Kind of - there is a hierarchy within the peerage of overlapping territorial designations, but Lords of the Manor hold that title in their own right; it's not conferred by a peer. Lords of the...
The only real noble title you can legitimately buy is a Scottish barony. A cheaper, if not genuinely aristocratic, option is the manorial lordship. These feudal titles refer not to Lord lords, but to the gentlemen who managed the lords’ estates. Groundskeepers, if you like. A world of difference is contained within the preposition “of”. A manorial lord cannot call himself the right Lord Grandiloquence; rather, he is John Bogminder, Lord of Grandiloquence.
Kind of - there is a hierarchy within the peerage of overlapping territorial designations, but Lords of the Manor hold that title in their own right; it's not conferred by a peer. Lords of the Manor were lesser landlords - they owned the land of their manor, and took rents from the serfs that farmed it. They owned the houses in the village, the village mill and the bakery. They liaised with the reeves and sheriffs in the dispensation of justice, the levying of the king's taxes and recruiting soldiers for the king's army.
If you're a Lord of the Manor, your personal title is still just 'Mr' or 'Mrs' or whatever. Even knights, dames and baronets aren't part of the nobility; they're part of the gentry, the layer below.
Ultimately, the uppermost echelons of the British class system are just a set of social clubs - the point of the aristocracy is that they all know each other. No one can buy their way into that.
Kind of - there is a hierarchy within the peerage of overlapping territorial designations, but Lords of the Manor hold that title in their own right; it's not conferred by a peer. Lords of the Manor were lesser landlords - they owned the land of their manor, and took rents from the serfs that farmed it. They owned the houses in the village, the village mill and the bakery. They liaised with the reeves and sheriffs in the dispensation of justice, the levying of the king's taxes and recruiting soldiers for the king's army.
If you're a Lord of the Manor, your personal title is still just 'Mr' or 'Mrs' or whatever. Even knights, dames and baronets aren't part of the nobility; they're part of the gentry, the layer below.
Ultimately, the uppermost echelons of the British class system are just a set of social clubs - the point of the aristocracy is that they all know each other. No one can buy their way into that.
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