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A request that this article title be changed to List of current members of the House of Lords is under discussion. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed. This is a list of members of the House of Lords , the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
Number of members of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2021. The size of the House of Lords has varied greatly throughout its history. The English House of Lords—then comprising 168 members—was joined at Westminster by 16 Scottish peers to represent the peerage of Scotland—a total of 184 nobles—in 1707's first Parliament of Great Britain.
The Bill, if passed, will entirely remove hereditary peers from voting functions within the House of Lords. House of Lords reform was included within the Labour Party's manifesto for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, which included an age cap on peers and the removal of hereditary peers entirely. [1]
Richard John Denison, 9th Baron Londesborough (born 2 July 1959), is a British hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.. Lord Londesborough took his seat and gave his maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1999, just before being excluded by the House of Lords Act 1999. [1]
Oliver Michael Robert Eden, 8th Baron Henley, 6th Baron Northington (born 22 November 1953), is a British hereditary peer and politician, who is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 excepted hereditary peers from the house, he was an active member of the House of Lords. [1] Lord Cromwell lost his seat due to the Act. On 9 April 2014, he was elected to sit in the House of Lords at a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election , now making him one of the 92 excepted ...
Ralph William Robert Stonor, 8th Baron Camoys (born 10 September 1974), is a British hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Lord Camoys became a member of the House in November 2023, after winning a hereditary peers' by-election to replace Lord Brougham and Vaux. [1]
Herman George Ouseley, Baron Ouseley (24 March 1945 – 2 October 2024) was a British parliamentarian. Before becoming a member of the House of Lords he was an important figure in public authorities, including local councils, and was an adviser and reviewer of public services organisations with a particular focus on equality and diversity.