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.
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.
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.
Kenneth Wilfred Baker,Baron Baker of Dorking,is a British politician,Conservative Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1997,and a cabinet minister,including holding the offices of Home Secretary,Education Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman. He is a life member of the Tory Reform Group.
John Haggitt Charles Patten,Baron Patten,is a former Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxford and 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. He was a Member of Parliament from 1961 to 1997,and served in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet;he then served in the House of Lords.
Henry Labouchere,1st Baron Taunton,PC was a prominent British Whig and Liberal Party politician of the mid-19th century.
Eric Graham Varley,Baron Varley,was a British Labour Party politician and cabinet minister on the right-wing of the party. He was the Member of Parliament for Chesterfield from 1964 to 1984.
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.
