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25 June 2021 [c] 2021 Lord Bishop of Chichester: Martin Warner: 3 January 2018 2012 Lord Bishop of Derby: Libby Lane: 28 March 2019 [d] 2019 Lord Bishop of Gloucester: Rachel Treweek: 7 September 2015 [e] 2015 Lord Bishop of Guildford: Andrew Watson: 16 December 2021 2014 Lord Bishop of Hereford: Richard Jackson: 15 November 2023 2020 Lord ...
List of members of the House of Lords may refer to: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers;
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.
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 electorates are either the whole membership of the House of Lords (including life peers), or a party group of sitting hereditary peers. A standing order of the House, approved prior to the commencement of the House of Lords Act 1999, mandates that the 90 elected hereditary peers consist of: [1] 2 peers elected by the Labour hereditary peers
Harlech became a member of the House in July 2021, being elected in a hereditary peers' by-election by the whole House. [9] He took the oath on 22 July 2021. [ 10 ] He made his maiden speech on 28 October 2021 during a debate on the Land Use Framework; talking about his father, being an army reservist, his life before joining the Lords and his ...
John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith PC (born 4 October 1944), is a Scottish politician and life peer who has served as Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, since 2021. He was a member of Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative Party from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West ...
Members of the House of Lords who wished to stand for election were required to have a proposer and a seconder. The alternative vote system was used in the election and all members who had taken the oath in the current parliament by 25 March 2021 and were not on leave of absence, disqualified or suspended from the House were eligible to stand and to vote.