0 the position of being a peer: --
He was elevated to the peerage after distinguished service in industry.
She was given a peerage.
Indeed, by the late eighteenth century two different trends had emerged within the overall pattern of peerage creations.
No previous analysis of recruitment to the peerage has been based on such extensive and systematic research into family histories over so long a period.
The monarch did not and does not need statutory authority to appoint life peers- a peerage can be conferred on any terms thought fit.
A new peerage emerged to help save the old.
Exceptionally, however, a peerage could be conferred or devolve upon a daughter or other heir.
Since then however, the invariable mode of appointment has been the conferment of a peerage by letters patent.
As part of faculty development, those who would call themselves "professor" must deal with issues of professionalism among their peerage.
There is no reason to suppose that the rest of the propertied classes were any more heavily burdened than the peerage.
