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Post by kingapolloxxxii on Feb 23, 2010 4:49:29 GMT
Do you believe that the British Monarch will ever appoint any more hereditary peers outside the Royal family? was the reason the last non royal hereditary peer made(I believe in 1984) in order to make the House of Lords more democratic by only making life peers? if so its a mute point since almost all have been kicked out of The Lords with the reform of 1999
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Post by Cinderella on Feb 23, 2010 19:10:16 GMT
King Apollo, welcome to the board.
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Post by kingapolloxxxii on Feb 25, 2010 7:13:27 GMT
thank you ! I have been a visitor for years and decided to take the plunge!
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Post by paulchen on Feb 26, 2010 8:32:11 GMT
The answer, I'm afraid, would simply be no. It hasn't been the practice, as you mention King Apollo, for many years.
Increasing "democratisation" means that the House of Lords as the UK's Upper Chamber of Parliament is seen as old-fashioned. And without getting too political, hereditary peerages certainly won't happen in today's climate, and certainly not under a Labour Government, unless that link between the House of Lords and legislative government is completely severed.
Although, knowing me, I may be proved wrong...
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Post by dukeofearl on Feb 28, 2010 17:57:57 GMT
even under a tory government i dont see it happening..in this day and age the justification would have to be huge (think montgomery or churchill--who turned down a dukedom)
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Post by hovite on Mar 15, 2010 22:32:01 GMT
Although in theory peerages are the gift of the monarch, in reality they are controlled by the prime minister. Some prime ministers are more liberal than others: Salisbury (in office for 5009 days): created 87 new hereditary peerages. Rosebery (477): 7. Balfour (1242): 17. Campbell-Bannerman (854): 20. Asquith (3166): 76. Lloyd George (2146): 90. Bonar Law (211): 7. Baldwin (2640): 67. MacDonald (2480): 72. Chamberlain (1078): 21. Churchill (3161): 89. Attlee (2283): 84. Eden (645): 18. Macmillan (2473): 46. Douglas-Home (363): 12. Wilson (2835): 6. Heath (1354): 0. Callaghan (1124): 0. Thatcher (4226): 4. Major (2347): 0. Blair (3708): 1. Brown (1045): 0. website.lineone.net/~david.beamish/admintable.htm |
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Post by Aidan Work on Mar 24, 2010 1:35:14 GMT
The very last hereditary peers were Harold Macmillan,1st. Earl of Stockton,& William Whitelaw,1st. Viscount Whitelaw.
The Earldom of Stockton still exists,but the title of Viscount Whitelaw became extinct in 1999,as Viscount Whitelaw only had daughters,who were ineligible to inherit,as the letters patent creating the peerage specified that it could only pass through the male line.
Aidan.
Edited by Cinderella: No politics, please.
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