HEIR-LESS PEERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)

HEIR-LESS PEERS

TITLES DYING OUT The news that Lord and Lady Lcconfield, who are not blessed With children, have adopted a boy and a girl is a. reminder of the fact that far moro peers than ono would imagine are without sons to succeed to their titles. There are, in all, a few over 700 peers of the realm. Actually, 218 are sonless. Included are Lords Stam--1 ordham, private secretary to the King, Crewe, Buxton, Desart, Cn\e I Lord Chancellor), Cecil, Gladstone, Grey of Falloden, Haldane, Knollys, Lee, Wolverhampton, Anslow, Ashfield, Dyng of Vimy, Daw r son, Emmott, Ernie, Olivier, tWid Southwark. These peerages consequently will expire wnh Cieir present holders, and some of them are very shortlived peerages. The heir to the Earl of Balfour is his brother, Mr Gerald Balfour, and the Earl °f.Oxford’s heir is his child grandson. Within recent years, in the absence of heirs, tho Morley, Milner, Courtney and Bryce peerages have ceased to be.