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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.
In 2005, a cross-party group of senior MPs (Kenneth Clarke, Paul Tyler, Tony Wright, George Young, and Robin Cook) published a report proposing that 70% of members of the House of Lords should be elected – each member for a single long term – by the single transferable vote system. Most of the remainder were to be appointed by a Commission ...
Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 (some of whom have been elected to the House after being removed from it in 1999), and remaining law life peers.
She was also the first non-Protestant woman elected to Parliament, having converted to Catholicism in 1917. [2] She abstained from the House of Commons. Alice Cullen, Labour MP for Glasgow Gorbals, 1948–69. She was the first female Catholic MP to take her seat. First female member of the House of Lords
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 ...
Three newly elected lawmakers representing the LGBTQ community will make history Friday when they are sworn in to the 119th Congress, marking several firsts in the House of Representatives. Sarah ...
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