Meanings of accept a peerage in English

He thought that you had only to intimate your readiness to accept a peerage and the thing would be arranged.

Jim Cusack reported on his return from London shortly before he accepted a peerage.

In 1883 he accepted a peerage as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth, Sussex, and of Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

It is criticised for being too soft on the issue and regarded as compromised because she accepted a peerage.

For the surviving child, Walpole, when he accepted a peerage in 1742, secured the rank of an earl's daughter.

He refused a baronetcy, but at length in 1883 accepted a peerage and became Lord Tennyson, the first baron of his name.

In 1883, after having twice refused a baronetcy, he, to the regret of his more democratic friends, accepted a peerage (barony).

He had accepted a peerage, it was said, as a bribe to induce him to consent to let Robert Walpole go unimpeached and unpunished.

The 62-year-old former Labour MP, who became Lord Stratford when he accepted a peerage last year, was being taken to a hospice when he died.

Speaking as chairman of the SDLP, Mr Stevens said inter alia that in accepting a peerage Dr Alderdice showed "an astonishing admission of political failure".