Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith was born in Glasgow in 1960 to Unionist MP Sir Tam Galbraith and his Belgian wife Baroness Simone du Roy de Blicquy. Sir Tam died in 1982 and Lord...
View ArticleEric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
After a stint in the Welsh Guards, and as a engineer for Rolls Royce, Lord Avebury entered Parliament as MP for Orpington. With a 22% victory swing, the then Eric Lubbock set about what was seen as a...
View ArticleJohn Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee
John Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee, is the grandson of heavyweight Labour Prime Minister and 1st Earl Clement Attlee but, unlike the 1st and 2nd Earls, sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative. Born in...
View ArticleEdward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
Lord Montagu is a Conservative peer who was born in 1926 and became the 3rd Baron at the age of just two in 1929, when his father was killed in an accident. He took up his seat as soon as he was old...
View ArticleJames Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose
Born in 1935, His Grace was known as Earl of Kincardine until 1954 and Marquess of Graham between 1954 and 1992. He is a Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland and a British...
View ArticleJohn Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich
Born in 1943, the eldest son of Victor Montagu, who disclaimed the earldom of Sandwich in 1964, and his first wife Maud Rosemary (née Peto). He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1995. He sits in...
View ArticleMatthew Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley
Matthew Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, is a journalist and scientist who is known primarily for his libertarianism, his views on climate change, and for being chairman of Northern Rock during the first...
View ArticleColonel John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim
Viscount Slim was born in 1927 as the only son of war hero Field Marshall William Slim, who was ennobled as the 1st Viscount in 1960 after serving as Governor-General of Australia from 1953-59. It was...
View ArticleRichard McMoran Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran
Lord Moran sits on the cross-benches and succeeded his father (better known as Churchill’s wartime personal physician) in 1977. He was born on 22 September, 1924. Educated at Eton, he served in the...
View ArticleBenjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
Lord Mancroft is a Conservative peer and succeeded to the barony in 1987, aged 30, following the death of his father. Educated at Eton, he has decades of experience in both business and voluntary...
View ArticleJohn Rea, 3rd Baron Rea
Lord Rea sits as a Labour peer having succeeded to the barony in 1981, aged 53, following the death of his uncle. Spending his childhood in both Britain and the United States, he attended Christ’s...
View ArticleMerlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll
Holding an earldom created in 1453, the year the Eastern Roman Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks, Lord Erroll also holds of the subsidiary titles of Lord Hay and Lord Slains. He is also Lord High...
View ArticleWilliam Peel, 3rd Earl Peel
Lord Peel is a crossbench peer and has been Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household since 2006, meaning he organises all Court functions. He is also a great-great grandson of former Conservative prime...
View ArticleMargaret Mar, 31st Countess of Mar
Lady Mar is a crossbench peer elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in the House as a deputy speaker in 1999. She is also the holder of the oldest peerage in the United Kingdom; the...
View ArticleArthur Connolly-Gore, 9th Earl of Arran
It’s the last Sitting Peer Sunday of 2013 and this week we have Arthur Colum Michael Connolly-Gore, 9th Earl of Arran, of the Arran Islands in the County of Galway. Born Viscount Sudley in 1938, Lord...
View ArticleDavid Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home
Lord Home is the only son of former prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who was notable for being the last PM to serve from the House of Lords, albeit only for four days before disclaiming his...
View ArticleFrederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe
Born in 1951, the son of Royal Navy commander and film director George Curzon. Lord Howe was educated at Rugby School and Christ church, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in Literae Humaniores,...
View ArticleIvon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara
Lord Brabazon was born on December 20th 1946 and like his father and grandfather before him, attended Harrow School. After leaving school, Lord Brabazon went on to spend time working in the freight...
View ArticleDavid Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke.
Born on September 14th 1938, the only son of John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke. Verney was educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at New College, Oxford where he studied modern languages....
View ArticleDavid Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley
Since the removal of hereditary peers’ automatic right to sit in the House of Lords, Lord Cholmondeley is the only remaining marquess among the 92 elected hereditary peers. Michael Kerr, 13th Marquess...
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James Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick
Geoffrey Robert James Borwick was born in 1955 and succeeded to the barony following the death of his father, the 4th Baron, in 2007. As such he has never sat in the Lords by hereditary right but was...
View ArticleJames Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar
It’s Sitting Peer Sunday and this week we have James Thorne Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar and 16th Earl of Kellie, who sits as a Liberal Democrat. Lord Mar was born on March 10, 1949, and educated at Eton,...
View ArticleJohn Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton & 18th Baron Wentworth
Lord Lytton is notable for being descended from George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron – better known simply as Lord Byron – via his daughter, the mathematician Ava Lovelace. The connection is one Lord...
View ArticleNicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
Lord Ullswater, who sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative, is one of the very few peers to have succeeded their great-grandfather to their title – the 2nd Viscount having succeeded his...
View ArticleWilliam Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
William Waldorf Astor III is a Conservative hereditary peer and great-grandson of William Waldorf Astor, the American financier and founder of New York’s Waldorf Hotel, which later became the Waldorf...
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