What's the difference...

[Whickerman]

...between a Knight of the Realm ('Sir') and a Lord of the Realm?

For instance, you hear of knighthoods being given, making Sir Joe Blogs, but how do you become a lord?

And how the hell do these guys talks QE2 into handing out knighthoods...?
http://www.englishtitles.co.uk/life_title.htm

[Whickerman]

I'd have thought that - so is Andrew Lloyd Webber from a titled family?

[kempie]

Titles, honours and decorations are bestowed by the Crown (or Act of Parliament in the case of Life Peers) as part of the Honours System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_honours_s ystem

A "Lord" outranks a "Sir" within the Order of Precedence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_or der_of_precedence

As to the website in the question, I suspect that the "Titles" are no more than a registered change of name, and in the case of the "Seated Titles", an entry within the Land Registry for a small packet of the website owner's land in this new name.

Quite an expensive method of Change of Name by Deed Poll.

[Ice.Maiden]

http://www.kevinboone.com/thetitlesgame.html

This sets out the different ranks and titles, from peers to nobility.

[THECORBYLOON]

The titles bough through companies such as English Titles confer mean nothing in reality but the folk who buy them think it does. Have a look here for more info, http://www.faketitles.com/

[tiggerblue10]

I would like to know why Richard Attenborough is a Lord and David isn't. Surely David deserves a Lordship for what he has done over the last 60 odd years.