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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.
This is a list of current members of the House of Lords, ... Women's rights campaigner, CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK: Lord Gold: 1 February 2011 Conservative
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Members of the British House of Lords. It includes Members of the British House of Lords that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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
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.
There are currently 826 sitting members of the House of Lords, [1] of which 667 are life peers (as of 2 October 2023) [78] and 228 are women (see:Women in the House of Lords). An additional 23 Lords are ineligible to participate, including two peers who are constitutionally disqualified as members of the Judiciary.
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 ...