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This is a list of women who have been sat as members of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Unless stated otherwise the reason for leaving the Lords is death. Unless stated otherwise the reason for leaving the Lords is death.
The following are lists of members of the House of Lords: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
Apart from retired Lords Spiritual and the surviving hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999, including the Marquess of Cholmondeley who was exempt from the 1999 Act by virtue of his position as Lord Great Chamberlain until the accession of Charles III in September 2022, [1] there are a number of living peers who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.
Women's rights campaigner, CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK: Lord Gold: 1 February 2011 Conservative Life peer Lawyer Baroness Goldie: 3 October 2013 Conservative Life peer Former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament (2005–2011) Baroness Golding: 13 July 2001 Labour Life peer Radiographer and former MP Lord ...
The first women in the House of Lords took their seats in 1958, forty years after women were granted the right to stand as MPs in the House of Commons. These were life peeresses appointed by the Prime Minister, although countesses had appeared in medieval times. Female hereditary peers were able to sit in the
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Members of the British House of Lords. It includes Members of the British House of Lords that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The first female diocesan bishop, and thus the first female Lord Spiritual due to this act, was Rachel Treweek in 2015. [5] Consecrated Bishop of Gloucester on 22 July 2015 [6] and enthroned on 19 September 2015, [7] she joined the Lords on 7 September 2015 with the full title The Rt Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, [8] and was introduced to the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the ...
The Lord Goodlad: Succeeded by: The Baroness Taylor of Bolton: Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; In office 27 July 1998 – 8 June 2001: Prime Minister: Tony Blair: Deputy: The Lord Williams of Mostyn: Preceded by: The Lord Richard: Succeeded by: The Lord Williams of Mostyn: Minister for Women; In office 27 July 1998 ...