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	Articles - Courtesy title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For instance, the eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry is the Earl of Dalkeith, even though the Duke is also the Marquess of Dumfriesshire, a senior title to the Earldom of Dalkeith.
		For instance, the eldest son of the Earl of Devon is Lord Courtenay, even though the Earl has no barony of that name, and similarly the eldest son of the Earl of Guilford is Lord North.
		Thus a baron's wife is called "baroness", an earl's wife is called a "countess", a duke's wife a "duchess", etc. Despite being referred to as a "peeress", she does not, however, become a peer "in her own right": these are 'styles', not substantive titles.
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	Earl of Mexborough -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Earl of Mexborough -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The title of Earl of Mexborough was created in the (Click link for more info and facts about Peerage of Ireland) Peerage of Ireland in 1766.
		The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Pollington (1766) and Baron Pollington (1753).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/earl_of_mexborough.htm (92 words)

	ipedia.com: Courtesy title Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the British peerage system, wives, children, and other close relatives of a peer are addressed by styles that may mislead those unacquainted with the system into thinking that they have substantive titles.
		If a peer of the rank of Earl, Marquess or Duke has more than one title, his eldest son uses one of the lesser titles.
		However, only the grandfather is a peer: the other two remain 'commoners' until they actually acquire a substantive title.
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