As a reward for taking defeat with dignity he was awarded a peerage, becoming Lord Watson of Invergowrie. |
The fortunes of the family continued to rise and, in 1789, the 7th Earl, James Cecil, was elevated in the peerage to a marquess. |
In September 1945 he was raised to the peerage, and retired the following March. |
That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage. |
He deftly sidestepped the falls of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell and was raised to the peerage. |
In 1925 Asquith accepted a peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith and was created a knight of the garter shortly afterwards. |