WOMEN AND TITLES

Shannon News, 29 November 1927, Page 4

WOMEN AND TITLES

Lady Mary Fitz-Maurice, who is engaged to Mr Edward Gosling, is the present heiress to the Peerage of her father, Lord Orkney. This may one day bring about the anomaly so confusing to foreigners of a husband and wife with different names. There are several other peers likely to be succeeded by women. Two of the Duke of Sutherland’s titles —-the Earldom of Sutherland and the Barony of Strathnaver—will pass to his small niece, Miss Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, but the dukedom, which only goes in the male line, passes to a cousin. Lord Newburgh’s heir-presumptive is his daughter, Lady Maria GiustinianiBandini, while the baronies of Clinton and Vaux of Harrowden both fall into abeyance between co-heiresses. Of existing peeresses in their own right (there are 22 of them), five have female heirs-presumptive.