List Of Hereditary Peers Removed Under The House Of Lords Act 1999

This following is a list of hereditary peers who were excluded from the House of Lords due to the House of Lords Act 1999.

Excluded hereditary peers

The following 650 hereditary peers had their entitlement to sit in the House of Lords removed by the House of Lords Act 1999.

Hereditary peers given life peerages

The following ten peers were excluded from sitting in the House of Lords by virtue of their hereditary titles, and were not part of the 92 excepted hereditary peers. New life peerages were offered to hereditary peers of first creation and previous Leader of the House of Lords, Leaders of the House of Lords to allow continued membership after the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.Bedford 2000, p. 362.

Two other hereditary peers, Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, and George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, had been created life peers prior to their successions to their hereditary peerages and continued to sit in the House by virtue of their life peerages following the exclusion of hereditary peers.

See also

*List of hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage
*List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999

References

Notes

Citations

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Sources

* Bedford, M. (1999). Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1999. Westminster: Vacher Dod Publishing Ltd.
* Bedford, M. (2000). Dod's Parliamentary Companion 2000. Westminster: Vacher Dod Publishing Ltd.

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Lists of legislators in the United Kingdom, Hereditary peers
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