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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).
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 source described her appointment as "impossible to defend, even as somebody who broadly thinks the current peerage system is right". [20] On 12 July 2023, Owen was created Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, of Alderley Edge in the County of Cheshire. [21] She sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer.
List of current members of the House of Lords; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of law life peerages (1876–2009) List of life peerages (1377–1876)
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 Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office in gross post among the Cholmondeley, Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Carington families.. In 1902 it was ruled by the House of Lords that the then joint office holders (the 1st Earl of Ancaster, the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire) had to agree on a deputy to exercise the office, subject ...
John Humphrey Arnott Pakington, 7th Baron Hampton (born 24 December 1964), is a British hereditary peer and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.. Lord Hampton became a member of the House in October 2022, being elected in a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election.
[30] [31] She becomes the Green Party of England and Wales' second current member of the unelected House of Lords, joining Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb. She was introduced to the Lords on 15 October 2019 by Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb and John Bird, Baron Bird, [32] and made her maiden speech on 17 October 2019. [33]