Re: Earl of Spencer


Stephen Stillwell / Tom Wilding wrote:
> "Michael Rhodes" <migx73allenford2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1128468916.437088.54920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > BettyG wrote:
> >> If the current Earl of Spencer didn't have his heir and a spare, whom
> >> would the title pass to when he passed?
> >
> > The peerage would probably have fallen into extinction, because the
> > only other male Spencer is a kinsman, George Cecil Robert Maurice
> > Spencer, born in 1932, who aint married.
> >
> > ***
> >
> BTW - it is not the Earl of Spencer, but simply the Earl Spencer. The
> earldoms that use the family name rather than a geographic designation do
> not use the "of."
>
> -- Stephen J Stillwell, jr

I wonder why Marquess Camden is so titled when he's actually a Pratt.

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