List of peerages inherited by women explained

In the peerages of the British Isles, most titles have traditionally been created for men and with remainder to male heirs. However, some titles are created with special remainders to allow women to inherit them. Some of the oldest English baronies were created by writ and pass to female heirs when a peer dies with daughters and no sons, while some titles are created with a man's family in mind, if he is without sons and unlikely to produce any. The following is a list of women who have inherited titles with the British peerages.

14th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Other titles by marriage	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
21 October 1314	19 October 1356		Geoffrey de Geneville, grandfather	Roger Mortimer, son
6 June 1333	10 December 1363		William de Burgh, father	Philippa, daughter
4 August 1338	24 March 1399	Baroness Segrave by first marriage Baroness Manny by second marriage Duchess of Norfolk by creation	Thomas of Brotherton, father	Thomas Mowbray, grandson
31 May 1349	29 September 1349		Thomas Wake, brother	John, son
26 December 1352	7 August 1385	Countess of Salisbury by second marriage Princess of Wales by third marriage	John Plantagenet, brother	Thomas Holland, son
10 December 1363	5 January 1382		Elizabeth de Burgh, mother	Roger Mortimer, son
1372	3 April 1384		Walter de Manny, father	John Hastings, son

15th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Name	Other titles by marriage	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
1425 1437 de facto	1458			Donnchadh, father	Extinct
3 November 1428	1462			Thomas Montacute, father	Richard Neville, son
25 November 1431 suo jure	1485	Elizabeth FitzWalter	Lady Dinham by second marriage	Walter FitzWalter, 7th Baron FitzWalter, father	John Radcliffe, 9th Baron FitzWalter, son
11 June 1446	3 January 1448			Henry de Beauchamp, father	Anne Neville and Richard Neville, aunt and uncle
3 January 1448	20 September 1492			Anne de Beauchamp, niece	Edward Plantagenet, grandson
1450	1468	Anne Ferrers (Devereux)		William de Ferrers, father	Walter Devereux, husband John Devereux, son
30 December 1460	12 May 1529		Marchioness of Dorset by first marriage Countess of Wiltshire by second marriage	William Bonville, father	Thomas Grey, son
18 February 1461	12 May 1529			William Bonville, great-grandfather	Thomas Grey, son
14 January 1476	19 November 1481			John Mowbray, father	Extinct
14 January 1476	19 November 1481			John Mowbray, father	John Howard, cousin abeyant
16 July 1491	27 August 1507			William Herbert, father	Henry Somerset, son

16th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
1513	1539 attainted died 27 May 1541	Edward Plantagenet, brother	Forfeit
1526	19 September 1580	William Willoughby, father	Peregrine Bertie, son
13 March 1540	17 April 1543 dispossessed died 28 January 1571	Henry Bourchier, father	Walter Devereux, cousin
14 April 1587	1 May 1591	Edward Manners, father	William Cecil, son

17th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Other titles by marriage	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
30 October 1605 claimed 1628	22 March 1676	Countess of Dorset by first marriage Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery by second marriage	George Clifford, father	Nicholas Tufton, grandson
14 October 1618	17 September 1637	Countess of March Duchess of Lennox by first marriage Countess of Abercorn by second marriage	Gervase Clifton, father	James Stewart, son
1632	October 1649	Duchess of Buckingham by first marriage Countess of Antrim Marchioness of Antrim by second marriage	Francis Manners, father	George Villiers, son
1651	24 May 1654		Gilbert Talbot, father	Henry Howard, son
12 September 1651	1698 resigned died 17 October 1716		William Hamilton, uncle	James Hamilton, son
22 November 1651	11 March 1661	Countess of Tarras	Francis Scott, father	Anne Scott, sister
11 September 1653	5 June 1698		William Murray, father	Lionel Tollemache, son
11 March 1661	6 February 1732	Duchess of Buccleuch by creation	Mary Scott, sister	Francis Scott, grandson
25 March 1667	23 April 1686		Thomas Wentworth, grandfather	Anne Lovelace, aunt
July 1679	11 March 1705	Lady Burntisland by first marriage Countess of Cromartie by second marriage	David Wemyss, father	David Wemyss, son
28 July 1685	7 February 1723		Henry Bennet, father	Charles FitzRoy, son
23 April 1686	1697		Henrietta Wentworth, niece	Martha Johnson, granddaughter
19 June 1697	17 November 1705		Henry Mordaunt, father	Charles Mordaunt, cousin
1697 confirmed 1702	1745		Anne Lovelace, grandmother	Edward Noel, first cousin twice removed

18th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Other titles by marriage	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
1714	26 June 1718	Countess of Anglesey by first marriage Baroness Ashburnham by second marriage	William Stanley, father	Henrietta Ashburnham, daughter
1717	19 August 1758		Charles Hay, brother	James Hay, great-nephew
25 December 1717	13 March 1741		Robert Shirley, grandfather	Abeyant (later Charlotte Townshend, daughter)
26 June 1718	1732		Henrietta Stanley, mother	James Stanley, great-uncle
16 June 1722	24 October 1733		John Churchill, father	Charles Spencer, nephew
29 January 1737	5 December 1756		George Douglas-Hamilton, father	Mary O'Brien, daughter
5 June 1740	10 January 1797		Henry Grey, grandfather	Extinct
5 June 1740	10 January 1797		Henry Grey, grandfather	Amabel Hume-Campbell, daughter
14 September 1749	1752	Countess Temple by creation	Richard Temple, brother	Richard Grenville-Temple, son
1749	3 September 1770		Elizabeth Compton, mother abeyant 1741-1749	George Townshend, son
3 October 1754	3 September 1770		James Compton, father	George Townshend, son
7 February 1750	5 December 1776		Algernon Seymour, father	Hugh Percy, son
15 December 1753	8 December 1754			William Cavendish, son
5 December 1756	10 May 1791		Anne O'Brien, mother	Mary FitzMaurice, daughter
8 January 1764	13 October 1805		James Murray, father	John Murray, son
1766	29 January 1839		William Sutherland, father	George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, son
27 April 1782	14 March 1793		William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, father	George Talbot Rice, son
16 May 1778	27 January 1784		Robert Darcy, father	George Osborne, son
28 April 1786	8 January 1840		James Mure-Campbell, father	George Rawdon-Hastings, son
2 October 1789	11 April 1808		Francis Hastings, brother	Francis Rawdon-Hastings, son
10 May 1791	30 December 1831		Mary O'Brien, mother	Thomas FitzMaurice, grandson

19th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Title	Other titles by marriage	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
1806	9 January 1831			abeyant 1687-1806 (previously George Villiers, cousin)	Henry FitzGerald-de Ros, son
29 October 1810	18 November 1858			Henry Yelverton, father	Henry Rawdon-Hastings, son
17 June 1813	12 April 1823			Charles Middleton, father	Charles Noel, son
25 February 1816	2 January 1831			Chichester Skeffington, father	John Skeffington, son
9 March 1821	22 September 1840			Wilbraham Tollemache, brother	Lionel Tollemache, grandson
10 March 1823	11 November 1867		Comtesse de Flahault	George Elphinstone, father	Extinct
1837	11 November 1867	7th Lady Nairne not recognised	Comtesse de Flahault	William Nairne, cousin	Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, daughter
14 February 1835	22 January 1855			Francis Basset, father	Extinct
1856	16 May 1860			Thomas Noel, uncle abeyant 1815 - 1856	Byron Noel-King, grandson
1868	23 January 1874			Henry Rawdon-Hastings, brother	Charles Clifton, son
1888	17 November 1926			Sackville Lane-Fox, father abeyant 1895-1896	Sackville Pelham, son
1903	17 November 1926			Joan Neville abeyant 1490 - 1903	Sackville Pelham, son
26 March 1889	17 October 1944			Richard Temple-Grenville, father	Mary Freeman-Grenville, granddaughter
1896	31 August 1971			Miles Stapleton, father abeyant 1888-1892	Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, son

20th century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Title	Name	Other titles by marriage	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
1903	29 April 1929				Sackville Lane-Fox, father abeyant 1490-1903	Mervyn Herbert, son
28 August 1906	18 June 1917				Ralph King-Milbanke, father	Anne Blunt, aunt
29 April 1907	4 May 1939				Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, father	Una Ross, daughter abeyant 1939 - 1943
1908	28 August 1945				Marmaduke Constable-Maxwell, father	Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, son
16 January 1909	21 December 1919			Lady William Cecil	William Tyssen-Amherst, father	William Alexander Evering Cecil, son
12 January 1912	26 February 1959			HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught	Alexander Duff, father	James Carnegie, nephew
25 March 1913	24 December 1936				Garnet Joseph Wolseley, father	Extinct
21 January 1914	18 August 1926	2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal	Margaret Howard		Donald Alexander Smith, father	Donald Sterling Palmer Howard, son
14 November 1914	9 October 1944				Frederick Roberts, father	Ada Lewin, sister
12 November 1915	30 September 1969				James Ogilvie-Grant, father	Ian Ogilvie-Grant, son
18 June 1917	15 December 1917				Ada King-Milbanke, niece	Judith Blunt-Lytton, daughter
15 December 1917	8 August 1957				Anne Blunt, mother	Noel Lytton, son
3 July 1918	20 July 1958				David Alfred Thomas, father	Extinct
17 May 1920	24 February 1960				Charles Clifton, uncle	Barbara Abney-Hastings, daughter
7 March 1921					Charles Rawdon-Hastings, uncle abeyant 1920-1921	Abeyant
7 March 1921					Ferdinando Stanley abeyant 1594-1921	Abeyant
23 February 1921	12 December 1974				Ferdinando Stanley abeyant 1594-1921	Jestyn Philipps, son
23 February 1921	12 December 1974	22nd Baroness Hungerford 21st Baroness de Moleyns			Charles Clifton, uncle abeyant 1920-1921	Jestyn Philipps, son
20 March 1925	9 February 1966			Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston created for life	George Curzon, father	Nicholas Mosley, nephew
1935	2 June 1975				William Tollemache, uncle	Rosamund Greaves, daughter
24 January 1941	16 May 1978				Josslyn Hay, father	Merlin Hay, son
March 1943	24 February 2008				Mervyn Herbert, father	Caspar Ingrams, son
1943	9 October 1956				Mary Dawson, mother	Georgiana Maxwell, granddaughter abeyant 1956 - 1958
17 October 1944	30 September 2012				Mary Morgan-Grenville, grandmother	Teresa Freeman-Grenville, daughter
9 October 1944	1955				Aileen Roberts, sister	Extinct
16 April 1956	17 April 1982			Countess of Carlisle by first marriage Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley by second marriage	Walter Hore-Ruthven, father	Charles Howard, son
1958	21 April 1983				Una Ross, grandmother abeyant 1956-1958	Peter Maxwell, son
24 February 1960	1 November 2002				Edith Abney-Hastings, mother	Michael Abney-Hastings, son
1 February 1963	9 December 2019				George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, uncle	Alistair Charles St. Clair Sutherland, eldest son
30 December 1965	6 July 1995				William Forbes-Sempill, father	James Chant-Sempill, son
26 May 1966	21 September 1974		Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer		Arthur George Keith-Falconer, brother	James Ian Baird, son
22 July 1969	4 May 1974				John Kemeys-Tynte, brother	Myrtle Robertson, daughter abeyant 1974 - 1990
1970	25 December 2012				Thomas Brand, father abeyant 1965-1970	James Douglas-Home, son
22 April 1971	1990				Charles Portal, father	Extinct
19 April 1972	27 May 2002				Ferdinando Dudley Henry Lea Smith, brother	Jim Anthony Hill Wallace, son
31 January 1975	25 November 2014			Baroness Cowdrey of Tonbridge	Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, father	Mary Mumford, sister
21 April 1975					James of Mar, father
1982	11 March 2005				John Drummond, father	Adam Drummond, son
29 March 1983		28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby			James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, father
1975	2003				Wenefryde Scott, mother	Katherine Grant, sister
27 August 1979	13 June 2017				Louis Mountbatten, father	Norton Knatchbull, son
31 August 1979	3 September 2024				Alexander Fraser, father	Katharine Fraser, daughter
19 December 1985			Mary Penelope Verney-Cave
1990	15 May 2000				Elisabeth Kemeys-Tynte, mother abeyant 1974 - 1990	Myles Robertson, son
30 June 1995	23 January 2023				Vera Ruby Williams, mother abeyant 1992-1995	Rupert Kirkham, son
May 1999					John FitzRoy, uncle abeyant 1936-1999

21st century

Date inherited	Date of death or other loss of title	Name	Other titles	Preceded in title by	Succeeded in title by
14 October 2002			formerly Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, but title changed after her gender transition.	Roger Simon, father
17 December 2003	8 November 2011			Rosamund Greaves, sister	John Grant, son
25 June 2004	13 July 2024	Mary Hazel Caridwen Czernin		John Osmael Scott-Ellis, father abeyant 1999–2004	Peter Czernin, son
17 May 2012	2 March 2013			Sackville George Pelham, father abeyant 1948–2012	titles abeyant
30 September 2012				Mary Freeman-Grenville, mother
8 May 2014		Emily Douglas-Home		James Douglas-Home, father
25 November 2014	7 April 2017				Anne Cowdrey, sister	Jane Kerr, sister
7 April 2017					Mary Mumford, sister
18 September 2019		Victoria Bruce-Winkler			Robert Bruce, father
3 September 2024				Flora Fraser, mother