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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 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.
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
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 ...
First female member of the House of Lords. Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, Baroness Swanborough, Crossbench peer, 1958–71; First female Commons Government Whip. Harriet Slater, Labour MP, 1964–66 [3] First female Lords Government Whip. Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, Labour Lords Chief Whip, 1973–82
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.
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;