List of Earls

This is a list of present Earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Note that it does not include those still-extant earldoms which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with marquessates or dukedoms and are today only seen as subsidiary titles. For a more complete list, which adds these "hidden" earldoms as well as extinct, dormant, abeyant, and forfeit ones, see List of Earldoms.

Order of precedence

The general order of precedence among Earls is:
# Earls of England
# Earls of Scotland
# Earls of Great Britain
# Earls of Ireland created before 1801
# Earls of the United Kingdom and of Ireland created after 1801

Earls of England

#The Earl of Shrewsbury (1442) and Waterford (1446, in the Peerage of Ireland)
#The Earl of Derby (1485)
#The Earl of Huntingdon (1529)
#The Earl of Pembroke (1551) and Montgomery (1605)
#The Earl of Devon (1553)
#The Earl of Lincoln (1572)
#The Earl of Suffolk (1603) and Berkshire (1626)
#The Earl of Denbigh (1622) and Desmond (1628, in the Peerage of Ireland)
#The Earl of Westmorland (1624)
#The Earl of Lindsey (1626) and Abingdon (1682)
#The Earl of Winchilsea (1628) and Nottingham (1681)
#The Earl of Sandwich (1660)
#The Earl of Essex (1661)
#The Earl of Carlisle (1661)
#The Earl of Shaftesbury (1672)
#The Earl of Portland (1689)
#The Earl of Scarbrough (1690)
#The Earl of Albemarle (1697)
#The Earl of Coventry (1697)
#The Earl of Jersey (1697)

Earls of Scotland

"Note: The Precedence of the older Scottish earldoms is determined by the Decreet of Ranking of 1606, and not by seniority."

#The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (1398)
#The Earl of Erroll (1453)
#The Countess of Sutherland (1230 or 1275 or 1347)
#The Countess of Mar (1114 or 1457)
#The Earl of Rothes (1458)
#The Earl of Morton (1458)
#The Earl of Buchan (1469)
#The Earl of Eglinton (1508)
#The Earl of Caithness (1455)
#The Earl of Mar and Kellie (1404 or 1565)
#The Earl of Moray (1562)
#The Earl of Home (1605)
#The Earl of Perth (1605)
#The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1606)
#The Earl of Haddington (1619)
#The Earl of Galloway (1623)
#The Earl of Lauderdale (1624)
#The Earl of Lindsay (1633)
#The Earl of Loudoun (1633)
#The Earl of Kinnoull (1633)
#The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine (1633)
#The Earl of Wemyss and March (1633)
#The Earl of Dalhousie (1633)
#The Earl of Airlie (1639)
#The Earl of Leven and Melville (1641)
#The Countess of Dysart (1643)
#The Earl of Selkirk (1646, presently disclaimed by the Lord Selkirk of Douglas)
#The Earl of Northesk (1647)
#The Earl of Dundee (1660)
#The Earl of Newburgh (1660)
#The Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (1662)
#The Earl of Dundonald (1669)
#The Earl of Kintore (1677)
#The Earl of Dunmore (1686)
#The Earl of Orkney (1696)
#The Earl of Seafield (1701)
#The Earl of Stair (1703)
#The Earl of Rosebery (1703)
#The Earl of Glasgow (1703)

Earls of Great Britain

#The Earl Ferrers (1711)
#The Earl of Dartmouth (1711)
#The Earl of Tankerville (1714)
#The Earl of Aylesford (1714)
#The Earl of Macclesfield (1721)
#The Earl Waldegrave (1729)
#The Earl of Harrington (1742)
#The Earl of Portsmouth (1743)
#The Earl Brooke and of Warwick (1746, known as the Earl of Warwick)
#The Earl of Buckinghamshire (1746)
#The Earl of Guilford (1752)
#The Earl of Hardwicke (1754)
#The Earl of Ilchester (1756)
#The Earl De La Warr (1761)
#The Earl of Radnor (1765)
#The Earl Spencer (1765)
#The Earl Bathurst (1772)
#The Earl of Clarendon (1776)
#The Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (1776)
#The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1789)
#The Earl Fortescue (1789)
#The Earl of Carnarvon (1793)
#The Earl Cadogan (1800)
#The Earl of Malmesbury (1800)

Earls of Ireland

:"Earls of Ireland created after 1801 yield precedence to older Earldoms of the United Kingdom
#The Earl of Cork and Orrery (1620)
#The Earl of Westmeath (1621)
#The Earl of Meath (1627)
#The Earl of Drogheda (1661)
#The Earl of Granard (1684)
#The Earl of Darnley (1725)
#The Earl of Egmont (1733)
#The Earl of Bessborough (1739)
#The Earl of Carrick (1748)
#The Earl of Shannon (1756)
#The Earl of Arran (1762)
#The Earl of Courtown (1762)
#The Earl of Mexborough (1766)
#The Earl Winterton (1766)
#The Earl of Kingston (1768)
#The Earl of Roden (1771)
#The Earl of Lisburn (1776)
#The Earl of Clanwilliam (1776)
#The Earl of Antrim (1785)
#The Earl of Longford (1785)
#The Earl of Portarlington (1785)
#The Earl of Mayo (1785)
#The Earl Annesley (1789)
#The Earl of Enniskillen (1789)
#The Earl Erne (1789)
#The Earl of Lucan (1795)
#The Earl Belmore (1797)
#The Earl Castle Stewart (1800)
#The Earl of Donoughmore (1800)
#The Earl of Caledon (1801)
#The Earl of Limerick (1803)
#The Earl of Clancarty (1803)
#The Earl of Gosford (1806)
#The Earl of Rosse (1806)
#The Earl of Kilmorey (1822)
#The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1822)
#The Earl of Listowel (1822)
#The Earl of Norbury (1827)
#The Earl of Ranfurly (1831)

Earls of the United Kingdom

:"Precedence of Irish Earldoms shown in italics.
#The Earl of Rosslyn (1801)
#The Earl of Craven (1801)
#The Earl of Onslow (1801)
#The Earl of Romney (1801)
#The Earl of Chichester (1801)
#The Earl of Wilton (1801)
#:"The Earl of Limerick (Ireland)
#:"The Earl of Clancarty (Ireland)
#The Earl of Powis (1804)
#The Earl Nelson (1805)
#:"The Earl of Gosford (Ireland)
#:"The Earl of Rosse (Ireland)
#The Earl of Normanton (1806)
#The Earl Grey (1806)
#The Earl of Lonsdale (1807)
#The Earl of Harrowby (1809)
#The Earl of Harewood (1812)
#The Earl of Minto (1813)
#The Earl Cathcart (1814)
#The Earl of Verulam (1815)
#The Earl of Saint Germans (1815)
#The Earl of Morley (1815)
#The Earl of Bradford (1815)
#The Earl of Eldon (1821)
#The Earl Howe (1821)
#The Earl of Stradbroke (1821)
#The Earl Temple of Stowe (1822)
#:"The Earl of Kilmorey (Ireland)
#:"The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (Ireland)
#:"The Earl of Listowel (Ireland)
#:"The Earl of Norbury (Ireland)
#The Earl Cawdor (1827)
#:"The Earl of Ranfurly (Ireland)
#The Earl of Lichfield (1831)
#The Earl of Durham (1833)
#The Earl Granville (1833)
#The Earl of Effingham (1837)
#The Earl of Ducie (1837)
#The Earl of Yarborough (1837)
#The Earl of Leicester (1837)
#The Earl of Lovelace (1838)
#The Earl of Gainsborough (1841)
#The Earl of Strafford (1847)
#The Earl of Cottenham (1850)
#The Earl Cowley (1857)
#The Earl of Dudley (1860)
#The Earl Russell (1861)
#The Earl of Cromartie (1861)
#The Earl of Kimberley (1866)
#The Earl of Wharncliffe (1876)
#The Earl Cairns (1878)
#The Earl of Lytton (1880)
#The Earl of Selborne (1882)
#The Earl of Iddesleigh (1885)
#The Earl of Cranbrook (1892)
#The Earl of Halsbury (1898)
#The Earl of Cromer (1901)
#The Earl of Plymouth (1905)
#The Earl of Liverpool (1905)
#The Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1914)
#The Earl Saint Aldwyn (1915)
#The Earl Beatty (1919)
#The Earl Haig (1919)
#The Earl of Iveagh (1919)
#The Earl of Balfour (1922)
#The Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1925)
#The Earl Jellicoe (1925)
#The Earl of Inchcape (1929)
#The Earl Peel (1929)As the current Lord Chamberlain of the Household, The Earl Peel ranks higher in precedence than he would by virtue of the seniority of his Earldom alone.]
#The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1937)
#The Earl of Halifax (1944)
#The Earl of Gowrie (1945)
#The Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor (1945)
#The Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1947)
#The Earl Alexander of Tunis (1952)
#The Earl of Swinton (1955)
#The Earl Attlee (1955)
#The Earl of Woolton (1956)
#The Earl of Snowdon (1961)
#The Earl of Stockton (1984)
#The Earl of Wessex (1999)As a younger son of the British Sovereign, HRH The Earl of Wessex ranks higher in precedence than he would by virtue of the seniority of his Earldom alone.]

List of eldest sons or daughters of Earls in the Peerages of the British Isles

#James Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre, eldest son of the Earl of Shrewsbury
#Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley, eldest son of the Earl of Derby
#Charles Courtenay, Lord Courtenay, eldest son of the Earl of Devon
#Alexander Howard, Viscount Andover, eldest son of the Earl of Suffolk
#Peregrine Feilding, Viscount Feilding, eldest son of the Earl of Denbigh
#Henry Bertie, Lord Norreys, eldest son of the Earl of Lindsey
#Tobias Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, eldest son of the Earl of Winchilsea
#Luke Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, eldest son of the Earl of Sandwich
#William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, eldest son of the Earl of Portland
#Augustus Keppel, Viscount Bury, eldest son of the Earl of Albemarle
#Anthony Lindsay, Lord Balniel, eldest son of the Earl of Crawford
#Harry Hay, Lord Hay, eldest son of the Earl of Erroll
#Alistair Sutherland, Lord Strathnaver, eldest son of the Countess of Sutherland
#Susan of Mar, Mistress of Mar, eldest daughter of the Countess of Mar
#John Douglas, Lord Aberdour, eldest son of the Earl of Morton
#Henry Erskine, Lord Cardross, eldest son of the Earl of Buchan
#Hugh Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie, eldest son of the Eglinton
#Alexander Sinclair, Lord Berriedale, eldest son of the Earl of Caithness
#John Stuart, Lord Doune, eldest son of the Earl of Moray
#Michael Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass, eldest son of the Earl of Home
#James Drummond, Viscount Strathallan, eldest son of the Earl of Perth
#Simon Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, eldest son of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
#George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, eldest son of the Earl of Haddington
#Ian Maitland, Viscount Maitland, eldest son of the Earl of Lauderdale
#William Lindesay-Bethune, Viscount Garnock, eldest son of the Earl of Lindsay
#Simon Abney-Hastings, Lord Mauchline, eldest son of the Earl of Loudoun
#Charles Hay, Viscount Dupplin, eldest son of the Earl of Kinnoull
#Charles Bruce, Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl of Elgin
#James Charteris, Lord Neidpath, eldest son of the Earl of Wemyss
#Simon Ramsay, Lord Ramsay, eldest son of the Earl of Dalhousie
#David Ogilvy, Lord Ogilvy, eldest son of the Earl of Airlie
#John Grant, Lord Huntingtower, eldest son of the Countess of Dysart
#John Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Daer, eldest son of the Earl of Selkirk
#Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Lord Scrymgeour, eldest son of the Earl of Dundee
#Princess Benedetta Rospigliosi, Mistress of Newburgh, eldest daughter of the Earl of Newburgh
#David Hope-Johnstone, Lord Johnstone, eldest son of the Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
#Archie Cochrane, Lord Cochrane, eldest son of the Earl of Dundonald
#James Studley, Viscount Reidhaven, eldest son of the Earl of Seafield
#Harry Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rosebery
#David Boyle, Viscount of Kelburn, eldest son of the Earl of Glasgow
#Robert Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, eldest son of the Earl Ferrers
#Charles Finch-Knightley, Lord Guernsey, eldest son of the Earl of Aylesford
#Edward Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton, eldest son of the Earl Waldegrave
#Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham, eldest son of the Earl of Harrington
#Oliver Wallop, Viscount Lymington, eldest son of the Earl of Portsmouth
#Charles Greville, Lord Brooke, eldest son of the Earl of Warwick
#Frederick North, Lord North, eldest son of the Earl of Guilford
#Simon Fox-Strangways, Lord Strangways, eldest son of the Earl of Ilchester
#William Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, eldest son of the Earl De La Warr
#William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone, eldest son of the Earl of Radnor
#Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, eldest son of the Earl Spencer
#Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, eldest son of the Earl Bathurst
#George Villiers, Lord Hyde, eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon
#Alexander Murray, Viscount Stormont, eldest son of the Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
#George Herbert, Lord Porchester, eldest son of the Earl of Carnarvon
#Edward Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, eldest son of the Earl Cadogan
#James Harris, Viscount FitzHarris, eldest son of the Earl of Malmesbury
#Rory Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, eldest son of the Earl of Cork
#Sean Nugent, Lord Devlin, eldest son of the Earl of Westmeath
#Anthony Brabazon, Lord Ardee, eldest son of the Earl of Meath
#Benjamin Moore, Viscount Moore, eldest son of the Earl of Drogheda
#Jonathan Forbes, Viscount Forbes, eldest son of the Earl of Granard
#Ivo Bligh, Lord Clifton, eldest son of the Earl of Darnley
#Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, eldest son of the Earl of Bessborough
#Arion Butler, Viscount Ikerrin, eldest son of the Earl of Carrick
#Richard Boyle, Viscount Boyle, eldest son of the Earl of Shannon
#James Stopford, Viscount Stopford, eldest son of the Earl of Courtown
#John Savile, Viscount Pollington, eldest son of the Earl of Mexborough
#Charles King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, eldest son of the Earl of Kingston
#Shane Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, eldest son of the Earl of Roden
#David Vaughan, Viscount Vaughan, eldest son of the Earl of Lisburne
#Patrick Meade, Lord Gillford, eldest son of the Earl of Clanwilliam
#Randal McDonnell, Viscount Dunluce, eldest son of the Earl of Antrim
#Edward Pakenham, Lord Silchester, eldest son of the Earl of Longford
#Charles Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow, eldest son of the Earl of Portarlington
#Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, eldest son of the Earl of Mayo
#John Crichton, Viscount Crichton, eldest son of the Earl Erne
#George Bingham, Lord Bingham, eldest son of the Earl of Lucan
#John Lowry-Corry, Viscount Corry, eldest son of the Earl Belmore
#Andrew Stuart, Viscount Stuart, eldest son of the Earl Castle Stewart
#John Hely-Hutchinson, Viscount Suirdale, eldest son of the Earl of Donoughmore
#Frederick Alexander, Viscount Alexander, eldest son of the Earl of Caledon
#Jamie St. Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough, eldest son of the Earl of Rosslyn
#Rupert Onslow, Viscount Cranley, eldest son of the Earl of Onslow
#David Marsham, Viscount Marsham, eldest son of the Earl of Romney
#Julian Grosvenor, Viscount Grey de Wilton, eldest son of the Earl of Wilton
#Felix Pery, Viscount Glentworth, eldest son of the Earl of Limerick
#Jonathan Herbert, Viscount Clive, eldest son of the Earl of Powis
#Simon Nelson, Viscount Merton, eldest son of the Earl Nelson
#James Agar, Viscount Somerton, eldest son of the Earl of Normanton
#Lawrence Parsons, Lord Oxmantown, eldest son of the Earl of Rosse
#Dudley Ryder, Viscount Sandon, eldest son of the Earl of Harrowby
#David Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the Earl of Harewood
#Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund, eldest son of the Earl of Minto
#Alan Cathcart, Lord Greenock, eldest son of the Earl Cathcart
#James Grimston, Viscount Grimston, eldest son of the Earl of Verulam
#Mark Parker, Viscount Boringdon, eldest son of the Earl of Morley
#Alexander Bridgeman, Viscount Newport, eldest son of the Earl of Bradford
#John Scott, Viscount Encombe, eldest son of the Earl of Eldon
#Thomas Curzon-Howe, Viscount Curzon, eldest son of the Earl Howe
#Robert Rous, Viscount Dunwich, eldest son of the Earl of Stradbroke
#James Temple-Gore-Langton, Lord Langton, eldest son of the Earl Temple of Stowe
#Robert Needham, Viscount Newry, eldest son of the Earl of Kilmorey
#James Chester Campbell, Viscount Emlyn, eldest son of the Earl Cawdor
#Edward Knox, Viscount Northland, eldest son of the Earl of Ranfurly
#Frederick Lambton, Viscount Lambton, eldest son of the Earl of Durham
#Granville Leveson-Gower, Lord Leveson, eldest son of the Earl Granville
#Edward Howard, Lord Howard of Effingham, eldest son of the Earl of Effingham
#James Moreton, Lord Moreton, eldest son of the Earl of Ducie
#George Pelham, Lord Worsley, eldest son of the Earl of Yarborough
#Thomas Coke, Viscount Coke, eldest son of the Earl of Leicester
#Anthony Noel, Viscount Campden, eldest son of the Earl of Gainsborough
#William Byng, Viscount Enfield, eldest son of the Earl of Strafford
#Graham Wellesley, Viscount Dangan, eldest son of the Earl Cowley
#William Ward, Viscount Ednam, eldest son of the Earl of Dudley
#Colin Mackenzie, Viscount Tarbat, eldest son of the Earl of Cromartie
#David Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse, eldest son of the Earl of Kimberley
#Reed Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, Viscount Carlton, eldest son of the Earl of Wharncliffe
#Hugh Cairns, Viscount Garmoyle, eldest son of the Earl Cairns
#Philip Lytton, Viscount Knebworth, eldest son of the Earl of Lytton
#William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, eldest son of the Earl of Selborne
#Thomas Northcote, Viscount St Cyres, eldest son of the Earl of Iddesleigh
#John Gathorne-Hardy, Lord Medway, eldest son of the Earl of Cranbrook
#Alexander Baring, Viscount Errington, eldest son of the Earl of Cromer
#Ivor Windsor-Clive, Viscount Windsor, eldest son of the Earl of Plymouth
#Luke Foljambe, Viscount Hawkesbury, eldest son of the Earl of Liverpool
#Sean Beatty, Viscount Borodale, eldest son of the Earl Beatty
#Alexander Haig, Viscount Dawick, eldest son of the Earl Haig
#Arthur Guinness, Viscount Elveden, eldest son of the Earl of Iveagh
#Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith, eldest son of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith
#Fergus Mackay, Viscount Glenapp, eldest son of the Earl of Inchcape
#Ashton Peel, Viscount Cranfield, eldest son of the Earl Peel
#Benedict Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale, eldest son of the Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
#James Wood, Lord Irwin, eldest son of the Earl of Halifax
#Brer Ruthven, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra, eldest son of the Earl of Gowrie
#David Lloyd George, Viscount Gwynedd, eldest son of the Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor
#Norton Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne, eldest son of the Countess Mountbatten of Burma
#Mark Cunliffe-Lister, Lord Masham, eldest son of the Earl of Swinton
#David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, eldest son of the Earl of Snowdon
#Daniel Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, eldest son of the Earl of Stockton

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