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.
Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy,Baron McAvoy,is a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords since 2010. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Rutherglen from 1987 to 2005,and Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2005 to 2010.
Joyce Anne Anelay,Baroness Anelay of St Johns,,is a British Conservative Party politician,previously serving as Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Lady Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry,after the 2017 reshuffle.
The Clerk of the Parliaments is the chief clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The position has existed since at least 1315,and duties include preparing the minutes of Lords proceedings,advising on proper parliamentary procedure and pronouncing the Royal Assent. Many of the Clerk's duties are now fulfilled by his deputies and the Clerk of the Parliaments' Office.
General John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton,Baron Houghton of Richmond,is a retired senior British Army officer and former Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) of the British Armed Forces. He was appointed CDS in July 2013,following the retirement of General Sir David Richards. He served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion,the Green Howards in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and later became Commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland. He deployed as Senior British Military Representative and Deputy Commanding General,Multi-National Force –Iraq during the Iraq War. Later,he became Chief of Joint Operations at Permanent Joint Headquarters and served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff until assuming the position of CDS. Houghton retired from the British Army in July 2016,and was succeeded as CDS by Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach.
Timothy John Stevens,is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Dunwich from 1995 to 1999 and was Bishop of Leicester from 1999 to 2015. From 2003 to 2015,he was a member of the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual and served as Convenor of the Lords Spiritual from 2009 to 2015.
Sir Paul David Grenville Hayter KCB LVO is a British public servant and was Clerk of the Parliaments from 2003 to 2007.
Sir Evan Paul Silk is a former clerk in the British House of Commons. He was formerly Clerk to the National Assembly for Wales from March 2001 to January 2007,the most senior official of the Assembly,and acted as the principal adviser to the Presiding Officer,responsible for all the services that are delivered to Assembly Members through the Assembly Parliamentary Service. In 2011,he was appointed as chair of the Commission on Devolution in Wales.In 2017 he was a member of the Expert Panel on Electoral Reform set up by the Assembly.
Sir Thomas Whinfield Scholar is a British civil servant currently serving as Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury. Scholar was previously the Prime Minister's Adviser on European and Global Issues in the Cabinet Office from 2013 to 2016.
Gavin Laurence Barwell,Baron Barwell is a British politician and former Downing Street Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister,Theresa May. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament for Croydon Central from 2010 until 2017.
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 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.
Geoffrey Robert James Borwick,5th Baron Borwick is a British businessman,hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.
Sir David Stephens KCB CVO was a British public servant and Clerk of the Parliaments from 1963 to 1974. He was educated at Winchester College,Christ Church,Oxford and The Queen's College,Oxford.
Sir Francis William Lascelles KCB,MC was a British public servant and Clerk of the Parliaments from 1953 to 1958.
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.
Sir Victor Martin Reeves Goodman KCB OBE MC was a British public servant and Clerk of the Parliaments from 1959 to 1963.
Ian James Duncan,Baron Duncan of Springbank is a Scottish politician serving as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords. A member of the Conservative Party,was formerly Minister for Climate Change in the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy and minister in the Northern Ireland Office. He initially joined the UK Government as a Scotland Office minister following the 2017 UK general election. Duncan was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 2014 to 2017. He is the only minister to have served in each of the UK Government's territorial offices.
Sir David Lionel Natzler is a former Clerk of the House of Commons,the principal constitutional adviser to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,and adviser on all its procedure and business. He was the 50th person to hold the role. Appointed by letters patent in March 2015,he was designated acting Clerk upon the retirement of Sir Robert Rogers in August 2014. He announced his retirement in a letter to the Speaker on 14 November 2018.
Sir Edward Christopher Ollard is a British public servant and former Clerk of the Parliaments.
