List of baronies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland


The peerage is the collective term for all those holding titles of nobility of all degrees. The term superseded the term baronage used of the feudal era.
A barony is a rank or dignity of a man or a woman who is a participant of a small rank of a British nobility.

Barony categories

Life baronies

The life baronies fall into two classes:
All life baronies are in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and rank amongst hereditary baronies in that peerage by date of creation.

Hereditary baronies

The hereditary baronies fall into five classes:
These have precedence in the order named, except that baronies of Ireland created after 1 January 1801 yield to earlier-created baronies of the United Kingdom.

Hereditary Scottish baronies

These are distinct from the titles above, created by writ or patent, and were constituents of the now defunct feudal baronage and are not therefore constituents of the modern, post-feudal peerage: