- The Complete Peerage
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The Complete Peerage Author(s) G. E. Cokayne et al. Country United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(From 1921, United Kingdom and Ireland)Language English Genre(s) Genealogy ISBN ISBN 0-904387-82-8 and ISBN 0-7509-0154-3 OCLC Number 60066829 Dewey Decimal 929.7/2 19 LC Classification CS421 .C7 1982 The Complete Peerage (full title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs et al.) is a comprehensive and magisterial work on the titled aristocracy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and, later, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The Complete Peerage was first published in eight volumes between 1887 and 1898 by George Edward Cokayne = G. E. C.). This version was effectively replaced by a new and enlarged edition between 1910 and 1959 edited successively by Vicary Gibbs (Cokayne's nephew), H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Lord Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. The revised edition (published by the St. Catherine Press Limited), took the form of twelve volumes with volume twelve being issued in two parts. Volume thirteen was issued in 1940, not as part of the alphabetical sequence, but as a supplement covering creations and promotions within the peerage between 1900 and 1938.
It has subsequently been reprinted in a number of formats, most notably by Alan Sutton Publishers who reduced it in size to six volumes in a photographically reduced format (this contains four page images on each smaller page and the text is difficult to read for some people). It is also available on CD. A further reprint in six volumes appeared in 2000, together with Volume 14, which is an appendix, updating briefly from original publication (1910–1938) to 1995.
Volumes
Volume Pub
dateEditors[1] I. Ab-Adam to Basing 1910 II. Bass to Canning 1912 III. Canonteign to Cutts 1913 Hon. Vicary Gibbs with the assistance of H. A. Doubleday IV. Dacre to Dysart 1916 Hon. Vicary Gibbs with the assistance of H. A. Doubleday V. Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat 1921/6 Hon. Vicary Gibbs with the assistance of H. A. Doubleday VI. Gordon to Hustpierpoint 1926 H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden VII. Husee to Lincolnshire 1929 H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden VIII. Lindley to Moate 1932 H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden IX. Moels to Nuneham 1936 H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden X. Oakham to Richmond 1945 H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden XI Rickerton to Sisonby 1949 G. H. White XII (part 1) Skelmersdale to Towton 1953 G. H. White XII (part 2) Tracton to Zouche 1959 G. H. White XIII. Peers created 1901 to 1938 1940 H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden XIV. Addenda & corrigenda 2000 Peter W. Hammond Volumes 1–5 have the title Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant, and volumes 6–13: The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times.[1]
References
External links
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed (1910). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing). 1. London: The St. Catherine Press, ltd.. http://www.archive.org/details/completepeerageo01coka.
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed (1912). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Bass to Canning). 2. London: The St. Catherine Press, ltd.. http://www.archive.org/details/completepeerageo02coka.
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed (1913). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Canonteign to Cutts). 3. London: The St. Catherine Press, ltd.. http://www.archive.org/details/completepeerageo03coka.
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed (1916). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Dacre to Dysart). 4. London: The St. Catherine Press, ltd.. http://www.archive.org/details/completepeerageo04coka.
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