Longest peerage
- Who
- Unknown
- When
- 01 January 0001
The longest tenure of a peerage has been 87 years 10 days in the case of Charles St Clair, Lord Sinclair, born 30 July 1768, succeeded 16 December 1775 and died aged 94 years 243 days on 30 March 1863.
The shortest enjoyment of a peerage was the `split second' by which the law assumes that the Hon. Wilfrid Carlyl Stamp, the 2nd Baron Stamp, survived his father, Josiah Charles Stamp, the 1st Baron Stamp, when both were killed as a result of German bombing of London on 16 April 1941. Apart from this legal fiction, the shortest recorded peerage was one of 30minutes in the case of Charles Brandon, the 3rd Duke of Suffolk, who died aged 13 or 14 just after succeeding his brother Henry, when both were suffering a fatal illness, at Buckden, Cambs on 14 July 1551.
The shortest enjoyment of a peerage was the `split second' by which the law assumes that the Hon. Wilfrid Carlyl Stamp, the 2nd Baron Stamp, survived his father, Josiah Charles Stamp, the 1st Baron Stamp, when both were killed as a result of German bombing of London on 16 April 1941. Apart from this legal fiction, the shortest recorded peerage was one of 30minutes in the case of Charles Brandon, the 3rd Duke of Suffolk, who died aged 13 or 14 just after succeeding his brother Henry, when both were suffering a fatal illness, at Buckden, Cambs on 14 July 1551.