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...
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The January 1908 Irish representative peer election was held to fill a vacancy among the 28 Irish representative peers at that time elected to the British...
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This is a list of representative peers elected from the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords after the Kingdom of Ireland was brought...
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This is a list of representative peers elected from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords after the Acts of Union 1707 abolished the Parliament...
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Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by...
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Peerages in the United Kingdom (redirect from British Peer)
Scottish peers elected 16 Scottish representative peers to sit in the House of Lords. Since 1963, they have had the same rights as Peers of the United...
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House of Lords as peers of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom, thereby ending the election of Scottish representative peers and increasing the...
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Peerage of the United Kingdom (redirect from Peer of the United Kingdom)
as representative peers. Some peerages of the United Kingdom were created to get around this obstacle and allow certain Scottish and Irish peers to enjoy...
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Peerage of Ireland (redirect from Irish peer)
Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as they died) to the...
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Earl of Rothes (section Present peer)
surname of Leslie and sat in the British House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer between 1708 and 1710. His son, the tenth Earl, was a Lieutenant-General...
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A by-election for a Scottish representative peer took place on 1 October 1958 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The election was caused by...
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Peer pressure is a direct or indirect influence on peers, i.e., members of social groups with similar interests, experiences, or social statuses. Members...
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Scottish representative peer, Lord Lieutenant of Angus 1826–1849 David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie (1826–1881), his son, Scottish representative peer David...
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Earl of Mayo (section Present peer)
Irish representative peer from 1816 to 1849. On his death, the titles passed to his nephew, the fifth Earl who was also an Irish representative peer in the...
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His son, the second Earl, sat in the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer from 1816 to 1823. However, he had no children and on his death in...
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Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes (category Scottish representative peers)
(13 July 1877 – 29 March 1927) was a Scottish soldier and Scottish representative peer. Norman Leslie was the son of Martin Leslie Leslie (born Martin Leslie...
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Peerage (section Lists of peers)
1921) Representative peers, holders of Scottish and Irish peerages who represented their peer-groups in the House of Lords at Westminster Welsh peers and...
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even participated in elections for representative peers. Later, the Earl of Kellie petitioned to be recognised as a peer. He died before it could be considered;...
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This is a list of political science journals presenting representative peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of political science. Contents: Top...
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Strathdichtie. The 10th Earl sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer from 1796 to 1806, and again from 1807 to 1812. In 1815, he was created...
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Peerage of Scotland (redirect from Peer of Scotland)
elected 16 Scottish representative peers to sit in the House of Lords at Westminster. The Peerage Act 1963 granted all Scottish Peers the right to sit in...
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that provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links used for peer-to-peer file sharing through the BitTorrent protocol. According to the TorrentFreak...
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Scottish and Irish peers did not have an automatic right to sit in the House of Lords, and instead elected representative peers from amongst their number...
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He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1874 to 1906. His nephew, the twenty-first Lord, served as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1917 and 1924...
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Malcolm Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes (category Scottish representative peers)
Rothes on the death of his father in 1927. He served as a Scottish representative peer until this system was abolished. The Earl died on 7 May 1975. The...
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Earl Erne (section Present peer)
in the Peerage of Ireland, and sat from 1800 to 1828 as an Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords. The title of Baron Erne, of Crom Castle...
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Scottish representative peer, Lord Lieutenant of Angus 1826–1849 David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie (1826–1881), his son, Scottish representative peer David...
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Earl Annesley (section Present peer)
Conservative Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby and was an Irish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1857 to 1874. He never married and was...
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Dean of the United States House of Representatives Until 31 July 1963, when the Peerage Act 1963 came into effect, peers in the Peerage of Scotland did not...
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Thomas Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald (category Scottish representative peers)
in the British Army who served in World War I. He was a Scottish representative peer (from 1941 to 1955) and chairman of the Anglo-Chilean Society. Cochrane...
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