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muriel_volestrangler

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14. No, there's barely been any hereditary lordships created in the last couple of decades

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #13)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:57 PM

Dec 2013

I think the Earl of Stockton, ie Harold Macmillan, was the last (there was the Thatcher baronetcy - so that spiv fool Mark is 'Sir', officially. At least when they sucked up to Thatcher by creating that, they knew they still had to keep him out of the Lords).

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