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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
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
Women Lords Spiritual (8 P) Pages in category "Female members of the House of Lords" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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 ...
Rishi Sunak served as Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024. These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Parliament, and other British devolved bodies, as well as members of the non-elected House of Lords.
Baroness Amos, who had been serving as Foreign Office minister and as a spokesperson in the Lords for International Development was swiftly announced as Short's replacement. [12] Her appointment made her "the UK's first black woman cabinet minister" and was an unusual example of a government department being headed by a member of the House of ...
First black Member of the Welsh Assembly. Vaughan Gething, Labour and Co-op AM for Cardiff South and Penarth, 2011–present; First black Lord Mayor of London. James Townsend, Lord Mayor of London 1772-74 [13] First black woman directly elected mayor. Brenda Dacres, Mayor of Lewisham, 2024-present [4]