Peerages in the United Kingdom form a legal system comprising both hereditary and lifetime titles,composed of various ranks,and within the framework of the Constitution of the United Kingdom form a constituent part of the legislative process and the British honours system. The British monarch is considered the fount of honour and is notionally the only person who can grant peerages,though there are many conventions about how this power is used,especially at the request of the British government. The term peerage can be used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titled nobility,and individually to refer to a specific title. British peerage title holders are termed peers of the Realm.
Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in Cumberland,Cumbria,England. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207.
The Peerage Act 1963 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permits women peeresses and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords and allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed.
Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham is a British politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for Workington from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1994 to 1999.
In the United Kingdom,representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Until 1999,all members of the Peerage of England held the right to sit in the House of Lords;they did not elect a limited group of representatives. All peers who were created after 1707 as Peers of Great Britain and after 1801 as Peers of the United Kingdom held the same right to sit in the House of Lords.
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 did permit ninety-two hereditary peers to remain in the House. Another ten were created life peers to enable them to remain in the House.
Allerdale was a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria,England,with borough status. Its council was based in Workington and the borough has a population of 93,492 according to the 2001 census,increasing to 96,422 at the 2011 Census.
David George Clark,Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL is a British Labour Party politician,former cabinet minister and author.
Robin Corbett,Baron Corbett of Castle Vale was a British Labour Party politician and journalist.
The history of the British peerage,a system of nobility found in the United Kingdom,stretches over the last thousand years. The current form of the British peerage has been a process of development. While the ranks of baron and earl predate the British peerage itself,the ranks of duke and marquess were introduced to England in the 14th century. The rank of viscount came later,in the mid-15th century. Peers were summoned to Parliament,forming the House of Lords.
The British peerage is governed by a body of law that has developed over several centuries. Much of this law has been established by a few important cases,and some of the more significant of these are addressed in this article.
The privilege of peerage is the body of special privileges belonging to members of the British peerage. It is distinct from parliamentary privilege,which applies only to those peers serving in the House of Lords and the members of the House of Commons,while Parliament is in session and forty days before and after a parliamentary session.
Thomas Frederick Peart,Baron Peart,PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.
Workington is a constituency in Cumbria represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Mark Jenkinson,a Conservative.
In 1974,under the Local Government Act 1972,the administrative counties of Cumberland and Westmorland were abolished,and were combined with parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire to form the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria.
The 1976 Workington by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Workington in Cumbria on 4 November 1976. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Richard Page,who became the first non-Labour MP in the constituency’s history.
The 2001 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 2 June 2001 prior to the General Election of the same year by the Prime Minister,Tony Blair.
Mark Ian Jenkinson is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington since 2019.
