Peerage Land Holdings of the St George Squadron of the White

= Introduction: =

Peerage and Land Holdings
The Squadron's ranks are based on the social ranks of Great Britain. When promoted to the rank of Baronet/Baronetess, you will be given a spot of land from the Crown. When promoted to Baron, you will become part of the peerage of Great Britain and given a barony. As you rise further in the ranks in the Squadron, so do your titles in the peerage and the land holdings you own.

The choice of land holdings is not regulated by the Squadron, and you may choose freely. You could pick one of the historical baronies/viscountcies/etc. with their corresponding land holdings, or you could create your own. We ask, however, that you choose a land holding with the appropriate size compared to the historical ones. For example, a Baronet would not be granted a castle and half a county, and an Earl would not recieve a small cottage as his earldom.

Below is a list of the peerages and land holdings already taken by current and former Captains in the Squadron (although some are no longer members of the Squadron, we envision that they still live happily, walking in their estate gardens, drinking tea on their marble balconies, or having splendid dinner parties in their banquet halls.)

Useful Links

 * Wikipedia - Peerage of Great Britain
 * Wikipedia - Peerage of the United Kingdom
 * Wikipedia - List of family seats of English nobility

= Earldoms: = Earldoms in medieval England were typically the different shires and counties. Nearer the 18th and 19th century however, an earldom was much smaller; never bigger than a county, and more usually just the main town or one or more prominent places within the county. Earldoms with medieval traditions could have a medieval castle as the main estate, while more recent earldoms would have a more modern castle, a large country house or a mansion.

Mount Edgcumbe in the County of Cornwall
Holder: Captain the Sea Lord Joseph James Abraham Isaac Fletcher, Lord of Mount Edgcumbe

Estates:

County of Northumberland
Holder: Captain the Lord James Wilmore, Earl of Northumberland, Viscount Winchendon, Baron Percy, 1st Baronet Wilmore of Stanwick Hall

Estates:

Falmouth in the County of Cornwall
Holder: Captain the Lord John Archibald Allday, Earl of Falmouth, Viscount St. Kitts

Estates:

Strafford and Tickhill in the County of Yorkshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Seth Seamus Seaborn, Earl of Strafford, Viscount Torrington

Estates:

County of Kent
Holder: Captain the Lord Gabriel Alexander William George Laurence, Earl of Kent, Viscount Castleton

Stratfield Saye in the County of Hampshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Rodger Berett, Earl of Stratfield Saye

Estates:

Stafford in the County of Staffordshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Nathaniel James Blatchford, Earl of Stafford, Viscount Trentham, 3rd Baronet Blatchford of Dalham Hall

Estates:

= Viscountcies: = Viscountcies were founded at the end of the middle ages to bridge the juridical gap in the shires and counties not filled by the earls. Like the more recent earldoms, a viscountcy would be the main town or one or more prominent places within a county, and have a more modern castle, a large country house or a mansion as its main estate.

Trentham in the County of Staffordshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Nathaniel James Blatchford, Earl of Stafford, Viscount Trentham, 3rd Baronet Blatchford of Dalham Hall

Estates:

Leeds in the County of Kent
Holder: Captain the Lord John Francis Alexander Page, Viscount Leeds, Baron Hollingbourne, 3rd Baronet of Scampton Hall

Estates:

Torrington in the County of Devonshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Seth Seamus Seaborn, Earl of Strafford, Viscount Torrington

Estates:

Sandbeck in the County of Yorkshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Gabriel Alexander William George Laurence, Earl of Kent, Viscount Castleton

Winchendon in the County of Buckingham
Holder: Captain the Lord James Wilmore, Earl of Northumberland, Viscount Winchendon, Baron Percy, 1st Baronet Wilmore of Stanwick Hall

Hinckley in the County of Leicestershire
Holder: Captain the Lord Angus Beers, Viscount Beers of Hinckley, 1st Baronet Beers of Higham Hall

Scarsdale in the County of Derby
Holder: Captain the Lord Thomas Mackenzie, Viscount Scarsdale

Falmouth in the County of Cornwall
Holder: Captain the Lord William Collister, Viscount Falmouth, Baron Collister of St. Michael's Mount

Christchurch in the County of Hampshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Bernard Richards, Viscount Christchurch

Barbados in the British Windward Islands
Holder: Captain the Lord Kiefer Cain, Viscount Barbados

Estates:

Saint Kitts in the British Leeward Islands
Holder: Captain the Lord John Archibald Allday, Earl of Falmouth, Viscount St. Kitts

Estates:

= Baronies: = The original baronies in England were created in the middle ages, and given to prominent persons that had pledged their loyalty to the Crown in the feudal system of the time. The greatest earls with the largest territories could bestow the hereditary title of Baron to their land owners, and the title later came to mean a person that had received a seat in the House of Lords. These persons usually already owned large areas of land within a county, and owned estates within it, so the feudal practice of giving land to newly created barons disappeared (we still pretend that the practice still exists in the Squadron, however). A barony could therefore be very small (a large mansion and the surrounding land) or very large (the size of a viscountcy), depending on the original size before it being named a barony.

Crowcombe in the County of Somerset
Holder: Captain the Lord Leo Davis, Baron Crowcombe

Estates:

Hollingbourne in the County of Kent
Holder: Captain the Lord John Francis Alexander Page, Viscount Leeds, Baron Hollingbourne, 3rd Baronet of Scampton Hall

Estates:

St. Michael's Mount in the County of Cornwall
Holder: Captain the Lord William Collister, Viscount Falmouth, Baron Collister of St. Michael's Mount

Estates:

Braybrooke in the County of Northamptonshire
Holder: Captain the Lord James Edward Raleigh, Baron Braybrooke

Estates:

Keith in the County of Banffshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Anthony James Dixon, Baron of Keith, 1st Baronet Dixon of Deanston House

Darnton in the County Palatine of Durham
Holder: Captain the Lady Ashleigh Jaedyn Bagster, Baroness Dearthington, 1st Baronetess Bagster of Ravensworth Castle

Estates:

Winterbourne Abbas in the County of Dorsetshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Werner Hoffman, Baron Winterbourne

Estates:

= Baronetcies: = Hereditary baronetcies were in feudal times granted to rich commoners, elevating them above knights, but not making them part of the peerage. In more modern times a baronetcy would be granted as a great honor to prominent persons. Like baronies, the recipient's existing lands and estate became the baronetcy, and the Crown did not grant new lands (although in the Squadron, we pretend that it does). A baronetcy, as it is only the estate of a rich commoner, is therefore usually no more than a smaller country house.

Dalham Hall in the County of Suffolk
Holder: Captain the Lord Nathaniel James Blatchford, Earl of Stafford, Viscount Trentham, 3rd Baronet Blatchford of Dalham Hall

Estates:

Stanwick Hall in the County of Northamptonshire
Holder: Captain the Lord James Wilmore, Earl of Northumberland, Viscount Winchendon, Baron Percy, 1st Baronet Wilmore of Stanwick Hall

Estates:

Higham Hall in the County of Leicestershire
Holder: Captain the Lord Angus Beers, Viscount Beers of Hinckley, 1st Baronet Beers of Higham Hall

Estates:

Scampton Hall in the County of Lincolnshire
Holder: Captain the Lord John Francis Alexander Page, Viscount Leeds, Baron Hollingbourne, 3rd Baronet of Scampton Hall

Estates:

Deanston House in the County of West Perthshire
Holder: Captain the Lord Anthony James Dixon, Baron of Keith, 1st Baronet Dixon of Deanston House

Estates:

Ravenworth Castle in the County Tyne and Wear
Holder: Captain the Lady Ashleigh Jaedyn Bagster, Baroness Dearthington, 1st Baronetess Bagster of Ravensworth Castle

Estates:

Melford Hall in the County of Suffolk
Holder: Captain the Lord James Thomson, Baron Thomson, 1st Baronet Thomson of Melford Hall

Estates:

Catherington House in the County of Southampton
Holder: Captain Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet Hood of Catherington House

Estates: