Vlll Preface. The following tables furnish statistics as to the number of honours that have been conferred (exclusive of those bestowed on foreign gentlemen), and the hereditary dignities which have become extinct or dormant, since 1872 : CREATIONS FROM JAN. IST, 1872 TO DEC. STH, 1892. Peers t^ rV, + ih
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CN CO oJ o o "rt 5 US 163 1191 1146 00 00 CO 00 CO CO CO 3 5 37 7 2 54 6 15 39 I 32 9 12 28 62 2 I 29 40 12 II 4 6 5, 4 7 1 4 ii 65 99 6 43 34 4 2 32 45 13 H 55 98 12 17 9 6 154 9 !8 148 245 2 3 57 74
57 107 2 9 52 S5 7 8 60 io3 17 17 33 97 Baronets .... Knights
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HEREDITARY TITLES EXTINCT FROM JAN. IST, 1872 TO DEC. STH. 1892. Peerages . . Baronetcies 4 4 5:2 4 3 3.3 4l3 2| 6 The following statement shows the number of deaths which have taken place among Peers (Spiritual and Temporal), Peeresses, Baronets, Knights, and Companions during the last twenty years. OBITUARY FROM JAN. ist, 1872 TO DEC. STH, 1892. Peers . . 24 20 27 20 20 17 1 !S ! 15 16 19(14:25 23 23: 23 27 20 25I2I 3225 45i Peeresses 15 21 29 15 15 16 19 J 9 ii 10 l6;I4 2 3 20 22 20 12 23 13 23 21 377 Bishops
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3 12 Baronets 34 36 35 26 42 39 32 23 24 21 29| 38 29 33; 26 29 37 28 31 36 36 664 Knights _ 20 27 26 34 32 25 32 33 28 26 25 33 3 3i37 43 34 33 SSiSI 50 692
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i8! 3 i 26 1 39 1 32 49147 ^6 3 4i 39 383 To all correspondents who have courteously supplied voluntary information, or corrected the proofs sent for their inspection, best thanks are tendered, and if they will in future kindly forward family changes, promotions, alterations of address, etc., as they occur, instead of deferring their corrimunications to a late period of the year, they will greatly assist THE EDITOR. l6oA, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.G., December "jth, 1892. Statistics not observed before 1882.
