In the peerages of the British Isles, most titles have traditionally been created for men and with remainder to male heirs. However, some titles are created with special remainders to allow women to inherit them. Some of the oldest English baronies were created by writ and pass to female heirs when a peer dies with daughters and no sons, while some titles are created with a man's family in mind, if he is without sons and unlikely to produce any. The following is a list of women who have inherited titles with the British peerages.
14th century
15th century
16th century
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title | Title | Name | Other titles | Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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1513 | 1539 attainted died 27 May 1541 | 8th or 2nd Countess of Salisbury | Margaret Pole | Edward Plantagenet, brother | Forfeit | |
1526 | 19 September 1580 | 12 Baroness Willoughby de Eresby | Catherine Willoughby (Brandon) (Bertie) | Duchess of Suffolk | William Willoughby, father | Peregrine Bertie, son |
13 March 1540 | 17 April 1543 dispossessed died 28 January 1571 | 7th Baroness Bourchier | Anne Bourchier (Parr) | Henry Bourchier, father | Walter Devereux, cousin | |
14 April 1587 | 1 May 1591 | 16th Baroness de Ros | Elizabeth (Manners) Cecil | Edward Manners, father | William Cecil, son |
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century
Date inherited | Date of death or other loss of title | Title | Name | Other titles | Preceded in title by | Succeeded in title by |
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14 October 2002 | 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe | Matilda Simon | formerly Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, but title changed after her gender transition. | Roger Simon, father | ||
17 December 2003 | 8 November 2011 | 12th Countess of Dysart | Katherine Grant | Rosamund Greaves, sister | John Grant, son | |
25 June 2004 | 10th Baroness Howard de Walden | Mary Hazel Caridwen Czernin | John Osmael Scott-Ellis, father abeyant 1999–2004 | |||
17 May 2012 | 2 March 2013 | 9th Baroness Fauconberg 15th Baroness Conyers | Diana Miller | Countess of Mértola | Sackville George Pelham, father abeyant 1948–2012 | titles abeyant |
30 September 2012 | 13th Lady Kinloss | Teresa Freeman-Grenville | Mary Freeman-Grenville, mother | |||
8 May 2014 | 29th Baroness Dacre | Emily Douglas-Home | James Douglas-Home, father | |||
25 November 2014 | 7 April 2017 | 15th Lady Herries of Terregles | Mary Mumford | Anne Cowdrey, sister | Jane Kerr, sister | |
7 April 2017 | 16th Lady Herries of Terregles | Jane Kerr | Marchioness of Lothian | Mary Mumford, sister | ||
2019 | 9th Lady Balfour of Burleigh | Victoria Bruce-Winkler | Robert Bruce, father | |||
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