Editing Peerages in the United Kingdom (section)

===Salary, renumeration and land===

There is no automatic right to a salary for being a peer; this includes peers who serve in parliament, who (unlike MPs in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]) do not receive a salary for their role. However, peers who serve in the House of Lords are entitled to claim £342{{when|date=January 2025}} allowance for each day they attend to help cover expenses. In an effort to ensure peers from outside the capital were not disadvantaged, peers whose registered home address is outside Greater London can also claim travel expenses and up to £100 towards the cost of a hotel or similar accommodation. Peers who serve in government as ministers are not entitled to claim these allowances, however, and thus their roles are often jointly given with [[sinecure]] roles, or they are appointed to salaried positions in the [[Royal Households of the United Kingdom|Royal Household]]. For example, the position of [[Leader of the House of Lords]] is usually appointed with the accompanying sinecure role of [[Lord Privy Seal]], as the latter carries a salary. The Government [[Chief Whip]] in the House of Lords is appointed jointly to the role of Captain of the [[Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms]], and the Government deputy chief whip is appointed jointly as Captain of the [[Yeomen of the Guard]]. This allows them to take a salary from the Royal Household as heads of the [[Sovereign's Bodyguard]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68677341|title=Peers to get up to £100 a night for hotel stays|date=27 March 2024|accessdate=28 May 2024|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> The salaries of the Leader of the Opposition and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords are paid out of public funds alongside the so called [[Cranborne Money]], the annual payment to opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them with their costs.

Though a small minority of peerages have associated hereditary [[Royal office holders|royal offices]] — for example the office of [[Earl Marshal]] has been consistently and hereditarily held by the [[Duke of Norfolk|dukes of Norfolk]] since 1672 — peerages do not automatically grant the holders royal offices or privileges. The feudal titles (such as Lordship of the Manor titles) that peerages largely replaced often have associated royal offices because they were held via [[Grand serjeanty]], e.g. the Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire holds the office of [[King's Champion]].

Peerages do not automatically grant specific land rights or privileges (unlike the [[Feudalism in England|feudal]] titles they largely replaced) and the [[territorial designation]] of a peerage title does not indicate any land ownership nor entitle the holder to any benefit from the territory or land named. For example, the [[Marquess of Salisbury]] owns the mineral rights below [[Welwyn Garden City]], not because of the peerage, but because he also owns the separate historic feudal title "[[Lord of the manor|Lord of the Manor of Hatfield]]" which granted these rights. The very limited historical exceptions to this are the [[County palatine|County palatinate]] of Chester belonging to the [[Earl of Chester]], which held some limited privileges until 1830, and the [[Duchy of Cornwall]] conferred on the Duke of Cornwall. Both of these titles are royal peerages traditionally held by the heir to the throne. The [[Duchy of Lancaster]] also exists, but is not associated with a peerage title, but rather the courtesy title of Duke of Lancaster held by the monarch. There were also palatine districts in [[Ireland]], of which the most notable were those of the [[Earls of Desmond]] and the [[Earl of Ormond (Irish)|Earls of Ormond]] in [[County Tipperary]] in the [[Peerage of Ireland]]. The latter continued in existence until it was abolished by the [[County Palatine of Tipperary Act 1715]]. In [[Scotland]], the earldom of [[Strathearn]] was identified as a county palatine in the 14th century, although the title of [[Earl of Strathearn]] has usually been merged with the Crown in subsequent centuries and there is little indication that the status of Strathearn differed in practice from other Scottish earldoms.

Though peerages, particularly hereditary peerages, are associated with [[English country house|country houses]] set within large [[Estate (land)#Country house estate|estates]], there is no explicit formal link between the two, and many hereditary peers are now separated from the country estates their ancestors owned, while many life peers have never owned such estates. Through history, some peers inherited [[manor house]]s from the feudal era, while others built new [[prodigy house]]s, or later purchased country estates with wealth made in the [[British Empire|empire]] or [[Industrial Revolution|industry]]. Some country houses were gifted to peers "by the nation", such as [[Blenheim Palace]] for the [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|1st Duke of Marlborough]] and [[Trafalgar Park, Wiltshire|Trafalgar Park]] for the [[Earl Nelson|1st Earl Nelson]]. Historically, some hereditary peers used an [[Fee tail|entail]] in an effort to prevent their estate from being separated from the peerage titles by their heirs and reinforcing the practice of [[primogeniture]]. The entail practice was essentially abolished by the early half of the 20th century, and [[Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain|many peers and members of the landed gentry had to sell their estates]] due to political and economic changes.