TRMN:Membership Handbook:PeerageGrant

Granting of Peerage

Peerages are granted to deserving members through a process of nominations. To be eligible for nomination, a member must have reached the rank level of E-8. The House of Commons may nominate one (1) member to be considered for peerage once a year. The House of Lords may nominate additional members based on the number to be elevated. After nominations are received, they are submitted to the Peerage Courts (see below), whom then approve or deny the nomination.

NOTE: For members that are married (in Real Life), and approved for elevation, their partner will receive the same privilege and title as the member in the opposite gender form. This does not apply to Knights/Dames as that is always a non-landed Peerage Award

If a peer has children (in Real Life) the eldest will be granted a cadet peerage in said family and may be referred to by the cadet form of address listed above, while subsequent offspring are referred to as “The Honorable [name].”

This does not apply to Knights/Dames as that is always a non-landed Peerage Award.

Approval

All Peerages will be voted on by the Peerage Court. The Peerage Court consists of the First Lord of the Admiralty and a maximum of five and a minimum of three other landed peers. A vote on the peerage must be held and the result must be a majority in favor of approval *before* the title is bestowed upon the recipient. The First Lord of the Admiralty, as President of the Peerage Court may bestow non-landed peerages as needed.

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