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

hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage List of excepted hereditary peers List of law life peerages (1876–2005) List of life peerages...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally...

only 92 hereditary peers, elected by and from all hereditary peers, are permitted to do so, unless they are also life peers. Peers are called to the House...

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

of Commons. Any peer who receives a writ of summons (which is in practice all life Peers bar Royal Peers, and some hereditary peers) may sit in the House...

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"...

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 of...

In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests (homophily), age, background, or social status...

Baroness Smith of Cluny, KC (born 4 May 1973), is a Scottish lawyer and life peer who has served as Advocate General for Scotland since 2024. She is the...

(1922–1994), MP, life peer, married Leslie Nast, three daughters Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (b. 1957), life peer, partner of Tim...

Robin Eames, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, was created a life peer in 1995 in recognition of his work for reconciliation and in the Northern...

with surreal ones." Peer Gynt has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in deliberate...

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...

Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. It commonly refers to an initiative consisting...

Act, the majority of the Lords were now life peers, whose numbers had been gradually increasing since the Life Peerages Act 1958. As of June 2023, there...

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...

appointed for life, on either a political or non-political basis. Hereditary membership was limited in 1999 to 92 excepted hereditary peers: 90 elected...

She was made a life peer as Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, of Potterton in the County of Aberdeen, in 1970. She was made a life peer as Baroness Burton...

Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale (Life Peer, 1991). Husband of Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's (Life Peer, 2006). Husband of Alicia Kennedy...

Peer-to-peer transactions (also referred to as person-to-person transactions, P2P transactions, or P2P payments) are electronic money transfers made from...

Conservative life peer. He is the son of the former Next chairman, The Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, who was also a Conservative life peer. Wolfson's great-grandfather...

fourteen years, from 1987-2001, and then became a life peer in the House of Lords. She was the first peer to pledge the oath of allegiance in the House of...

In 2003, she was elected vice-president of Attend. Jay was appointed a life peer on 29 July 1992 with the title of Baroness Jay of Paddington, of Paddington...

life peer and former special adviser. She has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2023, and was the youngest recipient of a life peerage...

New Labour brand as being contaminated. On 7 June 2004 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Gould of Brookwood, of Brookwood in the County...

and politician. A member of the Bonham-Carter family, he was created a life peer in 1986. He was the son of the Liberal activists Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter...

National Academic Awards, serving from 1983 to 1992. Pearson was created a life peer on 18 June 1990 as Baron Pearson of Rannoch, of Bridge of Gaur in the...

Kempsell, Baron Kempsell (born May 1992) is a British political adviser and life peer. Kempsell was born in May 1992. He was educated at The John Henry Newman...

10 Downing Street announced Williams's elevation to the peerage as a life peer, so that he could continue to speak in the House of Lords. Following the...