13 NOVEMBER 1953, Page 26

The Complete Peerage. By G. E. C. Edited by Geoffrey

H. White. Vol. XII, Part I. (St. Catherine's Press, Ltd. £3 13s. 6d.) THIS new volume of the, Complete Peerage runs from the Barony of Skelmersdale to the Marquessate of Townshend of Raynham, covering the history of such peerages as Southampton, Strafford, Somerset and Suffolk in accordance with the standards of exact scholarship laid down in earlier volumes. The numerous appendices deal briefly with such matters as the Slane Peerage case and the soi-disant Earls of Stirling.

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