The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14
List of Liberal Peerages gone over to the Tory Party in recent years
List of Liberal Peerages gone over to the Tory Party in recent years.
4 Dukes.
- Buckingham
- Newcastle
- Norfolk
- Sutherland
- Feversham
2 Marquesses.
- Bute
- Headfort
14 Earls.
- Abingdon
- Cottenham
- Dun raven
- Ellesmere
- Wemyss
- Fitzwilliam
- Gainsborough
- Hopetoun
- Radnor
- Ravensworth
- Southesk
- Wemyss
- Yarborough
- Zetland
15 Barons.
- Athlumney
- Ashburton
- Aveland
- Beaumont
- Brabourne
- Byron
- Castletown
- Congleton
- Denman
- Fitzhardinge
- Londesborough
- Lyveden
- Stanley of Alderley
- Tenterden
- Westbury
- Total 85 Peers, counting 70 upon a division.
- As a set off we find only 4 Peerages that have become Liberal, having been Tory.