27/07/2026
The current Earl of Clancarty, Nicholas Trench, has been granted a reprieve of sorts following the UK Government action to abolish the 92 hereditary peerages in the House of Lords in June. He is one of 29 peers who were granted life peerages by King Charles and has taken the title Baron Clancarty of the Hangers of Petersfield in Hampshire. Hangers is a very English term for forests that grow on the sides of hills, and there are some renowned Hangers near Petersfield where Nicholas and his family live. So he remains the Earl of Clancarty but sits in the House of Lords as Baron Clancarty of the Hangers. Baron is the entry level title in the English peerage system. The title is personal to him, and the earldom can only be inherited by sons. As he and his wife have just one daughter that title too will lapse on is death.
