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 allowed 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.
David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home,15th Earl of Home,was a British banker and hereditary peer. He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his death in 2022.
Dudley Danvers Granville Coutts Ryder,7th Earl of Harrowby,TD,known as Viscount Sandon from 1956 to 1987,was a British hereditary peer who was deputy chairman of Coutts bank and its parent company,NatWest.
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.
Thomas Henry Ashton,4th Baron Ashton of Hyde,,is a British hereditary peer and former insurance broker who served as Chief Whip of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 2019 to 2022. He succeeded to his family's peerage title on 2 August 2008.
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.
John Polson Cameron Corbett,4th Baron Rowallan,is a British hereditary peer. He is the son of Arthur Corbett,3rd Baron Rowallan,and Eleanor Mary Boyle. He is usually known as Johnny Corbett or Johnny Rowallan.
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.
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.
