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Declined a peerage: Oldham: He and his male line descendants are in the line of the Dukedom of Marlborough. Twice offered and declined a Dukedom. His widow was created Baroness Spencer-Churchill for life in 1965. Manchester North West: Dundee: Epping: Woodford: Sir Edward Heath: Declined a peerage: Bexley: Sidcup: Old Bexley and Sidcup: Sir ...
The Earl of Home (c1963), the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to serve from the House of Lords. Peers in the House of Lords can serve in the British government, when invited to do so, as ministers including within the Great Offices of State (for example Lord Cameron who served as Foreign Secretary in the Premiership of Rishi Sunak).
United Kingdom: Ordered according to date of creation [p] [q] [r] Younger sons of royal dukes who are not already ranked higher Lord Nicholas Windsor (second son of the Duke of Kent) Eldest sons of marquesses according to the precedence of the peerage holders Eldest sons of eldest sons of dukes according to the precedence of the peerage holders
Former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. Life peerages are customarily offered to all former British prime ministers when they step down as a Member of Parliament (MPs). The last former prime minister to accept a peerage was Theresa May in 2024 upon announcing her decision to step down from the House of Commons.
This is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 from 2010 to 2024, during the tenures of Conservative prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022, two days after appointing Truss.
Name of prime minister (including peerage title, if any) and heraldic blazon Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 2007–2010 No arms known. As a Scotsman and member of Clan Broun, his arms if matriculated by the Lord Lyon King of Arms would be based on a differenced version (see Scottish heraldry) of the Clan Chief's arms:
The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its effective creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Bonar Law, [10] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister.
[n 3] The prime minister was officially granted a place in the order of precedence in December 1905, and the first statutory reference to the Prime Minister was present in the Chequers Estate Act 1917, which specified Chequers as a prime-ministerial residence. Public recognition of the existence of a 'Prime Minister's Office' in the Civil ...