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.
David George Clark,Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL is a British Labour Party politician,former cabinet minister and author.
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston,Baron Winston is a British professor,medical doctor,scientist,television presenter and Labour peer.
Ivor Seward Richard,Baron Richard,was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 until 1974. He was also a member of the European Commission and latterly sat as a life peer in the House of Lords.
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.
Thomas Frederick Peart,Baron Peart,PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.
Malcolm Newton Shepherd,2nd Baron Shepherd,Baron Shepherd of Spalding,was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
John Stephen Monks,Baron Monks is a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords and former trade unionist leader,who served as the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK from 1993 until 2003. He also served as the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) from 2007 until 2011,having been made a Life peer in 2010.
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh,Baron Oxburgh is an English geologist,geophysicist and politician. Lord Oxburgh is well known for his work as a public advocate in both academia and the business world in addressing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative energy sources as well as his negative views on the consequences of current oil consumption.
Norman Harold Lever,Baron Lever of Manchester,PC was a British barrister and Labour Party politician.
Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya,Baron Bhattacharyya,,was a British-Indian engineer,educator and government advisor. In 1980,he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. In 2004,he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords.
Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle,Baron Hoyle,,was a British politician and life peer who was chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 1997 and a lord-in-waiting from 1997 to 1999. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Nelson and Colne from 1974 to 1979 and Warrington North from 1981 to 1997.
Thomas Murray Elder,Baron Elder,was a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. A childhood friend of Gordon Brown,he served as the general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party,the chief of staff to Labour leader John Smith,and a special adviser to Donald Dewar at the Scottish Office.
Robert William Dixon-Smith,Baron Dixon-Smith,DL,is a British farmer and Conservative Party politician. Lord Dixon-Smith is a former Shadow Minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Anthony Stephen Grabiner,Baron Grabiner,KC is a British barrister,academic administrator,and life peer. He is head of chambers at One Essex Court,a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple,and was the Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn for 2013. From 2014 to 2021 he served as the Master of Clare College,Cambridge and,since 2015,he has served as the President of the University of Law. Grabiner was non-executive chairman of Taveta Investments Ltd,the holding company of Sir Philip Green behind Arcadia Group from 2002 to December 2015.
Thomas Taylor,Baron Taylor of Blackburn,was a businessman and Labour politician. He was a member of Blackburn Council for 22 years,serving as its leader from 1972 to 1976. In 1978,he became a member of the House of Lords. In 2009,he was suspended from the House,along with Baron Truscott,as a result of the cash for influence scandal,the first peers to be suspended since the 17th century.
Rupert Bertram Mitford,6th Baron Redesdale,Baron Mitford,is a British hereditary peer,Liberal Democrat politician and member of the prominent Mitford family.
Peter Richard Charles Smith,Baron Smith of Leigh was a British Labour local politician and life peer.
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.
Christopher Francis Fox,Baron Fox,is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
