''The Complete Peerage'' (full title: ''The Complete Peerage of
England
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Ireland
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Great Britain
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United Kingdom
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Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''); first edition by
George Edward Cokayne,
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Vicary Gibbs ''et al.'') is a comprehensive work on the
titled aristocracy of the
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History
''The Complete Peerage'' was first published in eight volumes between 1887 and 1898 by George Edward Cokayne (G. E. C.).
This version was effectively replaced by a new and enlarged edition between 1910 and 1959, edited successively by
Vicary Gibbs (Cokayne's nephew), H. A. (Herbert Arthur) Doubleday, Duncan Warrand,
Lord Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. The revised edition, published by the St Catherine Press Limited, was in twelve volumes, with volume twelve issued in two parts.
Volume thirteen was issued in 1940, not as part of the alphabetical sequence, but as a supplement covering creations and promotions within the peerage between 1900 and 1938. The leading researcher on the project was
Ethel Stokes and the five volumes from 1929 to 1949 acknowledge her major contribution.
The work has been reprinted in a number of formats, most notably by
Alan Sutton Publishers who reduced it in size to six volumes in a photographically reduced format. This contains four page images on each smaller page.
It was available on
CD. A further reprint in six volumes appeared in 2000, together with Volume 14, which is an appendix, correcting the original publication (1910–1938) and briefly updating it to 1995.
Volumes
1st edition
All volumes edited by George Cokayne.
2nd edition
Volumes 1–5 have the title ''Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant'', and volumes 6–13: ''The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times''.
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See also
* ''Burke's Peerage
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External links
Complete Peerage
Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: Peerages and other compilationsParliamentary Archives, The Complete Peerage Trust
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1887 non-fiction books
19th-century history books
George Bell & Sons books
History books about England
History books about Scotland
History books about Ireland
History books about the United Kingdom
Society of England
Genealogy publications
British biographical dictionaries
Irish genealogy
Peerages in the United Kingdom