The Right Honourable is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom,the former British Empire,and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom,Canada,New Zealand,and,to a lesser extent,Australia.
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.
The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights is one of the ancient livery companies of the City of London.
Douglas Martin Hogg,3rd Viscount Hailsham,Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe,,is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party,he served in John Major's second government as Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997,and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.
George Samuel Knatchbull Young,Baron Young of Cookham,,known as Sir George Young,6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015,having represented Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997 and North West Hampshire from 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions:as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997;as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012;and as Conservative Chief Whip from 2012 to 2014.
Viscount Tenby,of Bulford in the County of Pembroke,is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,created in 1957 for former Home Secretary,the Hon. Gwilym Lloyd George,second son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George,1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.
Baron Mountevans,of Chelsea in the County of London,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,created in 1945 in favour of the celebrated Antarctic explorer,Admiral Sir Edward Evans. As of 2017 the title is held by his grandson,the fourth Baron,who succeeded his brother in 2014.
Baron Trevethin,of Blaengawney in the County of Monmouth,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for the prominent judge Sir Alfred Lawrence,Lord Chief Justice of England from 1921 to 1922.
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.
Merlin Charles Sainthill Hanbury-Tracy,7th Baron Sudeley,was a British hereditary peer,author,and monarchist. In 1941,at the age of two,he succeeded his first cousin once removed,Richard Hanbury-Tracy,6th Baron Sudeley,to the Barony of Sudeley and until the reforms of House of Lords Act 1999,he regularly sat as a hereditary peer.
Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock,18th Baron Berkeley,Baron Gueterbock,,otherwise known as Tony Berkeley,is a British aristocrat and Labour parliamentarian.
Nicholas John Albert Fairfax,14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron is a British peer and Conservative politician. He is the current holder of the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron,succeeding his father,Thomas Fairfax,13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron,in 1964.
(Jenico) Nicholas Dudley Preston,17th Viscount Gormanston,is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British hereditary peer,who sat in the House of Lords until 1999.
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.
Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby,4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede,Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton,is a British peer and Labour Party politician.
Geoffrey Robert James Borwick,5th Baron Borwick,is a British businessman,hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.
By-elections to the House of Lords occur when vacancies arise among seats assigned to hereditary peers due to death,resignation,or disqualification. Candidates for these by-elections are limited to holders of hereditary peerages,and their electorates are made up of sitting Lords;in most cases the electorate are those sitting hereditary peers of the same party affiliation as the departed peer.
Thomas Arthur Ponsonby,3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede,was a British hereditary peer and Labour Party politician.
Thomas Birkett,3rd Baron Birkett is a British hereditary peer,and photographer.
Richard Andvord Evans,2nd Baron Mountevans was a British peer and business man,a member of the House of Lords from 1957 until his death.
