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Tables Showing The Number of Peers For 1790-1820
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21
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6
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86
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13
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81
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207
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19
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11
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87
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15
|
125
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257
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17
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12
|
94
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23
|
138
|
284
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18
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17
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100
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22
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134
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291
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These totals do not
included peeresses in their own right.
1790 9 (nine) peeresses
1800 10 peeresses
1810 8 peeresses.
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88
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16
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72
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|
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85
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23
|
62
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|
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80
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26
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54
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208
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41
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167
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|
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221
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44
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177
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|
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217
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42
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175
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488
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145
|
121
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572
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139
|
101
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632
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137
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94
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Despite the innumerable fictional dukes and earls, the number
of actual peers was not very high at this time. Baronets were
neither peers nor noble, though the dignity was hereditary.
Only the peers and their wives were noble, all others were commoners,
including the oldest son and heir of a duke.
Some statisticians think there was no more than ten thousand
people in all the aristocracy, though some think the number is
twice as large. The aristocracy was made up of the families of
the nobles, all others of the well bred group being considered
gentry.
Beckett, J.V. The Aristocracy in England 1660-1914.
Oxford,England:Basil Blackwell, 1986*
Cannon, John. Aristocratic Century. Cambridge University Press.
, 1984
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