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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