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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 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 Lords from 1963.
Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in several departments and former Minister of State for Defence Procurement: Lord Bailey of Paddington: 10 July 2023 Conservative Life peer Member of the London Assembly (since 2016), journalist and political adviser Lord Baker of Dorking: 16 June 1997 Conservative Life peer
It includes Hereditary members of the British House of Lords that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category contains female hereditary peers since the passage of the Peerage Act 1963 (which allowed women to sit in the House of Lords), including those who have been elected under the ...
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.
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.
She had applied for the role after hearing a member of the House of Lords speak on the radio about the need for more peers who could understand scientific evidence. [10] [11] She was created Baroness Freeman of Steventon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxfordshire, on 5 June 2024, [12] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 29 July as a ...
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