The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons,it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London,England. Membership is generally attained for life through political or non-political appointments or by holding certain ecclesiastical offices. Since 1999,the House of Lords has also comprised a reduced number of hereditary peers elected by internal by-elections or appointed upon succession as the Earl Marshal or Lord Great Chamberlain. As such,since 1999,membership of the House of Lords has not been attainable on a purely hereditary basis.
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.
Peter Norman Fowler,Baron Fowler,is a British politician who served as a member of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major's ministries during the 1980s and 1990s. He held the office of Lord Speaker from 1 September 2016 to 30 April 2021.
James Michael Leathes Prior,Baron Prior,was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987,he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987,when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets,and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004.
Paul Peter Murphy,Baron Murphy of Torfaen,is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015,and served in the Cabinet from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2009 in the roles of Northern Irish and Welsh Secretary. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
Peter Leonard Brooke,Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville,was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he served in the Cabinet under prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major,and was a member of Parliament (MP) representing the Cities of London and Westminster from 1977 to 2001.
Brian Stanley Mawhinney,Baron Mawhinney,was a British Conservative politician. He was a member of the Cabinet from 1994 to 1997 and a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2005.
Alan Thomas Howarth,Baron Howarth of Newport,,is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative,he is one of few politicians in recent years to have served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour life peer.
Ian Bruce Lang,Baron Lang of Monkton,PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway,and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale,from 1979 to 1997.
John Haggitt Charles Patten,Baron Patten,is a former Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon.
John Roddick Russell MacGregor,Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market,,is a politician from the United Kingdom. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Norfolk from 1974 to 2001. He served in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1985–87),Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food (1987–89),Secretary of State for Education and Science (1989–90),Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council (1990–92),and Secretary of State for Transport (1992–94). He was made a life peer in 2001.
David Charles Waddington,Baron Waddington,was a British politician and barrister.
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger is a British Conservative Party politician and former property developer. He was MP for Bridgwater from 2001 until 2010,and since then has been MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria through his mother.
William John Biffen,Baron Biffen,,was a British Conservative Party politician. A member of the House of Lords,he was previously a Member of Parliament for over 35 years,and served in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.
Henry Labouchere,1st Baron Taunton,PC was a prominent British Whig and Liberal Party politician of the mid-19th century.
Sir Jeremy Paul Wright is a British lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General for England and Wales from 2014 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kenilworth and Southam,previously Rugby and Kenilworth,since the 2005 general election.
Jocelyn Edward Salis Simon,Baron Simon of Glaisdale,was a Law Lord in the United Kingdom,having been,by turns,a barrister,a commissioned officer in the British Army,a barrister again,a Conservative Party politician,a government minister,and a judge.
The 2001 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 2 June 2001 prior to the General Election of the same year by the Prime Minister,Tony Blair.
Andrew James Dunlop,Baron Dunlop is a British politician and life peer. From May 2015 to June 2017,he was the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland. He sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches.
