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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
Former MEP for North West England (2014–2020) Lord Griffiths of Burry Port: 30 June 2004 Labour Life peer Former president of the Methodist Conference: Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach: 5 February 1991 Conservative Life peer Vice-president of the Nature in Art trust and vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel: 8 ...
Lord Chancellor (1068–present) Lord President of the Council (1678–present) Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1307–present) Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (and preceding positions, 1889–2001) Minister of Technology (1964–1970) First Lord of the Admiralty (1709–1964) See also Admiralty. Paymaster General (1834–present)
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.
From 1999 to 2010 the Attorney General for England and Wales was a member of the House of Lords; as of July 2024, the Attorney General is once again a peer. The House of Lords remains a source for junior ministers and members of government. Like the House of Commons, the Lords also has a Government Chief Whip as well as several Junior Whips ...
(Lord Ellesmere from 1603; Viscount Brackley from 1616) 6 May 1596 5 March 1617 James I (1603–1625) Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper to 1618 (Lord Verulam from 1618 Viscount St Alban from 1621) 7 March 1617 1621 In commission: Commissioners to hear causes in the Court of Chancery. Julius Caesar and others; Commissioners to hear causes in the House ...
Prime Minister (joint with the HM Treasury – the prime minister is the First Lord of the Treasury ex officio) [n 1] [1] First Lord of the Treasury; First Secretary of State; Minister for the Civil Service; Minister for the Union; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Deputy Prime Minister
Following elections to the assembly or parliament, the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats is invited to form a government. The monarch (in the United Kingdom) or governor / lieutenant governor (in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies) appoints the head of government, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible ...