as one of the Sheriffs of the City of London in 1708–1709. Peers was born to Edmund Peers (d. 1681) and Mary Walden, in 1661, of the parish of the St...

Sir Charles Peers Davidson (January 1841 – January 29, 1929) was a Canadian lawyer and judge. Born in Huntingdon, Lower Canada to Captain Alexander Davidson...

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

Sir Charles Reed Peers CBE FBA FRIBA FSA (22 September 1868 – 16 November 1952) was an English architect, archaeologist and preservationist. After a 10-year...

hereditary peers of the House of Lords since the reforms of the House of Lords Act 1999. The Act excluded all hereditary peers who were not also life peers except...

In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the...

Charles Ernest Peers (1875, Belfast, Ireland – 1944, Higgovale, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African artist. Peers spent his youth in Liverpool...

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...

The Paladins, also called the Twelve Peers, are twelve legendary knights, the foremost members of Charlemagne's court in the 8th century. They first appear...

that the envelopes had been received, Peers destroyed the third map, which he had been keeping at his bank. Peers later received a suggestion via the Office...

The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of August 2023, there are 805 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal...

title holders are termed peers of the Realm. The peerage's fundamental roles are ones of law making and governance, with peers being eligible (although...

hereditary peers that belonged to that party in 1999: Conservative Party: 42 peers Labour Party: 2 peers Liberal Democrats: 3 peers Crossbenchers: 28 peers Of...

Lords. These peers also remained as representative peers and were not replaced until their deaths. List of Scottish representative peers Also inherited...

Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, DL (born 20 May 1964), styled Viscount Althorp between 1975 and 1992, is a British peer, author, journalist...

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles was born...

parliament grew, Charles took the unusual step of summoning a great council of peers. By the time it met, on 24 September at York, Charles had resolved to...

selected by the subject, but not by any of their peers, go in this quadrant. These are things the peers are either unaware of, or that are untrue but for...

legislature, all Scottish Peers had been entitled to sit. From 1707 to 1963 there were sixteen Scottish representative peers, all elected from among the...

David Charles Robert Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland (born 8 May 1959), is a British hereditary peer and landowner. Rutland is the elder son of the 10th...

India in 1898. Peers of Ireland have precedence below peers of England, Scotland, and Great Britain of the same rank, and above peers of the United Kingdom...

Charles William Harley Hay, 16th Earl of Kinnoull DL (born 20 December 1962), styled Viscount Dupplin until 2013, is a Scottish hereditary peer and Crossbench...

Charles Peregrine Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon (born 14 August 1975), styled as Lord Courtenay from 1998 until 2015, is an English hereditary peer and...

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...

French crown, the roster of the Twelve Peers had never been complete. By 1297, there were only three lay peers — the duke of Burgundy, the duke of Guyenne...

by-election to fill a vacancy among the ranks of the crossbench peers. Only hereditary peers are eligible to stand in this election, and only the 31 currently...

King's Daughter, but Grieg withdrew it. Peer Gynt (work by Grieg), on Encyclopedia Britannica Hoffer, Charles (2015). Music Listening Today, Cengage Advantage...

Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, 9th Prince of Waterloo, 10th Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, 9th Duke of Victoria, GE, OBE, DL (born...

Chamber of Peers was created which was similar to the British House of Lords, and it met at the Palais du Luxembourg. This new Chamber of Peers acted as...

Orian (see source note), his son-in-law, Thornton Davidson (son of Charles Peers Davidson), his secretary, Mr. Vivian Payne, and a maid, Miss Mary Anne...