Debrett's Peerage

Debrett's Peerage

▪ British periodical
in full  Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 

      guide to the British peerage (titled aristocracy), first published in London in 1802 by John Debrett as Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Debrett's Peerage contains information about the royal family, the peerage, Privy Counsellors, Scottish Lords of Session, baronets, and chiefs of names and clans in Scotland. Although the revised 1990 edition contained a 1,336-page peerage and a 968-page baronetage, both illustrated, it gave only living collateral branches and did not supply full lineage, as does Burke's Peerage. Newly included were the names of adopted children, of illegitimate children, and of deceased issue of a surviving parent. Also listed were peerages and baronetcies that had become extinct, dormant, abeyant, or disclaimed.

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