Peerage of Great Britain Peerage of the United Kingdom List of elections of Scottish representative peers List of Irish representative peers Extinct on...

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...

representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords...

the Acts of Union 1707, the peerage of Scotland elected sixteen of their number, the Scottish representative peers, to sit in the House of Lords at Westminster...

An election for 16 Scottish representative peers took place on 6 October 1959 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. It turned out to be the last...

election". List of Scottish representative peers "MINUTES OF MEETING held on the 1st October, 1958, of PEERS OF SCOTLAND for the ELECTION OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES...

An election for 16 Scottish representative peers took place on Monday 23 May 1955 at the Parliament House in Edinburgh. The venue for the meeting caused...

List of spiritual peers Peerage of England Peerage of Scotland List of Scottish representative peers Welsh peers and baronets Peerage of Ireland List...

Parliament of Scotland. After the Union, the Peers of the old Parliament of Scotland elected 16 Scottish representative peers to sit in the House of Lords...

The Scottish Representative Peers Act 1707 (6 Ann. c. 78) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The whole act was repealed by sections 4 and...

parliament. See List of Scottish representative peers. Article XXII of the Treaty of Union provides: Of the Peers of Scotland at the time of the Union Sixteen...

Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by...

merged. From 1707 to 1963, the Scottish peers were represented in the House of Lords by Scottish representative peers, but from 1963 to 1999 they were...

the Scottish hereditary peers would only be able to elect 16 Scottish representative peers to sit in the House of Lords; the term of a representative was...

United Kingdom of the same rank; but Irish peers created after 1801 yield to United Kingdom peers of earlier creation. Accordingly, the Duke of Abercorn (the...

of peers of Great Britain, holders of higher or equal titles in the other peerages are listed. Those peers who are known by a higher title in one of the...

Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (renamed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after 1921) Representative peers, holders of Scottish and...

pp. 86–88. ISBN 978-0-307-45223-8. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 List of Scottish representative peers v t e v t e...

Sixteen Peers of Scotland: An Account of the Elections of the Representative Peers of Scotland, 1707–1959 by James Fergusson". The Journal of Modern History...

representative peers from amongst their number. Peerages were largely hereditary until the regular creation of life peers began in the second half of...

The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of August 2023, there are 805 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal...

after their respective Premierships Irish and Scottish Peers did not have an automatic seat in the House of Lords unlike their English and British counterparts...

48) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that permits women peeresses and all Scottish hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords and allows...

Ireland. Scottish Peers wasn't allowed to sit in the House of Lords unless they were Representative Peers or held Imperial Peerages (i.e. Peerage of Great...

year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages...

10th Earl of Northesk (1865 – 5 December 1921), a Scottish representative peer Carnegie was born on 1 December 1865. He was the eldest son of Lt.-Col....

the Scottish hereditary peers would only be able to elect 16 Scottish representative peers to sit in the House of Lords; the term of a representative was...

only some peers (see History of reform of the House of Lords). Scottish peers from the Acts of Union 1707 and Irish peers from the Act of Union 1800...

Acts of Union 1707, Scottish Lords would be entitled to elect 16 Scottish representative peers to sit on their Lordships' behalf in the House of Lords...

1970), First Minister of Scotland (since 2014) and Leader of the Scottish National Party John Swinney (born 1964), Scottish National Party (SNP) politician...