The House of Lords,formally The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled,is the second chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment,heredity or official function. Like the House of Commons,it meets in the Palace of Westminster.
The Lord Chancellor,formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain,is the highest-ranking among the Great Officers of State in England in the United Kingdom,nominally outranking the prime minister. The lord chancellor is appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. Prior to their Union into the Kingdom of Great Britain,there were separate lord chancellors for the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland;there were lord chancellors of Ireland until 1922.
William Wyndham Grenville,1st Baron Grenville,,styled as Lord Grenville from 1790,was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807,but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister,his most significant achievement was the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However,his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year.
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville,1st Marquess of Buckingham,was a British statesman.
The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British administration in Ireland. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant,and officially the "Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant",from the early 19th century until the end of British rule he was effectively the government minister with responsibility for governing Ireland,roughly equivalent to the role of a Secretary of State,such as the similar role of Secretary of State for Scotland. Usually it was the Chief Secretary,rather than the Lord Lieutenant,who sat in the British Cabinet. The Chief Secretary was ex officio President of the Local Government Board for Ireland from its creation in 1872.
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 North West Hampshire from 1997 and Ealing Acton from 1974 to 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 Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.
David Charles Waddington,Baron Waddington,was a British politician and barrister.
In the United Kingdom there are at least six Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,serving as a commission for the ancient office of Treasurer of the Exchequer. The board consists of the First Lord of the Treasury,the Second Lord of the Treasury,and four or more junior lords to whom this title is usually applied.
Richard Napier Luce,Baron Luce,,is a British politician. He is a former Lord Chamberlain to the Queen,serving from 2000 to 2006,and has been Governor of Gibraltar,a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1971 to 1992,and government minister,and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
The Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Great Britain is a senior civil servant who is the head of the Crown Office.
John Donkin Dormand,Baron Dormand of Easington was a British educationist and Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Easington in County Durham,in the north-east of England. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Easington constituency from 1970 until his retirement in 1987.
Sir John Christopher Sainty,KCB,FSA is a retired British parliamentary official who was Clerk of the Parliaments from 1983 to 1990.
Sir Michael Addison John Wheeler-Booth was a British public servant and Clerk of the Parliaments. He was educated at Leighton Park School,Reading,and Magdalen College,Oxford.
Sir George Phillips Coldstream was a British barrister and civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from 4 June 1954 to 5 April 1968. Born to an upper-middle-class family,Coldstream was educated at Rugby School and Oriel College,Oxford,where he read law. In 1930 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn,but worked as a barrister for only four years before he was recruited into the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel,where he served as Assistant to the Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury.
Sir Michael Graham Pownall,is a retired British public servant. From 2007 to 2011,he was Clerk of the Parliaments in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.
Sir John Michael Davies is the former Clerk of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom. He succeeded Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth on 4 January 1997 and retired on 14 July 2003 succeeded by Paul Hayter. Sir Michael had overseen significant changes to the workings and Membership of the House of Lords related to the changes brought about by the passage of the House of Lords Act.
Sir David Richard Beamish,is a British public servant who was the Clerk of the Parliaments,the chief clerk in the House of Lords,between 16 April 2011 and 15 April 2017.
Robert James Rogers,Baron Lisvane,is a British life peer and retired public servant. He served as Clerk of the House of Commons from October 2011 until August 2014.
The Crown Office,also known as the Crown Office in Chancery,is a section of the Ministry of Justice. It has custody of the Great Seal of the Realm,and has certain administrative functions in connection with the courts and the judicial process,as well as functions relating to the electoral process for House of Commons elections,to the keeping of the Roll of the Peerage,and to the preparation of royal documents such as warrants required to pass under the royal sign-manual,fiats,letters patent,etc. In legal documents,the Crown Office refers to the office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
Letters Patent,in the United Kingdom,are legal instruments generally issued by the monarch granting an office,right,title,or status to a person. Letters Patent have also been used for the creation of corporations or offices,for granting city status,for granting coat of arms,and for granting royal assent.
