I'm not sure. People have been stripped of knighthoods and other honours for similarly serious crimes - fraud is certainly sufficient. I'm not quite sure why Archer still has his (life) peerage - it may be that there are legal technicalities there because it confers membership of the legislature, or perhaps the Life Peerages Act just doesn't stipulate any procedures or mechanisms whereby a criminal peer might be demoted.
Baronetcies are odd things - basically hereditary knighthoods, they don't confer any political rights or privileges. It may be that he could be stripped of his title, but that his eldest son (if any) would inherit it upon his death - or possibly the title would just be abolished outright.
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Date: 2005-01-12 08:51 pm (UTC)Baronetcies are odd things - basically hereditary knighthoods, they don't confer any political rights or privileges. It may be that he could be stripped of his title, but that his eldest son (if any) would inherit it upon his death - or possibly the title would just be abolished outright.