The Peerage Act 1963 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permits female hereditary peers and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords and allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed.
John Anderson Cunningham,Baron Cunningham of Felling,PC,DL is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years,serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election,and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.
The House of Lords Act 1999 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords,one of the chambers of Parliament. The Act was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. For centuries,the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats;the Act removed such a right. However,as part of a compromise,the Act allowed ninety-two hereditary peers to remain in the House. Another ten were created life peers to enable them to remain in the House.
Eric Reginald Lubbock,4th Baron Avebury,was an English politician and human rights campaigner. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Orpington from 1962 to 1970. He then served in the House of Lords,having inherited the title of Baron Avebury in 1971,until his death. In 1999,when most hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords,he was elected by his fellow Liberal Democrats to remain. When he died,he was the longest serving Liberal Democrat peer.
Bruce Bernard Weatherill,Baron Weatherill,was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992.
The Kindertransport was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 children,most of them Jewish,from Germany,Austria,Czechoslovakia,Poland,and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes,hostels,schools,and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust. The programme was supported,publicised,and encouraged by the British government,which waived the visa immigration requirements that were not within the ability of the British Jewish community to fulfil. The British government placed no numerical limit on the programme;it was the start of the Second World War that brought it to an end,by which time about 10,000 kindertransport children had been brought to the country.
Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin,Baron Jenkin of Roding,was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government.
Margaret Alison of Mar,31st Countess of Mar,is a Scottish hereditary peer and politician. She was a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 1975 to 2020 and was one of 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the Lords in 1999. She is the holder of the original earldom of Mar,the oldest peerage title in the United Kingdom. She is the only suo jure countess and was the only female hereditary peer in the House of Lords from 2014 to 2020. She is also a farmer and former specialist goats cheesemaker in Great Witley,Worcestershire.
Joel Goodman Joffe,Baron Joffe,was a South African-born British lawyer and Labour peer in the House of Lords.
Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce,5th Baron Aberdare,,is a British nobleman,and since 2009 a crossbench hereditary peer elected under the House of Lords Act 1999.
Norman Reginald Warner,Baron Warner,,is a British former civil servant and member of the House of Lords. A career civil servant from 1960,he was created a life peer in 1998. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Health from 2003 to 2007,and Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2005 to 2007. He has also been an adviser to a number of consulting companies. In October 2015,Warner resigned the Labour whip and became a non-affiliated and then crossbench member of the House of Lords,serving until his retirement in 2024.
Albert Edward Oram,Baron Oram was a Co-operative and Labour politician in the United Kingdom.
Molly Christine Meacher,Baroness Meacher,known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard,is a British life peer and former social worker.
Muriel Winifred Turner,Baroness Turner of Camden was a British Labour politician and trade union leader.
John Alfred Stoddard Nash,Baron Nash is a Venture Capitalist,also formerly a Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools. Nash was chair of the British Venture Capital Association (1988–89),on the board of the Conservative think-tank,the Centre for Policy Studies and a Trustee of the Education Policy Institute. With his wife,Caroline Nash,he founded the charity Future,which was appointed by the Labour Government in 2008 to sponsor Future Academies,a trust managing school academies in London and Hertfordshire with a total of 7000 pupils;he is joint chairman of the governors of Pimlico Academy,one of the institutions run by Future Academies. Future also supports other organisations focussed on less advantaged children and young people.
All-Party Groups (APGs) within United Kingdom politics are informal,cross-party,interest groups of the UK Parliament. APGs have at least 20 members who are all Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords. The All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) is a subject group of the APG whose purpose is to bring together non-religious humanist,atheist and agnostic MPs and peers to discuss matters of shared interest.
Charles William Harley Hay,16th Earl of Kinnoull,styled Viscount Dupplin until 2013,is a Scottish hereditary peer and Crossbench member of the House of Lords,who serves as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers.
Kevin Joseph Maximilian Shinkwin,Baron Shinkwin is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.
Richard Hubert Gordon Gilbey,12th Baron Vaux of Harrowden,is a British hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.
The father of the House is a title that is bestowed on the member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who has the longest continuous service. If two or more members have the same length of current uninterrupted service,then whoever was sworn in earliest,as listed in Hansard,is named as Father of the House.
