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As the vast majority of hereditary peerages can only be inherited by men, the number of peeresses in their own right is very small; only 18 out of 758 hereditary peers by succession, or 2.4%, were female, as of 1992. [16] All female hereditary peers succeeding after 1980 have been to English or Scottish peerages originally created before 1700.
This gradually diminished the numerical dominance of hereditary peers. The Act allowed for the creation of female peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords. The first four such women peers were: Barbara Wootton and Stella Isaacs, who were sworn in on 21 October 1958, and Katharine Elliot and Irene Curzon, who took office the next day. [3] [4]
They ruled that once a peer succeeds to a title, he cannot be deprived of it except by an act of Parliament, whatever the terms of the creation. Note, however, that it is possible to prevent a person from succeeding to a peerage in the first place, but not possible to deprive a person of a peerage after having succeeded to it.
The legitimate children of a life peer appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958 are entitled to style themselves with the prefix "The Honourable", although they cannot inherit the peerage itself. Prior to 2009, life peers of baronial rank could also be so created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 for senior judges (referred to as Law ...
She conferred hereditary viscountcies, earldoms and dukedoms on men, mostly during the first twelve years of her reign. She did not confer any marquessates, nor any titles in the peerage of Ireland. See also the preceding Category:Peers created by George VI and the succeeding Category:Peers created by Charles III
More than 1,600 life peerages have been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the Life Peerages Act 1958.. List of life peerages (1958–1979) Created under the premierships of Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, and James Callaghan
The last creation of a non-royal hereditary peer occurred in 1984; even then it was considered unusual. Life peers and 92 hereditary peers still retain the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, though their power is restricted and further reform of the House of Lords is under consideration.
The title Baron Russell of Killowen was created three times for father, son and grandson, all of them appointed to be Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. In 1900, the second baron married Mary Emily Ritchie, a daughter of the first (hereditary) Baron Ritchie of Dundee, of Welders, in the parish of Chalfont St. Giles, in the county of Buckingham (1905 ...