Registering for a Peerage

[AnnaMartin]

Not sure where the best chat room to ask this question would be?

My husband’s family have included English, Scottish and Irish peerages in their history. I am curious because the son of the previous holder of one of the titles hasn’t yet registered. My son is apparently next in line. Does anyone have any idea if there is a time limit on registering, or if the person would need to renounce the title, or if they would need to die, before the title went to the next person in line?

Would anyone know if there is another or better site for my research?

[Kiltpin]

There is no time limit. Unless the presumptive peer declines his peerage, or dies, it cannot pass on. Lord Lucan is still presumed to be alive, so his son cannot claim the title. The Lord Chancellor's office are the people to contact. 

Regards 

Chas

[Kiltpin]

There is also something about a peer only able to decline his peerage only for himself, but not for any offspring, legally born of the body, he might yet have.   

Regards 

Chas

[aghadowey]

There is no time limit. Unless the presumptive peer declines his peerage, or dies, it cannot pass on. Lord Lucan is still presumed to be alive, so his son cannot claim the title. The Lord Chancellor's office are the people to contact. 
Regards 
Chas 

Actually, Lord Lucan has been presumed and declared dead (in 2016) and his son is now the 8th Earl of Lucan-
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/03/lord-lucan-death-certificate-granted-more-than-40-years-after-disappearance

[AntonyMMM]

Not sure where the best chat room to ask this question would be?

My husband’s family have included English, Scottish and Irish peerages in their history. I am curious because the son of the previous holder of one of the titles hasn’t yet registered. My son is apparently next in line. Does anyone have any idea if there is a time limit on registering, or if the person would need to renounce the title, or if they would need to die, before the title went to the next person in line?

Would anyone know if there is another or better site for my research?

For England/Wales you would start by talking to the College of Arms, in Scotland it would be the Office of the Lord Lyon

[Erato]

Just curious - what are the advantages of being a peer?

[AnnaMartin]

Family history only. It was actually a baronacy, which I have discovered aren’t peers. I believe it has been claimed after all. It had said it was dormant.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Just curious - what are the advantages of being a peer?

Other than bragging rights, none.
At one point being a hereditary peer gave you a seat in the House of Lords but since the partial reforms, this is no longer the case.

[Vance Mead]

According the site of the College of Arms, "the Officers provide assistance and advice in establishing succession" to a peerage.

https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/resources/peerages-and-baronetcies