William Stephen Ian Whitelaw,1st Viscount Whitelaw,,was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions,most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as de facto Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1988. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1991.
George Kenneth Hotson Younger,4th Viscount Younger of Leckie,Baron Younger of Prestwick,,was a British Conservative Party politician and banker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr from 1964 to 1992. During the premiership of Margaret Thatcher,Younger served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986,and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
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.
Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith,2nd Baron Strathclyde,,known informally as Tom Strathclyde,is a British Conservative politician. Lord Strathclyde served in the political role of Leader of the House of Lords from the 2010 general election until January 2013 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,having been Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords (1998–2010). As of 2024,he is the most recent hereditary peer to serve as Leader of the Lords.
Archibald Gavin Hamilton,Baron Hamilton of Epsom,is a British Conservative Party politician. A member of the House of Lords,he served as Minister of State for the Armed Forces under John Major.
Earl of Lonsdale is a title that has been created twice in British history,firstly in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1784,and then in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1807,both times for members of the Lowther family.
Viscount Ullswater,of Campsea Ashe in the County of Suffolk,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for James Lowther upon his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was the eldest son of the Hon. William Lowther,third son of the Hon. Henry Lowther,second son of William Lowther,1st Earl of Lonsdale. The first Viscount lived to the age of 93,and was pre-deceased by both his eldest son the Hon. Christopher Lowther,a Conservative politician,and his eldest son's eldest son John Arthur Lowther (1910–1942),the title being inherited by his seven-year-old great-grandson,the second and current Viscount,in an extremely rare instance of a great-grandson succeeding his great-grandfather in a peerage. The second Viscount held office in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and since 2003 he has been one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Viscount Thurso,of Ulbster in the County of Caithness,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 June 1952 for the Scottish Liberal politician and former Secretary of State for Air,Sir Archibald Sinclair,4th Baronet. His son,the second Viscount,served as Lord Lieutenant of Caithness from 1973 to 1995.
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.
Richard Francis Needham,6th Earl of Kilmorey,Kt.,usually known as Sir Richard Needham,is a British Conservative politician. A Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1997,he served as Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 1985 and 1992 and as Minister of State for Trade between 1992 and 1995. From January 1961 until April 1977,he was entitled to use the courtesy title Viscount Newry and Mourne.
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.
James William Lowther,1st Viscount Ullswater,,was a British Conservative politician. He was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921. He was the longest-serving Speaker of the 20th century.
David Garro Trefgarne,2nd Baron Trefgarne,,is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the longest-serving member of the House of Lords.
Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer,2nd Baron Denham,,was a British Conservative politician,hereditary peer,writer and former member of the House of Lords. He was one of the few people to serve in the governments of five different prime ministers.
Oliver Michael Robert Eden,8th Baron Henley,6th Baron Northington PC,is a British hereditary peer and politician,who is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. He has served in a number of ministerial positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher,John Major,David Cameron and Theresa May,most recently as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
James Hugh William Lowther,7th Earl of Lonsdale,was a British peer.
John Gardiner,Baron Gardiner of Kimble is a British politician. He is a life peer,and has served as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since May 2021.
James Edward George Younger,5th Viscount Younger of Leckie,is an elected hereditary peer who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
John Jacob "Johnny" Astor VIII,3rd Baron Astor of Hever,,is an English businessman and politician from the Astor family. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative hereditary peer from 1986 to his retirement in 2022. Astor was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 2010 to 2015. Astor is a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.
