7 APRIL 1928, Page 3

Last Saturday Prince Henry, the King's third son, became Duke

of Gloucester in honour of his twenty-eighth birthday. The Gloucester Peerage dates back to 1122 when Henry Beauclerc created his natural son Earl of Gloucester. Perhaps the most famous Duke of Gloucester was the sinister Richard III. The title has been out of the peerage since the death in 1884 of that Duke of Gloucester who had been given his Dukedom by George III. Prince Henry has also become Baron Culloden and Earl of Ulster. The' Ulster earldom dates back to 1842 and was last held by the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 to 1900. The Barony of Culloden was not created till 1801 and was conferred on the Duke of Cambridge to commemorate the battle. The title became extinct in 1904.