List of Northern Ireland members of the House of Lords

This is a list of Members of the United Kingdom House of Lords who were born, live or lived in Northern Ireland.

This list does not include hereditary peers who have lost their seat in the Lords following the House of Lords Act 1999, or those in the Peerage of Ireland, who have never had an automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords at Westminster.^[1]

Note: There is no such thing as the Peerage of Northern Ireland and peers do not represent geographic areas as such.^[2] Some do, however, choose titles which reflect geographical localities, e.g. Lord Kilclooney, this is, however, entirely nominal.

Current members

Name		Notes
The Lord Alderdice	Liberal Democrat	former leader of the Alliance Party
The Lord Bew	Crossbencher	Academic and Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
The Viscount Brookeborough	Crossbencher	Elected hereditary peer, Lord-in-waiting to The Queen, grandson of a Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of an Ulster Unionist Stormont MP.
The Lord Browne of Belmont	DUP	former MLA and former Lord Mayor of Belfast
The Lord Carswell	Crossbencher	former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
The Lord Eames	Crossbencher	former Anglican Archbishop of Armagh
The Lord Empey	UUP	former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
The Lord Hay of Ballyore	DUP	former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
The Lord Hutton	Crossbencher	former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
The Lord Kilclooney	UUP	former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and former Stormont MP
The Lord Maginnis of Drumglass	Independent Unionist	former Ulster Unionist Westminster MP
The Lord Mawhinney	Conservative	former Secretary of State for Transport and former Chairman of the Conservative Party
The Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown	DUP	former Westminster MP
The Lord Morrow	DUP	former MLA
The Baroness O'Loan	Crossbencher	former Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
The Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve	Crossbencher	Academic and President of the British Academy
The Lord Rana	Crossbencher	Indian-born Belfast businessman
The Lord Rogan	UUP	former chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party
The Lord Smith of Clifton	Liberal Democrat	Liberal Democrat spokesman on Northern Ireland
The Lord Trimble	Conservative	former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party

Currently disqualified members

The Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,^[3] former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

Living former members

The Baroness Blood Trade unionist and women's campaigner^[4]
The Lord Glentoran, elected hereditary peer, son and grandson of Ulster Unionist Stormont MPs^[5]
The Baroness Paisley of St. George's, Vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, widow of Lord Bannside^[6]

Deceased members

The 4th Duke of Abercorn, member of the Senate of Northern Ireland.
The Lord Ballyedmond, businessman and member of the Conservative Party. Previously, he sat as a Fianna Fáil senator in Seanad Éireann in Dublin.
The Lord Bannside, First Minister of Northern Ireland and founding leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
The Lord Blease, trade unionist and one-time member of the Northern Ireland Labour Party
The 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
The 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, Ulster Unionist Stormont MP
The Lord Cooke of Islandreagh, member of the Senate of Northern Ireland
The 1st Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
The 27th Baroness de Ros, suo jure peeress.
The 4th Lord Dunleath, Alliance Party Stormont MP.
The Lord Faulkner of Downpatrick, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Chief Executive of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
The Lord Fitt, founder leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
The 1st Lord Glentoran, Ulster Unionist Stormont MP.
The 2nd Lord Glentoran, Ulster Unionist Stormont MP.
The Lord Laird, former chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency and former Stormont MP
The Lord Lowry - Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
The Lord MacDermott - Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
The Lord McConnell, Ulster Unionist Stormont MP
The Lord Molyneaux of Killead, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
The Lord Moyola, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Ulster Unionist leader.
The Lord O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.
The 1st Lord Rathcavan, Ulster Unionist Westminster and Stormont MP.
The 2nd Lord Rathcavan, Ulster Unionist and, later, Alliance Party politician.
The Lord Steinberg, businessman and member of the Conservative Party
The 5th Duke of Westminster, Ulster Unionist Westminster MP.

References

↑ Irish Peers sat in the Irish House of Lords, with the passing of the Act of Union 1800 this House was abolished and twenty-eight Peers in the peerage of Ireland were elected to sit in the United Kingdom House of Lords between 1800 and 1922, when the right was exhausted due to the Government of Ireland Act.
↑ In the Earl of Antrim's Petition [1967] 1 A.C. 691 it was held that Irish Representative Peers did, in fact, represent Ireland as an entity, thus on the passing of the Government of Ireland Act elections from the Irish Peerage could no longer take place, as the Ireland of the Act of Union 1800 ceased to exist.
↑ Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore is disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while holding judicial office under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
↑ Baroness Blood resigned from the House of Lords under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 4 September 2018.
↑ Lord Glentoran resigned from the House of Lords under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 30 October 2017.
↑ Baroness Paisley of St George's resigned from the House of Lords under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 1 June 2017.