Sentences with phrase «member of the peerage»

An undisputed member of the peerage of the automotive aristocracy, Aston Martin boasts a history going all the way back to 1913, when its parent company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin as Bamford & Martin Ltd..

«Sir, — I should perhaps confirm for the avoidance of doubt that, as my title implies, I am a Peer of the Realm, a member of the House of Lords or House of Peers or upper House of the UK Legislature, and a member of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, albeit without the right to sit or vote (a right which I do not pretend to possess).

which apparently serves a Governmental Function not unlike; but also apparently not like the US Senate; and a broader category of persons who are members of the Peerage in some fashion; in Lord Monckton's case, being a Hereditary Viscount.

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Technically Home, was PM while not a member of parliament between the time he resigned his peerage and when he was elected as an MP.

Disqualification of peers convicted of a serious criminal offence or who are subject to a bankruptcy restriction order Provide power for House of Lords to expel or suspend a member Allow peers to resign and disclaim their peerage Repeal legislation that limits protest around parliament Remove prime minister from process of appointments to President, Deputy President and judges of the Supreme Court Inclusion of spending of non-departmental public bodies in Estimates and Accounts of responsible govt department

He resumed the post in 1929 (once again as a member of the cabinet) when Labour returned to office under MacDonald, [7] and held it until 1930, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Noel - Buxton, of Aylsham in the County of Norfolk.

That year he accepted a life peerage and was an active member of the House of Lords until shortly before his death, aged 101, in 1986.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

Sayeeda Warsi Having fought Dewsbury in 2005, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2007 as shadow minister for community cohesion and given a peerage, making her the youngest member of the House of Lords.

It is unclear whether Gordon Brown, who remained a member of the House of Commons until 2015, would accept a peerage.

Jeremy Corbyn wants to hand the nominations for Labour awards and peerages to local party members in a shake - up of the honours system, according to a report.

The House of Lords Act 1999 ended the automatic link between the holding of a hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords, and the 2nd Lord Monckton ceased to be a member of the House at that point.