Peerage Act 1963#List of disclaimed peerages
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{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title = Peerage Act 1963
| type = Act
| parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title = An Act to authorise the disclaimer for life of certain hereditary peerages; to include among the peers qualified to sit in the House of Lords all peers in the peerage of Scotland and peeresses in their own right in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom; to remove certain disqualifications of peers in the peerage of Ireland in relation to the House of Commons and elections thereto; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
| year = 1963
| citation = 1963 c. 48
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| territorial_extent = United Kingdom
| royal_assent = 31 July 1963
| commencement = 31 July 1963
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| amends = {{ubli|Union with Scotland Act 1706|Union with England Act 1707|Election Act 1707|Union with Ireland Act 1800|Representation of the People Act 1918|Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928}}
| replaces = {{ubli|Scottish Representative Peers Act 1707|Representative Peers (Scotland) Act 1847|Representative Peers (Scotland) Act 1851}}
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The Peerage Act 1963 (c. 48) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permits female hereditary peers and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords and allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed.
A disclaimed peerage remains without a holder until the death of the disclaimer, and his heir succeeds to the peerage.
Background
The Act resulted largely from the protests of Labour politician Tony Benn, then the 2nd Viscount Stansgate.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/82121.stm|title=Disclaiming a peerage|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|location=London |date=14 July 2005 |access-date=7 June 2008}} Under British law at the time, peers of England, peers of Great Britain and peers of the United Kingdom who met certain qualifications, such as age (21), were automatically members of the House of Lords and could not sit in or vote in elections for the other chamber, the House of Commons.
At the time of the Act, thirty one peers in the Peerage of Scotland also had held titles in the respective peerages of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom and were thus members of the House of Lords.
When William Wedgwood Benn, Tony Benn's father, agreed to accept the viscountcy, he ascertained that the heir-apparent, his eldest son Michael, did not plan to enter the House of Commons. However, within a few years of the peerage being accepted, Michael Benn was killed in action in the Second World War. Tony Benn, his younger brother, became heir apparent to the peerage and was elected to the House of Commons in 1950. Not wishing to leave it for the other House, he campaigned through the 1950s for a change in the law. In 1960, the 1st Viscount died and Tony Benn inherited the title, automatically losing his seat in the House of Commons as a member for the constituency of Bristol South East. In the ensuing by-election, however, Benn was re-elected to the Commons, despite being disqualified. An election court ruled that he could not take his seat, instead awarding it to the runner-up, the Conservative Malcolm St Clair.{{cite journal |title=How to lose a title |last=Zander |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Zander |journal=New Law Journal |date=11 April 2014 |issue=7602 |url=http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/nlj/content/how-lose-title |access-date=12 June 2015}}
In 1963, the Conservative Government agreed to introduce a Peerage Bill, allowing individuals to disclaim peerages; it received royal assent on 31 July 1963.{{London Gazette |issue=43072 |date=2 August 1963 |pages=6533–6534 }} Tony Benn was the first peer to make use of the Act. St Clair, fulfilling a promise he had made at the time of taking his seat, accepted the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead the previous day, thereby disqualifying himself from the House (outright resignation is prohibited), and Benn was then re-elected in Bristol South East at the ensuing by-election.
Disclaiming peerages
To disclaim a hereditary peerage, the peer must deliver an instrument of disclaimer to the Lord Chancellor within one year of succeeding to the peerage, or within one year after the passage of the Act, or, if under the age of 21 at the time of succession, before the peer's 22nd birthday. If, at the time of succession, the peer is a member of the House of Commons, then the instrument must be delivered within one month of succession, and until such an instrument is delivered, the peer may neither sit nor vote in the lower House. Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, a hereditary peer could not disclaim a peerage after having applied for a writ of summons to Parliament; now, however, hereditary peers do not have the automatic right to a writ of summons to the House. A peer who disclaims the peerage loses all titles, rights and privileges associated with the peerage; if they are married, so does their spouse. No further hereditary peerage may be conferred upon the person, but a life peerage may be. The peerage remains without a holder until the death of the peer who had made the disclaimer, whereupon it descends to his or her heir in the usual manner.
The one-year window after the passage of the Act soon proved to be of importance at the highest levels of British politics, after the resignation of Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister in October 1963. Two hereditary peers wished to be considered to replace him, but by this time it was considered requisite that a prime minister sit in the Commons. Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham and Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home took advantage of the Act to disclaim their peerages, despite having inherited them in 1950 and 1951 respectively. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as Lord Home now became, was chosen as prime minister; both men later returned to the House of Lords as life peers.
Since the abolition in 1999 of the general right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, and the consequent removal of the general disability of such peers to sit in or vote for the House of Commons, it is no longer necessary for hereditary peers to disclaim their peerages for this purpose. In 2001, John Thurso, 3rd Viscount Thurso became the first British hereditary peer to be elected to the Commons and take his seat. Later that year, Douglas Hogg inherited the Hailsham peerage his father (Quintin Hogg) had disclaimed, but did not have to disclaim it himself to continue sitting in the House of Commons. In 2004, Michael Ancram inherited the marquessate of Lothian on the death of his father, and was also able to continue sitting as an MP. On their retirements from the House of Commons, Lord Lothian and Lord Hailsham entered the House of Lords as life peers, while Lord Thurso was elected as an excepted hereditary peer after losing reelection as an MP. Since the chief purpose for the Act ended in 1999, there has only been one further disclaimer: Christopher Silkin, 3rd Baron Silkin, disclaimed his title in 2002. As of 2024, the barony of Silkin is the only title currently disclaimed under the terms of the Peerage Act 1963.
The Peerage Act 1963 only applies to titles held in the Peerage of England, the Peerage of Scotland, the Peerage of Great Britain, and the Peerage of the United Kingdom. No provision was made by the Act for titles in the Peerage of Ireland to be disclaimed, as the entitlement of new Irish representative peers to be elected to sit in the House of Lords was considered to have lapsed after most of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State in December 1922 (and the last surviving Irish representative peer had died in 1961).
List of disclaimed peerages
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| Indicates peerage which is currently disclaimed |
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! colspan=2 scope="col" | Title(s) ! scope="col" | Disclaimed by; life ! scope="col" | Time disclaimed ! scope="col" | Notes ! scope="col" | Ref. |
| Viscount Stansgate
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom|The title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.}} | Tony Benn | 1963 to 2014 | Extant; inherited in 2014 | {{London Gazette |issue=43072 |date=2 August 1963 |page=6534 }} |
| Baron Altrincham
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | John Grigg | 1963 to 2001 | Extant; inherited in 2001 | {{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/hllreform.pdf |title=Proposals for reform of the composition and powers of the House of Lords, 1968–1998 |access-date=16 June 2008 |date=14 July 1998 |work=Library Note (LLN 98/004) |publisher=House of Lords Library |page=81 |quote=Mr. Grigg, who had disclaimed his hereditary peerage as Lord Altrincham in 1963 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120192741/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/HLLReform.pdf |archive-date=20 November 2006 |df=dmy-all }} |
| Earl of Home
|{{efn|name=Scotland|The title in the Peerage of Scotland.}} | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | 1963 to 1995 | Extant; inherited in 1995 | {{London Gazette |issue=43143 |date=25 October 1963 |page=8770 }} |
| Viscount Hailsham
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Quintin Hogg | 1963 to 2001 | Extant; inherited in 2001 | {{London Gazette |issue=43164 |date=22 November 1963 |page=9515 }} |
| Baron Southampton
|{{efn|name=Great Britain|The title in the Peerage of Great Britain.}} | Charles FitzRoy (1904–1989)|Charles FitzRoy | 1964 to 1989 | Extant; inherited in 1989 | {{London Gazette |issue=43273 |date=17 March 1964 |page=2387 }} |
| Baron Monkswell
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | William Collier | 1964 to 1984 | Extant; inherited in 1984 | {{London Gazette |issue=43293 |date=10 April 1964 |page=3085 }} |
| Baron Beaverbrook
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet | 1964 to 1985 | Extant; inherited in 1985 | {{London Gazette |issue=43353 |date=12 June 1964 |page=5065 }} |
| Earl of Sandwich
|{{efn|name=England|The title in the Peerage of England.}} | Victor Montagu | 1964 to 1995 | Extant; inherited in 1995 | {{London Gazette |issue=43394 |date=28 July 1964 |page=6412 }} |
| Baron Fraser of Allander
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Sir Hugh Fraser, Bt. | 1966 to 1987 | Extinct 1987 | {{London Gazette |issue=44197 |date=13 December 1966 |page=13471 }} |
| Earl of Durham
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Antony Lambton | 1970 to 2006 | Extant; inherited in 2006 | {{London Gazette |issue=45048 |date=24 February 1970 |page=2263 }} |
| Baron Sanderson of Ayot
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Alan Lindsay Sanderson | 1971 to 2022 | Extant; inherited in 2022 | {{London Gazette |issue=45484 |date=30 September 1971 |page=10509 }} |
| Baron Reith
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Christopher Reith | 1972 to 2016 | Extant; inherited in 2016 | {{London Gazette |issue=45657 |date=27 April 1972 |page=4999 }} |
| Baron Silkin
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Arthur Silkin | 1972 to 2001 | Inherited in 2001 | {{London Gazette |issue=45675 |date=22 May 1972 |page=6131 }} |
| Baron Archibald
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | George Christopher Archibald | 1975 to 1996 | Extinct 1996 | {{London Gazette |issue=46514 |date=11 March 1975 |page=3312 }} |
| Baron Merthyr
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Trevor Lewis | 1977 to 2015 | Extant; inherited in 2015 | {{London Gazette |issue=47209 |date=29 April 1977 |page=5835 }} |
| Earl of Selkirk
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton | 1994 to 2023 | Extant; inherited in 2023 |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1994-11-28/Debate-1.html |title=Hansard, Vol 250 Col 931 |date=28 November 1994 |access-date=16 June 2008 |quote=The House has been officially notified today that the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West has disclaimed the title under the provisions of the Peerage Act 1963.}} |
| Viscount Camrose
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Michael Berry | 1995 to 2001 | Extant; inherited in 2001 | {{cite news |first=Duff |last=Hart-Davis |title=Lord Hartwell (obituary) |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-hartwell-728988.html |work=Independent.co.uk |publisher=Independent News and Media |location=London |date=4 April 2001 |access-date=16 June 2008}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} |
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| {{double-dagger}} Baron Silkin |{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | Christopher Silkin | Since 2002 | |
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Other provisions
The Act granted peers of Scotland the same right to sit in the House of Lords as peers of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom, thereby ending the election of Scottish representative peers and increasing the number of peers of Scotland in the Lords (who did not already sit as holder of another British peerage) from 16 to about 46.{{cite news |title=Election By Scots Peers |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=7 October 1959 |page=14 |url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=wes_ttda&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&docId=CS235887943&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 |url-access=subscription }}
There were 115 peers of Scotland at the time of the last representatives' election in 1959, but most of these already sat in the Lords as they held another title in the Peerage of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom.
An amendment that would have allowed Irish peers to sit in the House as well was defeated by ninety votes to eight.
The Act removed the disqualification of peers of Ireland, by virtue of an Irish peerage, to vote in elections for members of the House of Commons; and to sit in the British House of Commons without losing the privilege of peerage.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/48/enacted/data.htm|title=Peerage Act 1963|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-10-31}}
The Act also granted suo jure hereditary women peers (other than those in the Peerage of Ireland) the right to sit in the House of Lords, which introduced twelve new women to the House. This was not the first time that women were members of the House of Lords; the Life Peerages Act 1958 allowed all life peers (men and women) to sit in the House. Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale had already entered the Lords in 1958 through the receipt of a life peerage. The women who took their seats in the House after the Peerage Act 1963 and before the House of Lords Act 1999 were:
=Scottish hereditary peers=
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| Peer | colspan=2|Highest qualifying title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
| Duke of Brandon | {{efn|name=Great Britain|The title in the Peerage of Great Britain.}}
| The incumbent Lord Steward. | |
| Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch and 10th Duke of Queensbury
| Earl of Doncaster | {{efn|name=England|The title in the Peerage of England.}}
| The incumbent Lord Clerk Register. | |
| Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll
| Duke of Argyll | {{efn|name=United Kingdom|The title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Sundridge{{efn|name=Great Britain}} and Baron Hamilton of Hameldon .{{efn|name=Great Britain}}}}
| | |
| Angus Graham, 7th Duke of Montrose
| Earl Graham of Belford | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}
| The incumbent Cabinet Minister in Southern Rhodesia. | |
| George Innes-Ker, 9th Duke of Roxburghe
| Earl Innes | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Douglas Gordon, 12th Marquess of Huntly
| Baron Meldrum | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale
| Baron Tweeddale | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| The incumbent Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian | |
| Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian
| Baron Ker of Kersehugh | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| The incumbent Lord-in-waiting | |
| David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres
| Baron Wigan | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Donald Erskine, 16th Earl of Buchan | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Archibald Montgomerie, 17th Earl of Eglinton | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | |
| Archibald Stuart, 19th Earl of Moray
| Baron Stuart | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Ardrossan .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}}
| | |
| Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| The incumbent Foreign Secretary | |
| Timothy Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
| Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Bowes .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}}
| | |
| Randolph Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway
| Baron Stewart of Garlies | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}
| The incumbent Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright | |
| William Hay, 15th Earl of Kinnoull
| Baron Hay of Pedwardine | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}
| | |
| Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine
| Baron Elgin | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| The incumbent Lord Lieutenant of Fife | |
| Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk
| Baron Balinhard | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and 8th Earl of March
| Baron Wemyss | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie
| Baron Ramsay | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee
| Baron Glassary | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Arthur Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl of Kintore{{efn|The Barony of Kintore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 26 May 1966}}
| Baron Kintore | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| John Murray, 9th Earl of Dunmore{{efn|The Barony of Dunmore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 12 August 1980}}
| Baron Dunmore | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair
| Baron Oxenfoord | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| The incumbent Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown | |
| Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
| Earl of Midlothian | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Rosebery .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}}
| The incumbent Lord Lieutenant of Midlothian | |
| Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow
| Baron Fairlie | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
| Baron Lovat | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone
| Baron Elphinstone | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier
| Baron Ettrick | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Eric Rollo, 13th Lord Rollo
| Baron Dunning | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| | |
| Kenneth Kinnaird, 12th Lord Kinnaird{{efn|The Lordship of Kinnaird in the Peerage of Scotland and Barony of Kinnaird in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 27 February 1997}}
| Baron Kinnaird | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}
| |
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==Scottish representative peers who became automatic members==
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| Peer | Elected as representative peer | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl
| 1 October 1958 | | ||
| Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness
| 21 February 1950 | | ||
| John Erskine, 13th Earl of Mar and 16th Earl of Kellie
| 6 October 1959 | | ||
| David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth
| 2 April 1952 | | ||
| George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington
| 16 November 1922 | | ||
| David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
| 13 January 1922 | | ||
| George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
| 6 July 1945 | | ||
| David Carnegie, 11th Earl of Northesk
| 6 October 1959 | | ||
| Ian Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald
| 6 October 1959 | | ||
| Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes
| 23 May 1955 | | ||
| Alexander Fraser, 20th Lord Saltoun
| 15 November 1935 | | ||
| Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair
| 6 October 1959 | | ||
| William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill
| 15 November 1935 | | ||
| George Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
| 16 November 1922 | | ||
| Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
| 6 July 1945 | | ||
| Henry Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth
| 6 July 1945 | |
==Became eligible to sit==
| class="wikitable" | |
| Peer | Notes |
|---|---|
| David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry
| | |
| Lionel Erskine-Young, 29th Earl of Mar
| | |
| Sholto Douglas, 20th Earl of Morton
| | |
| Malcolm Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes
| Former representative peer | |
| Alfred Maitland, 16th Earl of Lauderdale
| | |
| William Lindesay-Bethune, 14th Earl of Lindsay
| Former representative peer | |
| Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven and 13th Earl of Melville
| | |
| John Campbell, 10th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
| | |
| Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney
| | |
| Lucius Cary, 14th Viscount Falkland
| | |
| Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
| | |
| Angus Campbell-Gray, 22nd Lord Gray
| | |
| John Sandilands, 13th Lord Torphichen
| | |
| Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay
| | |
| James Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank
| | |
| Robert Hamilton, 13th Lord Belhaven and Stenton
| |
The holder of the Earldom of Newburgh wasn't eligible as she was an Italian citizen.
=Irish hereditary peers=
==Irish peers with qualifying titles==
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| Peer | colspan=2|Highest qualifying title |
|---|---|
| Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster
| Viscount Leinster | {{efn|name=Great Britain|The title in the Peerage of Great Britain.}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Kildare{{efn|name=United Kingdom|The title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.}}}} |
| James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn
| Marquess of Abercorn | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Viscount Hamilton .{{efn|name=Great Britain}}}} |
| John Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford
| Baron Tyrone | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Arthur Hill, 7th Marquess of Downshire
| Earl of Hillsborough | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Harwich .{{efn|name=Great Britain}}}} |
| Edward Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegall
| Baron Fisherwick | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort
| Baron Kenlis | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Denis Browne, 10th Marquess of Sligo
| Baron Monteagle | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| George Loftus, 7th Marquess of Ely
| Baron Loftus | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Frederick Conyngham, 6th Marquess Conyngham
| Baron Minster | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry
| Earl Vane | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Stewart .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde{{efn|The Marquessate of Ormonde in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Ormonde was extinct on 25 October 1997}}
| Baron Ormonde | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and 12th Earl of Orrery
| Baron Boyle of Marston | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Anthony Brabazon, 14th Earl of Meath
| Baron Chaworth | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Oliver Plunket, 12th Earl of Fingall{{efn|The Earldom of Fingall in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Fingall in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 5 March 1984}}
| Baron Fingall | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda
| Baron Moore | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard
| Baron Granard | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam{{efn|The Earldom of Fitzwilliam in the Peerage of Ireland, the Earldom of Fitzwilliam and the Barony of Fitzwilliam in the Peerage of Great Britain was extinct on 21 September 1979}}
| Earl Fitzwilliam | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Fitzwilliam .{{efn|name=Great Britain}}}} |
| Peter Bligh, 10th Earl of Darnley | {{efn|name=England|The title in the Peerage of England.}} |
| Frederick Perceval, 11th Earl of Egmont{{efn|The Earldom of Egmont in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Lovel and Holland in the Peerage of Great Britain was extinct on 6 November 2011}}
| Baron Lovel and Holland | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Frederick Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough{{efn|The Earldom of Bessborough in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 5 December 1993}}
| Earl of Bessborough | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby{{efn|name=Great Britain}} and Baron Duncannon .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| Brian Butler, 9th Earl of Carrick
| Baron Butler of Mount Juliet | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Robert Boyle, 8th Earl of Shannon
| Baron Carleton | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran
| Baron Sudley | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| James Stopford, 8th Earl of Courtown
| Baron Saltersford | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton{{efn|The Earldom of Sefton in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Sefton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 13 April 1972}}
| Baron Sefton | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| John Meade, 6th Earl of Clanwilliam
| Baron Clanwilliam | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
| Baron Silchester | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Pakenham .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| David Cole, 6th Earl of Enniskillen
| Baron Grinstead | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Henry Crichton, 6th Earl Erne
| Baron Fermanagh | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan
| Baron Bingham | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| John Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore
| Viscount Hutchinson | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick
| Baron Foxford | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Richard Trench, 6th Earl of Clancarty
| Viscount Clancarty | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Trench .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford
| Baron Worlingham | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Acheson .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| Edward Ellis Agar, 5th Earl of Normanton
| Baron Somerton | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
| Baron Hare | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly
| Baron Ranfurly | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston
| Baron Gormanston | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Piers Butler, 16th Viscount Mountgarret
| Baron Mountgarret | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene and 6th Viscount Ferrard
| Baron Oriel | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Richard Dawnay, 10th Viscount Downe
| Baron Dawnay | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne
| Baron Brancepeth | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Patrick Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington{{efn|The Viscountcy of Barrington in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Shute in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 6 April 1990}}
| Baron Shute | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage
| Baron Gage | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| Simon Monckton-Arundell, 9th Viscount Galway{{efn|The Barony of Monckton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 1 January 1971}}
| Baron Monckton | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt
| Baron Powerscourt | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden{{efn|The Viscountcy of Clifden in the Peerage of Ireland and the Barony of Robartes in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 22 December 1974}}
| Baron Mendip | {{efn|name=Great Britain}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Robartes .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| Henry Monck, 6th Viscount Monck
| Baron Monck | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby
| Baron Digby | {{efn|name=Great Britain}} |
| William Edwardes, 7th Baron Kensington
| Baron Kensington | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Sheffield | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}}{{efn|Junior qualifying title, Baron Eddisbury .{{efn|name=United Kingdom}}}} |
| William Westenra, 7th Baron Rossmore
| Baron Rossmore | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Michael Eden, 7th Baron Henley
| Baron Northington | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| John Henniker-Major, 7th Baron Henniker
| Baron Hartismere | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Milo Talbot, 7th Baron Talbot of Malahide{{efn|The Barony of Talbot de Malahide in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was extinct on 14 April 1973}}
| Baron Talbot de Malahide | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew
| Baron Carew | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
| Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne
| Baron Mereworth | {{efn|name=United Kingdom}} |
- Ian Eden, 9th Baron Auckland and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington are not counted on the list as they were both the 9th and 6th Barons of their respective Peerages in both the Peerage of Great Britain and Peerage of Ireland and their place in the order of precedence was Barons of the Peerage of Great Britain.
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==Irish peers with full voting rights==
| class="wikitable"
|+Key |
| style="background: #ececec; text-align:center" | {{double-dagger}}
| Indicates peerage whose holder is currently alive |
=Female hereditary peers=
| class="wikitable"
|+Key |
| style="background: #ececec; text-align:center" | {{double-dagger}}
| Indicates peerage whose holder is currently alive |
==Who took their seat==
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| colspan=2|Title
! Name ! data-sort-type="date" | Title by marriage ! data-sort-type="date" | Date inherited peerage ! data-sort-type="date" | Date took seat ! data-sort-type="date" | Date left House of Lords ! class="unsortable" | Ref. |
|---|
| data-sort-value="Strange" | Baroness Strange of Knokin
|{{efn|name=England|The title in the Peerage of England.}} | 23 February 1921 Abeyance Terminated | 19 November 1963 | 12 December 1974 |
| data-sort-value="Audley" | Baroness Audley
|{{efn|name=England}} | Rosina MacNamee | | 3 July 1963 | 20 November 1963 | 24 October 1973 |
| data-sort-value="Beaumont" | Baroness Beaumont
|{{efn|name=England}} | 4 December 1963 | 31 August 1971 |
| data-sort-value="Kinloss" | Lady Kinloss
|{{efn|name=Scotland|The title in the Peerage of Scotland.}} | | 17 October 1944 | 18 February 1964 |
| data-sort-value="Erroll" | Countess of Erroll
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 24 January 1941 | 29 July 1964 | 16 May 1978 |
| data-sort-value="Nairne" | Lady Nairne
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | Katherine Bigham | 3 June 1927 | 27 October 1964 | 20 October 1995 |
| data-sort-value="Sempill" | Lady Sempill
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 30 December 1965 | 19 July 1966 | 6 July 1995 |
| data-sort-value="Berkeley" | Baroness Berkeley
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 10 May 1967 | 17 October 1992 |
| data-sort-value="Loudoun" | Countess of Loudoun
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 24 February 1960 | 22 June 1967 |
| data-sort-value="Ruthven of Freeland" | Lady Ruthven of Freeland
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley | 6 April 1956 | 26 October 1967 | 17 April 1982 |
| data-sort-value="Sutherland" | Countess of Sutherland
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 1 January 1963 | 27 March 1968 |
| data-sort-value="Darcy de Knayth" | Baroness Darcy de Knayth
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 23 March 1943 | 15 July 1969 | 24 February 2008 |
| data-sort-value="Dacre" | Baroness Dacre
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 28 May 1970 |
| data-sort-value="Portal of Hungerford" | Baroness Portal of Hungerford
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom}} | | 22 April 1971 | 26 April 1972 | 29 September 1990 |
| data-sort-value="Dudley" | Baroness Dudley
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 19 April 1972 | 23 May 1973 |
| data-sort-value="Lucas" | Baroness Lucas
|{{efn|name=England}} | Anne Palmer | | 3 November 1958 | 10 June 1975 | 31 December 1991 |
| style="background: #ececec;" id="Countess of Mar"
| data-sort-value="Mar" | {{double-dagger}} Countess of Mar |{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 21 April 1975 | 28 October 1975 | 1 May 2020 |
| data-sort-value="Saltoun of Abernethy" | Lady Saltoun
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 31 August 1979 | 13 December 1979 | 12 December 2014 |
| style="background: #ececec;"
| data-sort-value="Braye" | {{double-dagger}} Baroness Braye |{{efn|name=England}} | Mary Aubrey-Fletcher | | 19 December 1985 | 9 April 1986 |
| data-sort-value="Strange" | Baroness Strange
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 17 December 1986 | 11 March 2005 |
| data-sort-value="Mountbatten of Burma" | Countess Mountbatten of Burma
|{{efn|name=United Kingdom|The title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.}} | 27 August 1979 | 8 July 1987 | |
| data-sort-value="Wharton" | Baroness Wharton
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 25 June 1990 | 15 May 2000 |
| style="background: #ececec;"
| data-sort-value="Willoughby de Eresby" | {{double-dagger}} Baroness Willoughby de Eresby |{{efn|name=England}} | Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | | 29 March 1983 | 25 January 1994 |
| data-sort-value="Berners" | Baroness Berners
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 25 October 1995 |
| style="background: #ececec;"
| data-sort-value="Arlington" | {{double-dagger}} Baroness Arlington |{{efn|name=England}} | | 27 May 1999 |
==Who did not take their seat==
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| colspan=2|Title
! Name ! data-sort-type="date" | Title by marriage ! data-sort-type="date" | Date inherited peerage |
|---|
| data-sort-value="Furnivall" | Baroness Furnivall
|{{efn|name=England}} | Mary Dent | |
| data-sort-value="Seafield" | Countess of Seafield
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | Nina Caroline Studley-Herbert | | 12 November 1915 |
| data-sort-value="Zouche" | Baroness Zouche
|{{efn|name=England}} | Mary Frankland | | 7 April 1917 |
| data-sort-value="Dysart" | Countess of Dysart
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 22 November 1935 |
| data-sort-value="Berners" | Baroness Berners
|{{efn|name=England}} | Vera Williams | | 19 April 1950 |
| data-sort-value="de Ros" | Baroness de Ros
|{{efn|name=England}} | |
| data-sort-value="Kintore" | Countess of Kintore
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | Ethel Keith-Falconer | 26 May 1966 |
| data-sort-value="Wharton" | Baroness Wharton
|{{efn|name=England}} | | 22 July 1969 |
| data-sort-value="Harries of Terregles" | Lady Herries of Terregles
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | Baroness Cowdrey of Tonbridge | 31 January 1975 |
| data-sort-value="Dysart" | Countess of Dysart
|{{efn|name=Scotland}} | | 2 June 1975 |
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See also
References
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External links
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- [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=420754 Cox, Noel. "The Legal Standing of the Peerage and Baronetage." New Zealand Universities Law Review.]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110113170544/http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken/peer63.htm Peerage Act 1963.]
- [http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/UKhtmls/formerlords.htm Women Hereditary Peers]
- [https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/houseoflords/house-of-lords-reform/from-the-collections/from-the-parliamentary-collections-lords-reform/lords-reform-1963-1999/peerage-act-1963/ Image of the Act on the Parliamentary website]
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