earldom

• “For him, the earldom was a private treasure chest, not an estate that fed thousands of people.”

  The Pillars of the Earth

• “To the garter nobody can have slenderer pretensions; his family is scarce older than his earldom, which is of the youngest.”

  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2

• “Augustus Hare described it as “an imitation, not a caricature of the best Italian models,” was built for R.S. Holford in 1851-53 on the site of an older house of the same name belonging to the extinct earldom of Dorchester.”

  Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade

• “Shortly afterwards Ælfgār was restored to his earldom and a peace treaty concluded.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “Gruffudd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “One need only read the what the poet wrote to Southampton to realize that these are not the words of the holder of the oldest title in England to a much younger man whose earldom went back only three generations.”

  Law

• “They mean little to me when placed against the venerable consequence of the earldom.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “It was almost a relief when everyone started reminding each other about the ancient and baffling phenomenon of entailment, the insane property law that enabled a complete stranger (well, a third cousin, once removed, in Manchester) to inherit all your money and earldom and acres of rolling parkland.”

  The Guardian: Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon

• “Self-made parking garage magnate who buys an earldom.”

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• “When she married her first husband, the heir to an earldom, her Colonsay daddy gave her away while her real, Edinburgh daddy sat quietly in a frontpew.”

  The Guardian: What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam

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