26-546: Lord King may refer to: Baron King , title created in 1725, see Earl of Lovelace John King, Baron King of Wartnaby (1917–2005), chairman of British Airways Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury (born 1948), former governor of the Bank of England Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich (1937–2013), British local councillor Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater (born 1933), British former cabinet member Topics referred to by
52-489: A duke to the heir of a ducal title. The younger sons of a noble titleholder used one of the family's lesser titles, but rarely one of duke or prince. Even in untitled families of the nobility, every son used a different territorial designation , the so-called nom de terre . The daughters used the title of mademoiselle , followed by the name of a manor owned by their father. For example, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (known as La Grande Mademoiselle ),
78-623: A genuine member of the noblesse d'épée the custom was tolerated in French society. A common practice is title declension , when cadet males of noble families, especially landed aristocracy, may assume a lower courtesy title than that legally borne by the head of their family, even though lacking a titled seigneury themselves. For example, the eldest son of the Duke of Paris (substantive title) may be called Marquis de Paris (courtesy title) and younger sons Comte N. of Paris , where N. stands for
104-429: A hotel, Mercedes Benz World, paths through greens, skateboarding and playground spaces and Brooklands distribution/retail park. A small part has become housing, having addresses with motor history names. Courtesy title A courtesy title is a title that does not have legal significance but is rather used by custom or courtesy, particularly, in the context of nobility , the titles used by children of members of
130-544: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Earl of Lovelace Earl of Lovelace was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1838 for William King-Noel, 8th Baron King , a title created in 1725. The King or Locke King family stems from the only known child of Jerome King, a grocer, of Exeter , and his wife Anne, first cousin of
156-495: Is the ancestor who holds the title substantively. By extension, the children not only of all peers but of those who bear derivative courtesy titles as male-line descendants of a substantive peer bear specific titles ( Lord / Lady ) or styles ( The Honourable ) by courtesy. Under United Kingdom law , users of courtesy titles of nobility are held to be commoners , eligible for election to the House of Commons rather than being members of
182-595: The 1st Baron King 's death in 1734, the King Chapel was added to All Saints' Church, Ockham , intended as a chapel over the family vault of the Lords King and their descendants. The traditional burial place of the Earls of Lovelace was at Martin's Church, East Horsley . The 1st Earl is buried in a mausoleum in a corner of the churchyard, the 2nd Earl was cremated at Woking Crematorium (his ashes are buried in
208-533: The 3rd Earl in 1909. Ada Lovelace , the 1st Earl's first wife, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage 's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine . Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer . The Hon. Peter King , second son of
234-486: The King Chapel of All Saints' Church, Ockham ), while the 3rd Earl and his wife Edith († 1932), the 4th Earl and his wife Doris († 1940) as well as the Lovelace daughters Lady Diana de Hosszu († 1955) and Lady Penelope Allen († 1947) rest in the churchyard of Martin's, where the "Lovelace Plot" was set apart for “myself, my heirs and (...) the exclusive right in perpetuity of burial and placing monuments and gravestones” by
260-541: The additional surname and arms of Noel, but resumed by Royal licence, in 1908, the surname and arms of King only for himself and his children. He served in the First World War as a Major in the Northumberland Fusiliers and as a staff-Captain. The titles were finally held by his grandson, the 5th Earl (1951–2018), who succeeded his father in 1964 and died in 2018. As there were no heirs to
286-447: The churchyard. The mausoleum, which has recently been restored, contains his tomb and that of his second wife. His eldest son Byron, Viscount Ockham , briefly succeeded his maternal grandmother to become the 12th Baron Wentworth according to its special remainder in 1860. However, he predeceased his father, unmarried, two years later. At his death in 1893, the 1st Earl of Lovelace was succeeded by his second son Ralph (1839–1906), who
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#1732780452879312-457: The earldom of Lovelace, to the viscountcy of Ockham and to the barony of King of Ockham, these all became extinct at his death. The family seat following its purchase by the 1st Lord King was Ockham Park , Ockham, Surrey until the fine Jacobean house was reduced to outbuildings in a fire in 1948. The family then moved its main home to Torridon House, near Torridon in Ross-shire . After
338-504: The earldom. Lord Lovelace acquired Horsley Towers (now a hotel) in East Horsley and was patron of the parish church funding the rebuilding of the chancel and the nave in 1869. He also rebuilt the wall of the churchyard which included a number of architectural features such as the gazebo and its family crest-engraved walls. He planned for his death 20 years before he died when work began on building his mausoleum in another corner of
364-505: The family's first courtesy title ), and Earl of Lovelace in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . He was appointed the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey from 1840 to 1893. Ada died in 1852, leaving her husband, in his forties, a widower. In 1860, he assumed for himself by Royal licence the additional surname and arms of Noel, those of Wentworth. In 1865 he remarried, to Jane Crawford Jenkins and had one child, who would eventually inherit
390-489: The first name. In the hereditary Napoleonic and Restoration peerage, declension was a legal right of younger sons, the derivative title being heritable by male primogeniture; King Joseph Napoleon conferred the title "Prince" on his grandchildren in the male and female line. During the Ancien Régime , the only substantive titles were feudal , land-based and required a royal grant or royal recognition. In order to use
416-559: The leading philosopher of quite low birth, John Locke . This child was Sir Peter King , a prominent lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1714 to 1725, and as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1725 to 1733; as such, in 1725 he was created Baron King of Ockham in the County of Surrey , in the Peerage of Great Britain (verbally and less formally Lord King ). The estate he bought
442-475: The name of the principal title of their father. Members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta used the title of chevalier in the same fashion. The heir apparent of a titled nobleman used one of the lesser titles of his father as a courtesy title. In the 17th century, the heirs of the most powerful dukes were sometimes allowed to assume the title of prince. In the 18th century, a trend
468-496: The nobility (cf. substantive title ). In some contexts, courtesy title is used to mean the more general concept of a title or honorific such as Mr. , Mrs. , Ms. , Miss , Madam , Sir for those who not been awarded a knighthood or a baronetcy, as well as Dr. for physicians who have not actually achieved a doctorate. In Europe, including France, many titles are not substantive titles but remain titres de courtoisie , and, as such, are adopted unilaterally. When done by
494-458: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lord King . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_King&oldid=1223842298 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
520-599: The seventh Lord King (and brother of the first Earl of Lovelace), was a long-serving progressive politician who bought Brooklands and the father of Hugh F. Locke King , the entrepreneur who transformed it into a pioneering racetrack and aviation centre from the year 1906 onwards. The family had no male heirs, nor female who married a celebrity. Hugh died without children in 1926 and his elder brother Peter died in middle age in 1885 in Aston without sons. Hugh's large Brooklands estate became Brooklands College , Brooklands Museum,
546-424: The title of count, one had to own a seigneurie elevated to county and to comply with the remainder of the grant. These legal prescriptions, however, came to be consistently enforced only with respect to the title of duke ( duc ). Most titles were self-assumed courtesy titles, even those used at the royal court and in legal documents. Clergymen before episcopal ordination used the title of abbé , followed by
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#1732780452879572-448: The title passed to his eldest son, the eighth Baron. In 1835, the eighth Baron married as his first wife the Hon. (Augusta) Ada Byron , the only daughter of the poet Lord Byron and his wife 11th Baroness Wentworth ( Anne Isabella Milbanke), who was a descendant of the extinct Barons Lovelace . In 1838 the eighth Baron was created Viscount Ockham (territorial designation the same, to be
598-406: Was chosen as his territorial designation . He was succeeded by his eldest son (the second Baron) who represented Launceston and Exeter in the House of Commons but died aged 34. His three younger brothers—Peter, William and Thomas—all succeeded in the barony. Thomas was succeeded by his son, the sixth Baron, whose son, the seventh Baron, was a Whig politician and writer. On his death in 1833,
624-405: Was for the heir to use the title of duke. It was achieved in one of three ways: if the head of family held two dukedoms, his heir could use the junior one; the head of family could resign his French peerage to his heir, who assumed a new title of duke while the father retained his ducal title; the king could confer a brevet de duc , that is formally accord the non-hereditary style and precedence of
650-430: Was the eldest daughter of Gaston d'Orléans ( Monsieur ) and his first wife Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier . Anne Marie Louise was officially known as Mademoiselle from the time of her birth. The United Kingdom has a detailed system of courtesy titles and styles by which the eldest son, male-line grandson or great-grandson and heir of a peer may use a subsidiary title of his ancestor even though it
676-446: Was then already the 13th Baron Wentworth. In 1861, Ralph had assumed by Royal licence the surname of Milbanke in lieu of Noel . The 2nd Earl of Lovelace had no sons and was succeeded in the barony of Wentworth by his only child, Ada King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth . His other titles passed to his half-brother Lionel (1865–1929), the 3rd Earl. In 1895, the 3rd Earl of Lovelace had received for himself only Royal licence to use
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