A crossbencher is a minor party or independent member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take...

Wellington were elected by Conservative hereditary peers but now sit as Crossbenchers. Number includes Lord Carrington, who would otherwise be an ex officio...

Best, of Godmanstone in the County of Dorset. He sits as an independent crossbencher in the House of Lords. Best was appointed an Officer of the Order of...

retired British civil servant, now sitting in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Butler was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, on 3 January 1938. He...

November 2014 Life peerage Personal details Born Andrew Fleming Green (1941-08-06) 6 August 1941 (age 83) Nationality British Political party Crossbencher...

September 1935), is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a crossbencher. Appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the...

Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration on 1 October 2009. He sat as a crossbencher. On 10 July 2024, it was announced that Saville had retired from the...

Baron Pannick, KC (born 7 March 1956) is a British barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords and Blackstone Chambers. He practises primarily...

Merseyside. He took his seat in the House of Lords in March 2000 as a crossbencher. Birt is an active cross-bencher in the House of Lords, speaking out...

County of Devon, on 13 June 2006. She sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. She made her maiden speech on 21 November 2006 during the Debate on...

additional Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords, where he sat as a crossbencher. Mackay was born in Aberdeen in 1946, to Donald George Mackintosh Mackay...

he regularly attended. He did not join a political party but sat as a crossbencher. On 11 November 1999, he was among the majority of the hereditary members...

Name Party Date of announcement Type [to be determined] Crossbencher 20 November 2025 Hereditary peer [to be determined] Conservative 9 January 2026 Hereditary...

whilst another, larger, grouping is given the official designation of crossbenchers. Additionally the Lords Spiritual (bishops of the Church of England)...

the Liberal Democrat whip, but resigned from the party and became a crossbencher in 2011 upon becoming the full-time senior rabbi of the West London Synagogue...

Independents (13)‡ Speaker (1) House of Lords (806) Conservative (273) Crossbenchers (185) Labour (187) Liberal Democrats (78) DUP (6) UUP (3) Green (E&W)...

Independents (13)‡ Speaker (1) House of Lords (806) Conservative (273) Crossbenchers (185) Labour (187) Liberal Democrats (78) DUP (6) UUP (3) Green (E&W)...

27th Baron de Clifford, and was elected to the House of Lords in a Crossbencher by-election in September 2023, taking the room of Raymond, Lord Hylton...

June 2024, and was introduced to the House of Lords on 29 July as a crossbencher. van der Bles, Anne Marthe; van der Linden, Sander; Freeman, Alexandra...

Borough of Merton Crossbencher 13 October 2011 Donald Curry † Baron Curry of Kirkharle of Kirkharle in the County of Northumberland Crossbencher 10 January 2012...

Independents (13)‡ Speaker (1) House of Lords (806) Conservative (273) Crossbenchers (185) Labour (187) Liberal Democrats (78) DUP (6) UUP (3) Green (E&W)...

is a retired British senior diplomat and a life peer. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2016. Ricketts served as chair of the Joint...

2022(2022-03-22) (aged 90) Idlicote, Warwickshire, England Political party Crossbencher Spouse The Lord Howe of Aberavon ​ ​ (m. 1953; died 2015)​ Children 3...

British hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords, sitting as a crossbencher. He was educated at Eton College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Prior...

hereditary peers were elected by hereditary peers of three parties and crossbenchers in elections held from 3 to 4 November 1999. 42 excepted hereditary...

as a crossbencher. He was introduced to the Lords on 15 May 2007, supported by Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve (a fellow academic and crossbencher) and Lord...

Appeal of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2012. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Woolf was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, on 2 May 1933, to Alexander Susman...

Independents (13)‡ Speaker (1) House of Lords (806) Conservative (273) Crossbenchers (185) Labour (187) Liberal Democrats (78) DUP (6) UUP (3) Green (E&W)...

Lords as Baron Williams of Oystermouth on 15 January 2013, sitting as a crossbencher. Oystermouth is a district of Swansea. He retired from the House on 31...

that he would be made a life peer and enter the House of Lords as a crossbencher and on 26 March 2013 he was created Baron Berkeley of Knighton, of Knighton...