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The Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office in gross post among the Cholmondeley, Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Carington families.. In 1902 it was ruled by the House of Lords that the then joint office holders (the 1st Earl of Ancaster, the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire) had to agree on a deputy to exercise the office, subject ...
The following are lists of members of the House of Lords: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
Hereditary peers of first creation living at the time the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force. 2: Hereditary peers who had served as Leader of the House of Lords living at the time the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force. 3: Suo jure hereditary peeress not otherwise able to enter the House before the Peerage Act 1963. † Died in office Res
To encourage hereditary peers in the House of Lords to follow the party line, a number of lords-in-waiting (government whips) are usually hereditary peers. This practice was not adhered to by the Labour government of 1997–2010 due to the small number of Labour hereditary peers in the House of Lords.
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill will abolish the 92 seats reserved for members of the upper chamber who are there by right of birth.
Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 (some of whom have been elected to the House after being removed from it in 1999), and remaining law life peers.
The Bill, if passed, will eliminate all 92 of the hereditary peers from the House of Lords; the Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain will continue their ceremonial functions in the House of Lords, but will cease to be members. [3] The 26 Lords Spiritual and a variable number of life peers would remain in the House.
But his amendment to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, designed to prevent the Church of England bishops from being members of the Lords, was rejected by 378 votes to 41, majority 337.