The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain,the party established a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule. The two parties formed the ten-year-long coalition Unionist Government 1895–1905 but kept separate political funds and their own party organisations until a complete merger between the Liberal Unionist and the Conservative parties was agreed to in May 1912.
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton,Baron Shackleton,was a British geographer,Royal Air Force officer and Labour Party politician.
Alan Thomas Howarth,Baron Howarth of Newport,,is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative before defecting to Labour in 1995,he is one of few politicians in recent years to have served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour life peer.
John Patrick Aubone Burnett,Baron Burnett is a British Liberal Democrat politician,a member of the House of Lords,and was a Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon between 1997 and 2005 general elections.
John David Beckett Taylor,Baron Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1996,at the age of 44,he became one of the youngest people in the upper house.
George Turner is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Thomas Michael Jopling,Baron Jopling,PC,DL is a British politician who sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.
Ivor Seward Richard,Baron Richard,was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 until 1974. He was also a member of the European Commission and latterly sat as a life peer in the House of Lords.
In the United Kingdom,life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited,in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister. With the exception of the Dukedom of Edinburgh awarded for life to Prince Edward in 2023,all life peerages conferred since 2009 have been created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 with the rank of baron and entitle their holders to sit and vote in the House of Lords,presuming they meet qualifications such as age and citizenship. The legitimate children of a life peer appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958 are entitled to style themselves with the prefix "The Honourable",although they cannot inherit the peerage itself. Prior to 2009,life peers of baronial rank could also be so created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 for senior judges.
The Carlton Club is a private members' club in the St James's area of London,England. It was the original home of the Conservative Party before the creation of Conservative Central Office. Membership of the club is by nomination and election only.
Robert Norman William Blake,Baron Blake,,was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli,and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill,which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson,Baron Pearson of Rannoch is a British businessman and politician who was leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2009 to 2010. He currently sits as an independent member of the House of Lords. A Eurosceptic,he was a staunch supporter of pro-Brexit campaign Leave Means Leave.
Syed Salah Kamall,Baron Kamall is a British politician and academic,who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care (2021–22).
Daniel William Finkelstein,Baron Finkelstein,is a British journalist,author,political advisor and politician. He is a former executive editor of The Times, where he remains a weekly political columnist,and has been a regular columnist at The Jewish Chronicle since 2010. Finkelstein was formerly an advisor to Prime Minister John Major and leader of the Conservative Party William Hague. Since 2013 he has sat as a Conservative Peer of the House of Lords.
The 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in two supplements to The London Gazette of 1 August 1997 and marked the May 1997 resignation of the Prime Minister,John Major.
Desmond Anderson Harvie Banks,Baron Banks,CBE was a British Liberal Party politician.
Stephen Gilbert,Baron Gilbert of Panteg is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.
On 25 June 1990,the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at the Carlton Club,a club in London popular among MPs and supporters of the ruling Conservative Party. The bombing injured 20 people,one of whom,Lord Kaberry of Adel,died a year later. The ground floor collapsed to the basement and windows were shattered. The blast was felt up to half a mile away.
