	Notwithstanding this apparent close shave, the noble Earl was again in trouble less than three months later. Again he was acquitted, but again it was felt that his rank and wealth were the major reasons behind the acquittal. The following article appeared in the Dundee Courier and Argus of 24 January 1890:-
	The Earl of Galloway is either a much ill-used man or fortunate in being a Peer of the realm. Twice in the course of a few months has this sprig of our "old nobility" been arraigned at the bar of a criminal Court, but on each occasion he has managed to slip through the meshes of the law. If Lord&nsp;Galloway is an innocent man, it is incomprehensible why, under circumstances that forbid the idea of conspiracy, his name should be twice mixed up in the course of such a short time with charges pretty much alike in their abominable nature. Some months ago his Lordship was tried before the Sheriff at Dumfries, the accusation against him being that he had committed an indecent assault upon a little girl. The evidence against him was strong, but ultimately he was acquitted. The Saturday Review thereupon rushed to the assistance of maligned aristocrats. It endeavoured to show that in these degenerate times rank was a sufficient reason for a man to be branded with a crime. It more than insinuated that Lord Galloway was the victim of a vile plot. This outburst was as ridiculous as it was indiscreet. Even Lord Galloway's warmest sympathisers must have felt that the verdict was one which ought to be accepted in a spirit of thankfulness, not with bluster and bounce. Nor could the statement about the members of the nobility having to suffer from trumped-up charges have been more ill-timed, made as it was almost at the moment when Lord Arthur Somerset and his highly connected friends were fleeing from justice for a nameless crime [i.e. The "Cleveland Street Affair"]. Yesterday Lord Galloway was again called upon to answer to a criminal charge, and once again he was lucky enough to get off.
	At the Glasgow Central Police Court he was accused of having accosted and molested a girl of sixteen, named Margaret Brown, in certain public thoroughfares. The girl stated that while going on a message the prisoner came up to her and muttered some words, but in such a low tone that she could not tell what was said. A gentleman who happened to witness the scene advised the girl to call the police. Finding that the man was still dogging her footsteps, she spoke to a policeman. Some distance further on she stopped to look into a shop window, when the prisoner approached and stared into her face. This thing was repeated when the next street was reached. Two constables who had been following up the parties at this stage came forward and arrested the man. When taken into custody he tendered his card and left a pledge of £10. The evidence of the girl Brown, of which the foregoing is the substance, was corroborated by the two policemen. The only plea urged for the defence was that after whispering to the girl Lord Galloway had not addressed any remarks to her, but Stipendiary Gemmel declared the charge not proven. Coming so closely upon the Dumfries case, the result of this trial can hardly fail to create a bad impression upon the mind of the people as to the administration of the law when the offenders have wealth or title on their side. The idea of conspiracy in the Glasgow charge against Lord Galloway is out of the question. The initiative was taken by the policemen. Glasgow has for some time past taken a pride in dealing sharply with what are called gentlemen street pests, and exemplary sentences have been passed upon well-dressed men convicted of following and accosting girls in the streets. This was just what the two policemen saw Lord Galloway doing, though to them his rank and name were unknown. They saw him persist in his conduct like any other street pest of the "gentleman" type, and they apprehended the offender. It seems to us that the officers did no more than their duty. The other week the Queen's Bench Division declared that the fact of one man following another man, though without any word being uttered, constituted an act of intimidation. With greater force, therefore, might the law be expected to protect defenceless girls from molestation, whether pursued in silence or not, by cowardly fellows, no matter whether they happen to be clad in fustian or in proud possession of an Earl's coronet.
	The Gardner peerage
	The first Baron Gardner was a naval officer who was created Baron Gardner in the peerage of Ireland on 29 December 1800 and Baron Gardner in the peerage of the United Kingdom on 27 November 1806. He also represented Plymouth in the House of Commons between 1790 and 1796, and Westminster between 1796 and 1806.
	On his death in 1809, he was succeeded in the peerages by his son Alan Hyde Gardner, also a naval officer, who had previously married, in March 1796, a Miss Maria Adderley. In one version of the story which I have found, one night Captain and Mrs. Gardner were on their way to a party at the Earl of Strathmore's house when word arrived that Captain Gardner's presence was required at one of the Government offices. Mrs. Gardner continued her visit alone to Lord Strathmore's house, where she met a man named Henry Jadis, who made such an impression on her that when Captain Gardner was ordered to rejoin his ship, the pair became open lovers.
	In March 1805, Gardner sued Jadis for damages in an action for Criminal Conversation (i.e. adultery). The following is extracted from a report in The Times of 4 March 1805:-
	In the beginning of January 1802 Mrs. Gardner went on board the Resolution [her husband's command] and remained either on board or in port until the 30th of that month. It was not until the 7th of February, however, that the Plaintiff [Gardner] sailed finally from England. The evidence will make it appear, that after the 30th of January she could have no intercourse with her husband; but posterior to the 7th of February, it was an absolute impossibility. Toward the end of July, 1802, Captain Gardner returned, when he found his wife pregnant. The length of time that she had been in this situation must be unknown to him; she pretended she was advised, by her physicians, on account of her ill-state of health, not to cohabit with him; he consented, and he afterwards found she was delivered, on the 9th of December, of a male child. Comparing then the dates, it will be seen, in a moment, that this child could not be the Plaintiff's. On the 30th of January, above said, she quitted this ship; from this date, to the 9th of December, comprises a period of forty‑four weeks and three days; but if you extend the time to the actual day of his sailing, there is still an interval of forty‑three weeks and two days. Both of these exceed the time of gestation of woman by the laws of nature. There have been many contests on the precise limit on this subject … and [the time] at the furthest, is forty weeks #&8230;'
	Gardner therefore won his case, together with damages of £1,000, and was able to divorce his wife and remarry. The second marriage produced a son, Alan Legge Gardner, who ultimately succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Gardner in 1815.
	In 1824 the son of Jadis and Mrs. Gardner, named Henry Fenton Jadis, but who referred to himself as Henry Fenton Gardner, attempted to claim the peerages. The following is an extract from A Treatise on the Law of Adulterine Bastardy by Sir Harris Nicholas, published in 1836.
	A petition was presented to the King on behalf of the said Alan Legge Gardner early in 1824, praying His Majesty to order his name be placed on the Parliament Roll as a minor peer, or to take such other measures, as His Majesty might think proper, for declaring and recognising his right to the barony of Gardner. The petition was referred to Sir John Copley, the Attorney‑general, who reported it to be his opinion that "by reason of the absence and separation of Lord Gardner from his first wife during the whole of the period from the 7th of February to the 11th of July, 1802, whilst employed in His Majesty's service on a distant station, he could not be, and was not, the father of the child, born of the body of his said first wife on the 8th of December 1802 [sources differ between 8th and 9th December as being the date of birth of the child]; and consequently that the petitioner had established his right to the barony; but as he was informed by the solicitor of Mr. Henry Fenton Gardner that he intended hereafter to establish his claim, he suggested that the petitioner's claim be referred to the House of Lords".
	After a careful enquiry as to the period of gestation, during which the most eminent accoucheurs and midwives of the metropolis, and several married women were examined, the House of Lords resolved that "Alan Legge Gardner was the only son and heir male of the body of his father Alan Hyde Gardner Lord Gardner, and that he had made good his claim to the title, dignity and honour of Baron Gardner;" thus establishing the illegitimacy of Mr. Fenton Gardner, the other claimant.
	Alan Legge Gardner, the 3rd Baron Gardner, died in 1883, since which time the peerage has remained dormant, although it seems extremely likely that a number of heirs exist. The 3rd Baron Gardner died without male issue, so any heirs are to be found among the descendants of the younger sons of the 1st Baron. The second son of the 1st Baron was Francis Farrington Gardner, who died in July 1821. He had at least three sons, the second of whom, Stewart William Gardner, who took service in India, where he married a niece of the Emperor of Delhi, named Jane, but who was known in India as the Hurmoozee Begum. Apparently this marriage was made according to local rites and produced a number of sons. The eldest of these sons was named Alan Hyde Gardner, who in turn married an Indian woman. The difficulty for these descendants of the younger sons of the 1st Baron is to prove the validity of their marriages and, until this can be achieved, if at all, the peerages seem destined to remain dormant.
	The last news of any claims for the peerage that I can trace occurred in 1956, when the following report appeared in The Times:-
	Lieutenant-Commander David William Hyde Gardner, R.N., stated last night that he intends to apply for a dormant peerage already claimed by a 75-year-old man living in a village in India [see below for further details].
	Since the death of the third baron in 1883, the barony of Gardner has been dormant, although Burke's Peerage comments that "an heir obviously exists". Burke's says the right to the title has not been established. Both Burke's and Debrett's name as the claimant Alan Legge Gardner, of Village Bhnowta, Dadri, Dist.  Bulandshahr, United Provinces, India. He claims to be a direct descendant of the first Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter, in the county of Stafford, Admiral of the Blue, who died in 1809.
	Lieutenant-Commander Gardner, aged 43, married, with two sons, aged 17 and 10, and a daughter aged 15, is on the staff of the Commodore, R.N. Barracks, Lee-on-Solent. He lives at Oriel Cottage, St. Mark's Road, Alverstoke, Hampshire. He told a reporter: "I have never met Alan Legge [Gardner], who is a descendant of my great-great-grandfather's brother, Stewart William Gardner. Stewart William was in India as an ensign in the 28th Native Indian Regiment and married an Indian princess and had many sons.
	Stating that his claim would be made in due course, Lieutenant-Commander Gardner said: "Meanwhile I am going on with my search into the family background".
	The 75-year-old claimant who lived in an Indian village was, as stated in The Times story, Alan Legge Gardner. On 9 May 1956. the following story appeared in the Daily Mail, under the heading "Man in a Mud Hut Claims Barony":-
	A near-blind man of British descent living in a dusty hamlet on £4 a month is claiming a British peerage dormant since 1883.
	It takes several hours of trekking before you come to a huddle of mud huts in the village of Manota, Uttar Pradesh, one of which is occupied by 75-year-old Alan Legge Gardner, known around the district as "Lord" Gardner.
	Gardner, who shows visitors forms which he receives from Debretts as proof of his claim, says he is descended from one Alan Gardner, Admiral of the Blue, who was created a baronet in 1794.
	The Gardner family has been settled in United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh, almost since the beginning of the 19th century. Alan Legge Gardner lives in a mud-daub hut with iron-barred windows, containing little apart from a table, chair and bed. In the village and surroundings live another 60 members of the Gardner family.
	Gardner, who wears the simple cotton dhoti and the long-tailed flapping shirt common all over India, lives on chappatis, rice, and, on special occasions, a little curry to go with it.
	"Lord" Gardner and others of his family exist on State pensions and the income from a few acres of unpredictable farmland. Gardner says he is no longer interested in reviving the peerage but only in raising sufficient funds to pay 30s. monthly to keep each younger member of the family at school.
	At Lee-on-Solent last night Lieut.-Commander D.W.H. Gardner, of the Royal Naval Air Station [the claimant named in "The Times" report above], said: "I am a claimant - and I think the rightful claimant - to the title of Baron Gardner. We know about the claim from India, but I don't think he has a chance."
	Since that time, I have been unable to find any further activity towards claiming the peerages.
	Edric Frederick Gifford VC, 3rd Baron Gifford
	Gifford was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the 24th Foot during the Third Anglo‑Ashanti War of 1873‑1874 during which he was awarded a Victoria Cross. His citation reads "During the 1873‑74 Ashanti Campaign, Lieutenant Lord Gifford was in charge of Scouts after the army crossed the Prah, and he daily took his life in his hands, performing his dangerous duties. He ferreted out the enemy's intentions, discovered their positions and took numerous prisoners. His courage was particularly conspicuous at the taking of Bequah, Ashanti, into which he penetrated with his scouts before the troops carried it."
	Janet Douglas, widow of the 6th Lord Glamis, who was unjustly burned at the stake
	The following sketch of Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis, is taken from the July 1971 issue of the Australian monthly magazine Parade:-
	When Janet Douglas was burned at the stake on Edinburgh's Castle Hill one July day in 1537, the weeping crowd who saw her death agonies witnessed one of the most hideous travesties of justice in Scottish history. No one seriously believed that she had conspired to murder James V of Scotland, that she had poisoned her first husband, or was guilty of the black crimes of sorcery and treason alleged against her.
	The judges who reluctantly condemned her had pleaded for the royal mercy. Some of the greatest Scottish nobles had begged in vain that her life be spared. The perjured evidence of a disappointed lover, a "confession" wrung from a screaming boy under torture and the implacable vengeance of a king were more than enough to consign Janet Douglas to the flames.
	The remorseless power politics of 16th century Scotland claimed many a hapless victim, but none more tragic than the beautiful and ill-fated "Bride of Glamis". Born about 1500, Janet was a child of the house of Douglas, which for centuries had been famous in Scottish history for its pride, power and turbulence. She was a teenage girl when the Douglas influence reached its peak with the marriage of her brother, the Earl of Angus, to the widowed Queen Margaret, mother of the infant James V. For the next 15 years, with one short break, Angus and the Douglas clan were the virtual rulers of Scotland. Although Angus himself was driven into exile in 1522, he returned two years later, supported by Henry VIII of England, to clamp his authority even more fiercely on the boy king and his court.
	Janet took no part in the intrigues and brutalities by which the Douglases maintained their power over the jealous nobility and the terrorised young monarch. She grew up one of the most notable beauties of the age with an oval, ivory-complexioned face, a small figure, grey eyes and "the wit of an accomplished courtier". Piety and learning added to the esteem in which she was held and frequently she went on long pilgrimages to the religious shrines in England and Scotland.
	In 1520 she married John Lyon, Lord Glamis, by whom she had two sons, one of them a remote ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, who was to occupy the English throne more than 400 years later. For seven years the couple lived quietly in the ancient castle of Glamis before the storm that was eventually to send Janet to the stake burst. When her husband died in 1528, there was not the slightest suggestion that his death was due to anything but natural causes. The lord of Glamis had long been sickly, possibly the result of consumption. Janet had nursed him with devotion and none doubted the grief with which she saw him buried. The, within the next few months, two more events marked fateful stages in the destiny of Janet Douglas.
	The first was apparently trivial, when the young widow rejected a proposal of marriage from William Lyon, a distant kinsman of her dead husband. From a disappointed suitor, Lyon was converted into a bitter enemy whose cold-blooded perjury 9 years later finally sealed the doom of the woman he had loved.
	The second incident was played on the national stage when, in 1528, the seemingly unshakable domination of the Douglases over the government of Scotland suddenly collapsed in ruins. King James was now 16. For years he had been humiliated under the arrogant tutelage of the Earl of Angus and his clan and at last he had nerved himself to assert his independence. His flight from Angus's custody was a signal for every Douglas foe to rise in arms to his support and by the end of the year the royal triumph was complete.
	Angus and his chief adherents escaped to England, but on the rest of the hated family King James' vengeance fell with relentless fury. Dozens of Douglas estates were confiscated, and their owners hounded to death or exile. The king swore that nothing would satisfy him until the accursed name was rooted out of the Scottish nobility. Even in her widowed retirement at Glamis, Janet did not escape the frenzied persecution that engulfed her family. In 1529 she was ordered to appear before the Scottish parliament to answer charges of secretly and treasonably corresponding with her exiled brother, the Earl of Angus. Janet ignored the summons and since the evidence against her was almost non-existent, James contented himself with seizing her property and handing it over to one of his courtiers.
	But the king was only biding his time until more deadly charges could be raked up against her - charges that would horrify even those who still pitied her as a victim of royal malice. Three years later, by which time Janet had wed a second husband, Archibald Campbell of Skipnish, it seemed that James' opportunity had arrived.
	Spies planted in Janet's household came forward with their concocted stories. Bribes and threats produced other damning testimony against her. Early in 1532 she was arraigned on a charge of having caused the death if her first husband, Lord Glamis, "by potions, poisons, magical charms or other devilish arts of sorcery". Once more, however, King James had over-reached himself in his insatiable thirst for vengeance. The Scottish nobility and public alike simply refused to believe that the devout Janet Douglas was a witch and a murderer. Thirty of the lords and gentry empanelled as a grand jury to consider the accusation defied the king's fury by abruptly ending the "detestable proceedings". Twice James had been thwarted. He was determined that the innocent sister of "that prideful monster of treason", the Earl of Angus, should not escape a third time.
	Another four years passed before the blow fell, and now, blasted by betrayal and perjury within her own family, Janet's fate was certain. This time the chief informer was William Lyon, the rejected lover whose rankling jealousy had been further inflamed by Janet's marriage to his rival, Archibald Campbell. Ever since Angus's flight, King James had been haunted by fear of assassination at the instigation of the ruined Douglases. When, early in 1537, Lyon confronted the king with a story of a murder plot woven by Campbell and his wife, James listened with an eager ear.
	For months, said Lyon, Janet had been in secret communication with her brother in England and the king's death was to be a signal for a general rebellion by the Douglas chieftains and the nobles who followed them. What proof Lyon produced will never be known, but James was easily satisfied, confident that the royal judges would never dare to sweep aside an accusation of plotting against the life of the king.
	Within a few days Janet, her husband, her two young sons by Lord Glamis and an old priest in her household were seized and brought to Edinburgh under a guard of soldiers. There, Janet was formally arraigned on a charge of conspiring to murder King James by poison, and the others were accused of complicity in the same terrible plot. Once more the old stories were raked up by the king's busy lawyers - that Janet had killed her first husband by poison, that she was a dabbler in black magic, that she had incited her brother in his schemes of treason.
	Lyon's testimony formed the basis of most of the indictment, but he was so obviously actuated by vindictiveness that even the king saw that other evidence must somehow be found. It came from Janet's own son, the 16-year-old Lord Glamis, who had been separated from his mother and flung into the deepest and most noisome dungeon in Edinburgh Castle. First the terrified boy was forced to watch other victims have their bleeding limbs torn from their sockets on the rack. Then, when he still stubbornly refused to confirm Lyon's story, he was strapped to the rack himself until enough "evidence" had been extorted from his agonised screams to complete the indictment.
	It was June 1537 when Janet Douglas appeared before the Earls of Atholl and Buchan and the other judges specially appointed by King James to conduct the trial. Only at the reading of the "confession" signed by her tortured son did her stoic calm break down, but never for an instant did she waver in her plea of innocence. Nevertheless, she was convicted, and for the fearful crime of plotting the death of the sovereign the law allowed only one sentence.
	Solemnly the Earl of Atholl pronounced her fate. She was to be taken from prison to Castle Hill, there to be burned alive at the stake and her ashes scattered to the winds. That same night the judges sent two of their number to the King at Holyrood Palace urging him at least to delay the execution until the evidence could be further examined. Coldly James told them to do their duty. When other nobles of the court tried to add their appeals, the implacable king turned away and refused to listen to them.
	And so, on the morning of July 17, 1537, Janet Douglas was taken in a cart through an enormous crowd of spectators to the scaffold outside the walls of Edinburgh Castle. As the fire licked up her motionless figure, "hundreds knelt on the stones to pray for her innocent soul or wept and cursed against the villains who swore away her life".
	Her pitiful son, Lord Glamis, was tried shortly afterwards and condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered - a sentence that King James mercifully commuted to imprisonment for life. Her old household priest was beheaded, and her husband, Archibald Campbell, speedily joined his stepson in the castle dungeons. Campbell, however, did not remain a prisoner for long, for he had powerful clan kinsmen who soon contrived a plan for his escape. The captive reached the top of the battlements and was lowering himself down a wall by a rope when he fell and broke his neck on the rocks beneath.
	Only one grim footnote remained to the tragic story of Janet Douglas. Half crazed with remorse, William Lyon flung himself at the king's feet and retracted the accusation that had helped to send her to the fire. Without a flicker of emotion, James told him to keep silent and never show his face in the royal court again.
	William James Tatem, 1st and only Baron Glanely, and his wife
	Lord Glanely was killed when a German bomb struck the house in which he was staying temporarily during World War II. The Daily Telegraph of 29 June 1942 contained both the news of his death and an obituary, as follows:-
	Lord Glanely, the millionaire shipowner and sportsman, was killed in an air raid on a South Western town [Weston-super-Mare] early yesterday. He was 74 and leaves no heir.
	It was his second night in a house which he had taken for the summer only a few weeks ago. He moved in with a small staff from his country home at Exning House, near Newmarket.
	His valet, who had a room in the house, was also killed. The housekeeper was badly injured.
	"I am not so young as I used to be, but I hope to be able to have a restful month or two here", Lord Glanely said to a neighbour the evening he arrived.
	A man who pulled Lord Glanely's body from the wreckage said: "Right underneath there was another body, which I recognised as that of the valet".
	Lord Glanely's [edited] obituary in the Daily Telegraph reads:-
	Lord Glanely, the shipwrecked cabin boy who became a millionaire shipping magnate and owner of the Derby Winner Grand Parade, has died in an air raid. He was 74.
	His life story is one of the romances of industry. From being an office boy with a firm of Cardiff shipowners, he became in 17 years owner of a fleet of steamers. He also developed an interest in the turf and became one of the leading racehorse owners.
	He was the son of a master mariner of Appledore, Devon. Before he was 12, in his own words, he "hopped off from school" to join a ship on a trip round Cape Horn. During the voyage he was shipwrecked and caught yellow fever.
	In 1897 Lord Glanely, then Mr. William James Tatem, married Miss Ada Williams, a niece of the later Lord Merthyr, formerly Sir William Lewis. He named his first steamer Lady Lewis. It was so successful that it repaid its costs in three years.
	His fleet was eventually amalgamated into the Tatem Steam Navigation Co.
	In 1907, the year in which King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited Cardiff and opened the Queen Alexandra Dock, he was chairman of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Shipowners' Association. During the Coronation year, 1911, he was High Sheriff for Glamorgan. He was made a baronet in 1916 and was elevated to the peerage two years later.
	Lady Glanely died in 1930 [see the separate note beneath]. The only son died in 1905, and there is now no family, and no heir.
	Lady Glanely's death was reported in the Western Daily Press on 19 April 1930:-
	Lady Glanely, the wife of Lord Glanely, the well-known racehorse owner, died suddenly during Thursday night at Exning House, Exning, near Newmarket. She was 54.
	Lord and Lady Glanely had been staying with the Earl and Countess of Dunraven at Adare Manor, County Limerick, for some days and returned to London early last week. On Wednesday Lady Glanely went to Newmarket, her husband remaining in London.
	Although not feeling in the best of health on Thursday night, there was nothing in her condition to give cause for alarm until about midnight. In fact, Lord Glanely spoke on the telephone from London to his wife during the evening, and she then seemed quite cheerful.
	Later, however, Lady Glanely took a sudden turn for the worse, and an urgent call was put through to the Bath Club where Lord Glanely was staying, and he immediately left by car and dashed through the night to Exning House. He arrived, however, two hours after his wife had died.
	A friend of Lady Glanely told a reporter that she had never really got over the shock of a motor-car accident in which she was involved just before Christmas, 1928. "She had left Exning House by car for Bath", he said, "where Lord Glanely, who was at Cardiff, was to join her. Lady Glanely was accompanied by her maid and the chauffeur was driving the car. The car came into collision with a cyclist about two miles on the Newmarket side of Royston. The chauffeur attempted to avoid a cyclist who came out of a side turning, and the car skidded and overturned. Within a few seconds the car was a mass of flames, and Lady Glanely was trapped inside unable to open the door. Just then a man was passing, and he immediately rushed up and managed to drag Lady Glanely out of the debris. He also rescued the maid, and assisted the chauffeur, who had been unable to free himself. But for this man's timely intervention nothing could have saved Lady Glanely. The car was completely burnt, and Lady Glanely's luggage and jewels, estimated to be worth between £30,000 and £40,000 were lost."
	Lady Glanely, who was suffering from shock, was taken to a neighbouring house, and later went back to Newmarket. She suffered from shock for some time afterwards.
	James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow
	During his life, Glasgow maintained the largest stable of racehorses in the United Kingdom. At the same time, however, they were one of the least successful. He refused to name any of his horses and he was obstinately loyal to certain blood-lines that had been proved to be total failures. However, if a horse failed to perform to expectations, he had no hesitation in having the horse shot on the spot. On some mornings, after a trial gallop, up to seven horses were known to have been shot. Since none of the horses had ever been named, it was never quite clear if the right horses had paid the price of their poor performances.
	Glasgow was always unpredictable. On one occasion he argued with one of his trainers, James Godding, over what Glasgow perceived to be a tasteless remark. While escorting Glasgow on a tour of his stables, Godding pointed to one of the horses, 'That's old Volunteer. He's won 17 races and yet his owner's never seen him.' While the Earl puzzled over why an owner should take so little interest in such a successful horse, Godding added 'he's as blind as a bat'. Glasgow was outraged at this remark and immediately removed all of his own horses from Godding's stable.
	Glasgow did not normally show such sensitivity, however. He tended to treat people as brutally as his horses - when out hunting, it sometimes amused Glasgow to select one of his own servants as the quarry. One evening he dropped in late at the Doncaster Club and demanded a whisky. When he found out that there was no service because the steward had retired for the night, Glasgow stormed upstairs to the steward's quarters and set fire to his bed.

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