The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of November 2024, there are 801 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal...

Under the reforms of the House of Lords Act 1999, the majority of hereditary peers became ineligible to be members of the House of Lords, the upper house...

Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by...

their seats (hereditary peers); the Act removed such a right. However, as part of a compromise, the Act allowed ninety-two hereditary peers to remain in...

of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill is a Bill of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Bill, if passed, will entirely remove hereditary peers from voting...

calls from some hereditary peers' daughters to change the rules for hereditary peerages to match. In 2018 five daughters of hereditary peers took the government...

667 hereditary peers had their entitlement to sit in the House of Lords removed by the House of Lords Act 1999, based on the Orders of precedence in the...

assigned to hereditary peers due to death, resignation, or disqualification. Candidates for these by-elections are limited to holders of hereditary peerages...

either a political or non-political basis. Hereditary membership was limited in 1999 to 92 excepted hereditary peers: 90 elected through internal by-elections...

seats allocated by seniority. Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 (some of whom have...

either life peers or hereditary peers, although the hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords was abolished for all but ninety-two peers during the...

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...

This article is a list of hereditary peers who are or have been members of the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage under the Appellate Jurisdiction...

then, all peers of the United Kingdom were automatically members of the House of Lords. However, from that date, most of the hereditary peers ceased to...

are: a member of the peerages in the United Kingdom, who is a hereditary peer or a life peer a member of the Peerage of France (from French noble style "pair"...

(born 21 September 1967), styled Lord Bingham until 2016, is a British hereditary peer. George Charles Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan, was born on 21 September...

House of Lords Act 1999, a new form of representative peer was introduced to allow some hereditary peers to stay in the House of Lords. Under articles XXII...

the excepted hereditary peers were held in October and November 1999, before the House of Lords Act 1999 excluded most hereditary peers from the membership...

Robert Stonor, 8th Baron Camoys (born 10 September 1974), is a British hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Lord Camoys became...

the House of Lords (1998–2010). As of 2024, he is the most recent hereditary peer to serve as Leader of the Lords. Thomas Galbraith was born in Glasgow...

1950), styled as Viscount Lascelles until July 2011, is a British hereditary peer and film and television producer. David Henry George Lascelles was...

only child John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 5th Baron Acton. "Lord Acton: Hereditary peer who was instrumental in ending the inherited right to vote in the House...

Lords Bill in 1999 to strip voting rights from the mostly Conservative hereditary peers in the House of Lords, Onslow said that he was happy to force a division...

Russell, 28th Baron de Clifford (born 7 August 1966) is a British hereditary peer, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Russell was initially...

and 2002. He is a British peer who holds the hereditary office of Earl Marshal. As Duke of Norfolk, he is the most senior peer in the peerage of England...

lordship of Parliament with a seat in the House of Lords as an elected hereditary peer. Saltoun was born in Edinburgh on 18 October 1930, the daughter of...

for Surrey (1979–1984) and Surrey West (1984–1989) and has sat as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords since 2015. Wellington was born on 19 August...

Thurso, is a Scottish businessman, Liberal Democrat politician and hereditary peer who is notable for having served in the House of Lords both before...

1975), styled as Lord Courtenay from 1998 until 2015, is an English hereditary peer and barrister. He is a crossbench member of the House of Lords, having...

Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell (born 4 March 1960), is a British hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords, sitting as a crossbencher. He was...