The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house,the House of Commons,it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London,England. One of the oldest institutions in the world,its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century.
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr,13th Marquess of Lothian,Baron Kerr of Monteviot,,commonly known as Michael Ancram,is a British politician and peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited the marquessate in 2004.
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.
Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan,2nd Earl of Stockton,styled as Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden between 1984 and 1986,is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the eldest son of the Conservative politician Maurice Macmillan and grandson of prime minister Harold Macmillan,1st Earl of Stockton.
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.
Baron Brabazon of Tara,of Sandwich in the County of Kent,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 April 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative politician John Moore-Brabazon. Moore-Brabazon was a descendant through a female line of The 7th Earl of Meath. His father,Major John Arthur Henry Moore,had assumed the additional surname of Brabazon in 1866 by Royal Licence. As of 2017 the title is held by the first Baron's grandson,the third Baron,who succeeded his father in 1974. He is also a Conservative politician and was one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999,retiring in 2022.
Ivon Anthony Moore-Brabazon,3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara,,is a British Conservative politician.
"Tony's Cronies" was a term in British politics and media given to people who were viewed as being given positions of power because of their personal friendships with Prime Minister Tony Blair,during his premiership between 1997 and 2007. These included those granted life peerages and public positions based on their friendship with Blair rather than their individual merits. The phrase was created by the Conservative Party after the 1997 United Kingdom general election and was continually used in the media throughout Blair's premiership.
William Matthew Wand Addison,4th Viscount Addison is a British peer. The son of Michael Addison,3rd Viscount Addison,he succeeded the Viscountcy on the death of his father in 1992.
Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley,6th Baron Wrottesley,is an Irish sportsman and British peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Following the enactment of the House of Lords Act 1999,the number of hereditary peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords was reduced to ninety-two. The Earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain were entitled to sit ex officio;the remaining ninety were elected by all the hereditary peers before the passing of the reform. Since November 2002,by-elections have been held to fill vacancies left by deaths,resignations or disqualifications of those peers. Since the passing of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014,by-elections have also been held to fill vacancies left by the retirements of those peers.
David Hacking,3rd Baron Hacking,is a British arbitrator,barrister and hereditary peer.
Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore,7th Baron Harlech,is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords. He has been serving as a Lord in Waiting since September 2022.
Jonathan William Berry,5th Viscount Camrose is a British hereditary peer and Conservative politician.
Massey John Henry Lopes,4th Baron Roborough is a British hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Edward Sebastian Grigg,4th Baron Altrincham is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords. He was educated at Oriel College,Oxford and was a member of the Bullingdon Club along with David Cameron and Boris Johnson,appearing top left in a well-known 1987 photograph of the club's members.
Guy Rhys John Mansfield,6th Baron Sandhurst,,is a British barrister,hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Mark Edward Cubitt,5th Baron Ashcombe,is a British hereditary peer and Conservative politician. In an October 2022 by-election,he was elected to replace The Earl of Home in the House of Lords following Home's death in August. He is a second cousin of Queen Camilla.
Edward Mowbray Nicholas Howard,8th Earl of Effingham is a hereditary peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom and an elected Conservative member of the House of Lords.
