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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
The commission was established in May 2000 to assist the transitional arrangements for reform of the House of Lords. The role of the prime minister in making non-partisan recommendations to the monarch for creation of life peerages was partially [1] transferred to the commission, in order to ensure greater transparency in the process. It was ...
The Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office in gross post among the Cholmondeley, Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Carington families.. In 1902 it was ruled by the House of Lords that the then joint office holders (the 1st Earl of Ancaster, the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire) had to agree on a deputy to exercise the office, subject ...
Below is a list of actors and actresses that are or were part of the cast of the American drama television series House. The show's main stars have included, at some point, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison, Peter Jacobson, Olivia Wilde, Kal Penn, Amber Tamblyn, Odette Annable, and ...
As a part of a compromise, however, it agreed to permit 92 hereditary peers to remain until the reforms were complete. Thus, all but 92 hereditary peers were expelled under the House of Lords Act 1999 (see below for its provisions), making the House of Lords predominantly an appointed house. Since 1999, however, no further reform has taken place.
Janet Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, PC (born 20 August 1955), is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. A former secretary and adviser to Neil Kinnock, Royall was appointed to the House of Lords in 2004 after having stood unsuccessfully to be MEP for The Cotswolds, and to be MP for Ipswich and Ogmore.
People who held the position of Leader of the House of Lords, a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
For one season (1984-85), he was a regular cast member on the long running NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. Guest holds a hereditary British peerage as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest , but has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically elected chamber. [ 2 ]