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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; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man).
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 Bill, if passed, will eliminate all 92 of the hereditary peers from the House of Lords; the Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain will continue their ceremonial functions in the House of Lords, but will cease to be members. [3] The sections of the Bill as introduced are listed below: [4] Section 1: Exclusion of remaining hereditary peers.
3 Apr 1931 29 May 1946: Con. [448] The Lord Ashcombe: Henry Cubitt: 28 Oct 1962 8 Dec 1964: Con. [449] The Lord Crawshaw: David Brooks [j] 7 Nov 1997 8 Dec 1998: Con. [450] The Lord Amherst of Hackney: William Cecil 22 Jul 1980 16 Dec 1981: XB [451] The Lord Newton: Richard Legh [j] 16 Jun 1992 9 Dec 1992: Con. [452] The Lord Dunleath: Brian ...
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
This data template outputs the current number of peers (and bishops) of each party or parliamentary group in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, to facilitate site-wide updating. For updating this template, numbers can be sourced from the "Lords membership" page of the UK Parliament website.