Members of the House of Lords

Lords Spiritual

26 bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man). Under the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, female bishops take precedence over men until May 2025 to become new Lords Spiritual for the 21 seats allocated by seniority.

Lords Temporal

Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999, and remaining law life peers.

Key

Indicates peer who returned to the House

Peer	Date joined	Party		Type	Notes
Lord Aberdare	20 July 2009		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Adams of Craigielea	28 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Paisley North from 1990 to 2005
Lord Addington	17 June 1986		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer
Lord Adebowale	30 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
Lord Adonis	16 May 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Transport
Baroness Afshar	11 December 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Commissioner of the UK Drug Policy Commission
Lord Agnew of Oulton	19 October 2017		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon	13 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Ahmed	3 August 1998		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Expelled from the Labour Party following conviction for dangerous driving
Lord Alderdice	8 October 1996		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Lord Allan of Hallam	22 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former chair of the Information Select Committee in the House of Commons
Lord Allen of Kensington	2 October 2013		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of executive board of the Labour Party
Lord Alli	18 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	First openly gay peer in parliament
Lord Alliance	1 July 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chairman of N Brown Group
Baroness Altmann	19 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Pensions expert and campaigner
Lord Alton of Liverpool	12 June 1997		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill from 1983 to 1997
Lord Anderson of Ipswich	10 July 2018		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Anderson of Swansea	28 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Swansea East from 1974 to 2005
Baroness Andrews	9 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Children, Schools and Families; chair of English Heritage
Baroness Anelay of St Johns	14 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and former Government Chief Whip in the Lords
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom	1 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Wanstead & Woodford 1987-1997 and for North East Hampshire 1997-2015.
Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare	27 July 1992		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Conservative whip withdrawn following conviction for perjury in 2000
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top	18 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster	26 February 1988		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Earl of Arran	25 April 1983		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Sudley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon	10 July 2001		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of the Liberal Democrats and United Nations High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lord Ashton of Hyde	25 July 2011		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Viscount Astor	4 July 1973		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Astor of Hever	11 February 1986		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Earl Attlee	2 March 1992		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former Government whip
Lord Bach	27 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in several departments and former Minister of State for Defence Procurement
Lord Baker of Dorking	16 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former Home Secretary, former Secretary of State for Education and Science and former of the Environment
Baroness Bakewell	21 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Writer and broadcaster
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville	9 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Councillor of South Somerset District Council
Lord Balfe	19 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former Member of the European Parliament for London from 1979 to 2004
Lord Bamford	3 October 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of JCB
Baroness Barker	31 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Liberal Democrats spokesperson on health matters
Lord Barker of Battle	12 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Bexhill & Battle 2001-2015
Baroness Barran	21 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Bassam of Brighton	3 November 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former Labour Chief Whip in the Lords. Former leader of Brighton Council
Lord Bates	30 June 2008		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Langbaurgh from 1992 to 1997
Lord Beecham	20 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former chairman of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee
Lord Beith	19 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1973 to 2015
Lord Bell	31 July 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Advertising and public relations executive who advised Margaret Thatcher for her three successful general election campaigns
Baroness Benjamin	26 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Actress, author and television presenter
Lord Berkeley	18 April 2000		Labour	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Gueterbock
Lord Berkeley of Knighton	26 March 2013		Crossbench	Life peer	Composer and music broadcaster
Baroness Berridge	18 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former executive director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship
Baroness Bertin	2 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former deputy press officer for David Cameron
Lord Best	4 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	President of the Local Government Association
Lord Bethell	19 July 2018		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Bew	26 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast
Lord Bhatia	5 June 2001		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Bhattacharyya	3 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Founder of the Warwick Manufacturing Group
Lord Bichard	24 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former permanent secretary for the Department for Education (and later the Department for Education and Employment)
Lord Bilimoria	16 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Founder and chairman of Cobra Beer
Baroness Billingham	2 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former Member of the European Parliament for Northamptonshire and Blaby from 1994 to 1999
Lord Bird	30 October 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Social entrepreneur and founder of The Big Issue
Lord Birt	11 February 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director-general of the BBC
Lord Black of Brentwood	9 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group
Baroness Blackstone	18 March 1987		Independent Labour	Life peer	Former Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts
Lord Blackwell	2 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit under the government of John Major from 1995 to 1997
Lord Blair of Boughton	20 July 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Blencathra	28 February 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former opposition chief whip
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist	5 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Blunkett	28 September 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987-2015. Cabinet minister 1997-2004 & 2005. Former Home Secretary.
Lord Boateng	27 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury	23 June 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Lead Liberal Democrats spokesperson on Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Lords
Baroness Boothroyd	15 January 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Speaker of the House of Commons
Lord Borwick	26 July 2013		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Boswell of Aynho	8 July 2010		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees
Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone	24 June 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Health and former Secretary of State for National Heritage
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth	9 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and member of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2011
Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted	23 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former member of the European Parliament for South East England
Lord Bowness	17 January 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Former leader of Croydon London Borough Council
Lord Boyce	16 June 2003		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Baroness Boycott	9 July 2018		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Brabazon of Tara	24 September 1976		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former Chairman of Committees
Lord Bradley	12 June 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 to 2005
Lord Bradshaw	22 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Liberal Democrats spokesperson on transport in the House of Lords
Baroness Brady	22 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands
Lord Bragg	4 August 1998		Labour	Life peer	Broadcaster and author
Lord Brennan	2 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the APPG on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Viscount Bridgeman	20 January 1983		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Bridges of Headley	28 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
Baroness Brinton	4 February 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England
Lord Broers	21 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, former vice-chancellor, University of Cambridge
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe	23 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation and former joint-general secretary of the Public Services Tax and Commerce Union
Viscount Brookeborough	10 September 1987		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Brookman	30 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation from 1993 to 1999
Lord Brougham and Vaux	24 January 1968		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Brown of Cambridge	30 October 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Vice-Chancellor of Aston University
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood	13 January 2004		Crossbench	Law life peer	Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2004–2009)
Lord Browne of Belmont	12 June 2006		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East from 2007 to 2011
Lord Browne of Ladyton	22 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Defence
Baroness Browning	9 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 1997 to 2010
Lord Bruce of Bennachie	19 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Gordon from 1983 to 2015, president of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
Baroness Bryan of Partick	20 June 2018		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Bull	11 July 2018		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Burnett	31 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Torridge and West Devon from 1997 to 2005
Lord Burns	20 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief economic advisor and permanent secretary at the treasury
Baroness Burt of Solihull	9 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Solihull from 2005 to 2015
Baroness Buscombe	23 July 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Chair of the Press Complaints Commission
Lord Butler of Brockwell	12 February 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness Butler-Sloss	13 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lady Justice of Appeal and former president of the Family Division of the High Court
Baroness Byford	15 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Conservative spokesperson on Food, Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007 in the House of Lords
Lord Caine	2 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Earl of Caithness	2 December 1969		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Chief of Clan Sinclair
Lord Callanan	24 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Former Conservative MEP for North East of England
Lord Cameron of Dillington	29 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	President of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists, former chair of the Countryside Agency
Baroness Campbell of Loughborough	10 November 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of UK Sport
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem	13 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of the Liberal Democrats 2006–07, former MP for North East Fife 1987–2015
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton	30 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, former chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and former commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission
Lord Campbell-Savours	4 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Workington 1979–2001
Lord Carey of Clifton	1 November 2002[lower-alpha 1]		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Carlile of Berriew	27 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Deputy High Court judge, Former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, president of the Howard League for Penal Reform,
Lord Carrington of Fulham	11 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Fulham from 1987 to 1997
Lord Carswell	12 January 2004		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Lord Carter of Barnes	15 October 2008		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former chief executive of Ofcom, group chief executive at Brunswick Group LLP and former Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting
Lord Carter of Coles	8 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the NHS Pathology review panel
Lord Cashman	23 September 2014		Labour	Life peer	Former MEP for West Midlands, former actor
Earl Cathcart	9 March 2007		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Cathcart
Lord Cavendish of Furness	17 May 1990		Conservative	Life peer	Former High Sheriff of Cumbria and a member of the Cumbria County Council, current chairman of the Holker Estate Group and president of South Cumbria Rivers Trust
Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice	6 September 2016		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Chadlington	16 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman, former chief executive and currently executive director of Huntsworth; former director of Halifax
Baroness Chakrabarti	6 September 2016		Labour	Life peer	Former director of Liberty
Baroness Chalker of Wallasey	24 April 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Overseas Development
Viscount Chandos	19 April 2000		Labour	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot
Lord Chartres	7 November 2017[lower-alpha 2]		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Bishop of London
Lord Chidgey	17 June 2005		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Eastleigh from 1994 to 2005
Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen	16 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Co-chairman of the Conservative candidates committee
Lord Christopher	30 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former chairman of the Tyre Industry Economic Development Council, former vice-president of the Building Societies Association, former general secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation
Earl of Clancarty	28 June 2010		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Sits as Viscount Clancarty in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Clark of Windermere	2 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of the Forestry Commission
Lord Clarke of Hampstead	29 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former chairman of the Labour Party, former deputy general secretary of the Union of Communication Workers
Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony	29 May 2009		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2017) and Master of the Rolls (2005–2009)
Lord Clement-Jones	17 July 1998		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former head of legal services and legal director in LWT and Grand Metropolitan respectively and former group secretary of Kingfisher plc, chairman of Environmental Context Ltd
Lord Coe	16 May 2000		Conservative	Life peer	Athlete and chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations
Baroness Cohen of Pimlico	3 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Author and former governor of the BBC
Lord Colgrain	27 March 2017		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Collins of Highbury	20 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Former assistant general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Collins of Mapesbury	21 April 2009		Crossbench	Law life peer	Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2009), Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2011)
Viscount Colville of Culross	25 July 2011		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Colwyn	2 January 1967		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal Society of Medicine, former president of the Huntington's Disease Association, the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry, the Arterial Health Foundation, of the Metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association and practising dentist for forty years
Lord Cooper of Windrush	17 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-chairman of West Ham United FC and senior non-executive director of the Syco and Arcadia brands
Lord Cope of Berkeley	4 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former Paymaster General
Earl of Cork and Orrery	19 July 2016		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Boyle of Marston, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his senior titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Cormack	18 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of the Northern Ireland Select Committee
Baroness Corston	29 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Lord Cotter	30 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Weston-super-Mare from 1997 to 2005
Earl of Courtown	24 July 1979		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Saltersford, in the Peerage of Great Britain; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Baroness Coussins	23 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief executive of the Portman Group
Baroness Couttie	5 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Leader of Westminster City Council
Baroness Cox	24 January 1983		Crossbench	Life peer	Founder and CEO of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust
Lord Craig of Radley	30 July 1991		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Viscount Craigavon	26 July 1974		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Crathorne	25 May 1977		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former director of (variously) Blakeney Hotels Ltd, Woodhouse Securities Ltd, Hand Picked Hotels, Cliveden Ltd.
Baroness Crawley	24 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of the Women's National Commission
Lord Crisp	28 April 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chief executive of the NHS
Lord Cromwell	10 April 2014		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk	17 June 2003		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord Justice General and former Lord President of the Court of Session, both senior positions in the Scottish judiciary
Baroness Cumberlege	18 May 1990		Conservative	Life peer	Vice President of the Royal Colleges of Nursing and Midwives
Lord Cunningham of Felling	27 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Currie of Marylebone	1 October 1996		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of Ofcom
Lord Curry of Kirkharle	13 October 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of NFU Mutual
Baroness D'Souza	1 July 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord Speaker, formerly Convenor of the Crossbench peers
Lord Dannatt	19 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the General Staff of the British Army
Lord Darling of Roulanish	1 December 2015		Labour	Life peer	Chancellor of the Exchequer 2007–2010
Lord Darzi of Denham	12 July 2007		Labour	Life peer	Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London
Lord Davidson of Glen Clova	22 March 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former Advocate General for Scotland, author of Judicial Review in Scotland, and the International Commission of Jurists' chef de mission for Egypt in 1998
Lord Davies of Abersoch	2 February 2009		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former minister of state for trade promotion and investment, former chairman of Standard Chartered Bank and Nordic Windpower, currently chairman of PineBridge Investments and partner at Corsair Private Equity partners
Lord Davies of Oldham	3 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Government Deputy Chief Whip 2003–2010 and Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Lord Davies of Stamford	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support, former diplomat
Lord Dear	15 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and former chief constable of West Midlands police
Lord Deben	21 June 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Secretary of State for the Environment 1993–97, former chairman of environment consultancy company Sancroft International and of Veolia Water
Baroness Deech	5 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Gresham Professor of Law at Gresham College
Lord Deighton	1 November 2012		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Lord Denham	9 December 1949		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Desai	5 June 1991		Labour	Life peer	Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics
Earl of Devon	12 July 2018		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Dholakia	24 October 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of Nacro
Lord Dixon-Smith	11 October 1993		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of Essex County Council
Lord Dobbs	18 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Author
Baroness Donaghy	26 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of ACAS,
Lord Donoughue	21 May 1985		Labour	Life peer	Visiting Professor of Government at the London School of Economics
Baroness Doocey	21 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of the London Assembly and has run DD Enterprises Management Consultancy
Baroness Drake	20 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former president of the Trades Union Congress and commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Lord Drayson	1 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Co-founder and former chief executive of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals
Lord Dubs	27 September 1994		Labour	Life peer	Former director of the Refugee Council, former chair of Liberty and former chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission
Lord Duncan of Springbank	14 July 2017		Conservative	Life peer	Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and former MEP for Scotland
Earl of Dundee	28 October 1983		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Dunlop	26 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Dykes	21 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former MP for Harrow East from 1970 to 1997
Lord Eames	25 August 1995		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
Baroness Eaton	21 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of the Local Government Association
Lord Eatwell	14 July 1992		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former professor of financial policy at Judge Business School
Viscount Eccles	24 March 2005		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Eccles of Moulton	10 May 1990		Conservative	Life peer	As the wife of Viscount Eccles, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Eccles"
Lord Elder	19 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party
Lord Elis-Thomas	18 September 1992		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former presiding officer of the National Assembly for Wales, former leader of Plaid Cymru
Lord Elton	13 May 1973		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Elystan-Morgan	27 May 1981		Crossbench	Life peer	Former circuit judge
Baroness Emerton	17 February 1997		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chancellor and chief commander of St John Ambulance and former chief nursing officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority
Lord Empey	15 January 2011		Ulster Unionist	Life peer	Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Earl of Erroll	30 June 1978		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park	12 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former director of the New Schools Network and deputy director at Policy Exchange
Lord Evans of Watford	28 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of several publishing companies
Lord Evans of Weardale	3 December 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director of the Security Service
Lord Fairfax of Cameron	26 November 2015		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Fairhead	19 October 2017		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of the BBC Trust
Lord Falconer of Thoroton	14 May 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former Lord Chancellor
Baroness Falkender	11 July 1974		Labour	Life peer	Former political secretary to Harold Wilson
Viscount Falkland	27 April 1984		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Falkner of Margravine	2 June 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chief executive of Student Partnerships Worldwide
Baroness Fall	22 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff
Lord Farmer	5 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Founding partner of RK Mine Finance group, trustee of the Kingham Hill Trust and Conservative Party co-treasurer
Lord Faulkner of Worcester	14 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections
Lord Faulks	21 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Recorder
Baroness Featherstone	20 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green from 2005 to 2015
Lord Feldman of Elstree	17 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chief executive and former managing director of Jayroma (London) Ltd, former chairman of the Conservative Party
Lord Fellowes	12 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the Prison Reform Trust and former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord Fellowes of West Stafford	12 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books and vice-president of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust
Lord Filkin	29 July 1999		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former parliamentary under-secretary of state in various government departments
Lord Fink	18 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	CEO and chairman of the Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund company in the world
Lord Finkelstein	11 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Current Executive Editor of The Times
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff	28 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Cardiff University School of Medicine and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine
Baroness Finn	14 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former special adviser at the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Baroness Flather	11 June 1990		Crossbench	Life peer	First Asian woman to receive a peerage
Lord Flight	13 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005
Baroness Fookes	30 September 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former chair of the RSPCA and former deputy speaker of the House of Commons
Baroness Ford	5 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the London 2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company, former chief executive of Good Practice Limited, managing director (Social Infrastructure and Development) of Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, chairman of Irvine Bay Urban Regeneration Company and president of Epilepsy Action
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean	14 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Foster of Bath	7 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Bath from 1992 to 2015
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland	16 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former opposition chief whip in the Commons
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock	16 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Member of the Scottish Parliament, former chairman of Hearts Football club and president of the Caribbean Britain Business Council
Lord Fowler	3 July 2001		Lord Speaker	Life peer	Former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee
Lord Fox	11 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive
Lord Framlingham	14 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former deputy Speaker in the House of Commons
Lord Fraser of Corriegarth	31 August 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Freeman	29 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Freud	27 June 2009		Conservative	Life peer	Former vice-chairman of investing banking at UBS AG
Lord Freyberg	7 March 1994		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Fritchie	31 May 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Honorary Professor of Creative Leadership at the University of York and six other Universities
Lord Gadhia	31 August 2016		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Baroness Gale	4 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	President of National Association of Old Age Pensioners, Wales and president of Treherbert and District British Legion
Baroness Garden of Frognal	15 October 2007		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Vice President of the Institute of Export
Lord Gardiner of Kimble	23 June 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Deputy chief executive of the Countryside Alliance
Baroness Gardner of Parkes	19 June 1981		Conservative	Life peer	Australian-born dentist
Lord Garel-Jones	22 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former whip in the House of Commons and Minister for Europe
Lord Garnier	22 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Harborough from 1992 to 2017
Lord Geddes	20 March 1975		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Geidt	3 November 2017		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord German	24 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former deputy First Minister of Wales
Lord Giddens	16 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics of sociology and social theory with fifteen honorary degrees from other universities, author of The Politics of Climate Change
Lord Gilbert of Panteg	30 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party
Earl of Glasgow	17 January 2005		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer
Lord Glasman	4 February 2011		Labour	Life peer	Senior lecturer in political theory at London Metropolitan University
Lord Glenarthur	21 June 1977		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Glendonbrook	1 February 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Owner of BMI
Lord Goddard of Stockport	15 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Stockport Council
Lord Gold	1 February 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Lawyer
Baroness Goldie	3 October 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament from 2005 until 2011
Baroness Golding	13 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Radiographer and former MP
Lord Goldsmith	29 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former Attorney General
Lord Goodlad	19 July 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of the Constitution Committee
Lord Gordon of Strathblane	4 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former political editor of STV, former managing director of Radio Clyde, former chief executive and chair of Scottish Radio Holdings, currently chair of Johnston Press plc, Radio Audience Research and AIM Trust Plc
Viscount Goschen	15 July 1988		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Goudie	21 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former European director of public affairs for the World Wide Fund for Nature, chair of the Women Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at UN Gift
Baroness Gould of Potternewton	6 October 1993		Labour	Life peer	Former pharmacist, former director of organisation for the Labour Party and former executive member of the Women's National Commission
Lord Grabiner	26 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Head of Chambers at One Essex Court and deputy High Court Judge
Lord Grade of Yarmouth	25 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Former chairman of the BBC Board of Governors
Lord Grantchester	31 October 2003		Labour	Hereditary peer	Former director of Littlewoods and former chairman of the Dairy Farmers of Britain,
Lord Greaves	4 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former member of Lancashire County Council for 25 years
Lord Green of Deddington	28 November 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former British ambassador
Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint	16 November 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former group chairman of HSBC Holdings plc
Baroness Greenfield	18 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and former director of the Royal Institution
Baroness Greengross	10 February 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director-general of Age Concern England
Lord Greenway	8 October 1975		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Former chairman of The World Ship Trust
Baroness Grender	4 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former head of communications for the Liberal Democrats
Baroness Grey-Thompson	23 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Former paralympic athlete
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port	30 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former President of the Methodist Conference
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach	5 February 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-president of the Nature in Art trust and vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International
Lord Grocott	2 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former presenter and producer at Central Television and former MP
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank	27 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Hague of Richmond	9 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and former Leader of the House of Commons
Viscount Hailsham	12 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham from 1979 to 2010; hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe.
Lord Hain	22 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Neath from 1991 to 2015
Lord Hall of Birkenhead	19 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Chief executive of the Royal Opera House, former director of news at the BBC, chairman of Creative & Cultural Skills and former chair of the Royal Television Society
Lord Hameed	27 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital, former executive director and chief executive officer of the Cromwell Hospital, president of The Little Foundation and chairman of The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths
Lord Hamilton of Epsom	17 June 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and former chairman of the 1922 Committee
Baroness Hamwee	6 June 1991		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Vice president of Parity and
Baroness Hanham	15 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust and Westminster Primary Care Trust, former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government
Lord Hannay of Chiswick	19 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former senior diplomat
Lord Hanningfield	31 July 1998		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former leader of Essex County Council and former chair of the Council of Local Education Authorities and former leader of the Association of County Councils, co-founder of local government think-tank Localis
Viscount Hanworth	30 March 2011		Labour	Hereditary peer
Baroness Harding of Winscombe	15 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Chief executive of TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC
Lord Harries of Pentregarth	30 June 2006[lower-alpha 3]		Crossbench	Life peer	Gresham Professor of Divinity, former Bishop of Oxford; chair of the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority Ethics and Law Committee and former chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research
Lord Harris of Haringey	5 August 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former chair of the Association of London Government, former leader of Haringey Borough Council, former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, member of the London Assembly and chair of Freedom
Lord Harris of Peckham	11 January 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of Carpetright Plc
Baroness Harris of Richmond	6 August 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of the Industry and Parliament Trust, president of the National Association of Chaplains to the Police and former chair of North Yorkshire County Council and Police Authority
Lord Harrison	28 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former MEP
Lord Haselhurst	22 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons)
Lord Haskel	4 October 1993		Labour	Life peer	President of the Environment Industries Commission, and former international president of The Textile Institute
Lord Haskins	25 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of Northern Foods, former chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and chairman of the Council of the Open University
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick	12 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Vice-president of Catch22, ambassador of Make Justice Work
Lord Haughey	18 September 2013		Labour	Life peer
Lord Haworth	28 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy leader of the Labour Party and former Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Affairs
Lord Hay of Ballyore	16 December 2014		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Baroness Hayman	2 January 1996		Crossbench	Life peer	Lord Speaker (2006–11) and former chair of Cancer Research UK, former chair of the Human Tissue Authority and former chair of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town	22 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Fabian Society 1976-1982. Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party 1990-1996. Chair of the Labour Party 2007-2008.
Lord Hayward	28 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill	19 July 2010		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Helic	18 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Government special adviser on preventing sexual violence in conflict zones
Baroness Henig	8 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the Security Industry Authority
Lord Henley	28 February 1978		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Northington, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield	8 November 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London
Lord Heseltine	12 July 2001		Conservative	Life peer	Former Deputy Prime Minister, former Secretary of State for Defence, the Environment and former President of the Board of Trade
Lord Higgins	28 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Hill of Oareford	27 May 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former European Commissioner for Financial Stability Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, former Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon	14 June 1991		Labour	Life peer	Former commander of the Metropolitan Police
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger	16 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts	7 June 2000		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Hoffmann	21 February 1995		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and Professor of Law at Queen Mary College, University of London
Lord Hogan-Howe	7 November 2017		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Baroness Hogg	3 February 1995		Crossbench	Life peer	As the wife of Viscount Hailsham, she is also entitled to the style "Viscountess Hailsham"
Lord Hollick	20 June 1991		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Hollins	15 November 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, former president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists
Baroness Hollis of Heigham	1 June 1990		Labour	Life peer	Former lecturer in modern history, reader and dean at the University of East Anglia
Lord Holmes of Richmond	13 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Earl of Home	24 September 1996		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Hooper	10 June 1985		Conservative	Life peer	President of Waste Watch, president of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills, and president of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal
Lord Hope of Craighead	28 February 1995		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Horam	4 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Houghton of Richmond	20 November 2017		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Howard of Lympne	13 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former Home Secretary and former Leader of the Opposition
Lord Howard of Rising	4 June 2004		Conservative	Life peer	Director of Fortress Holdings
Baroness Howarth of Breckland	25 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, former chief executive of ChildLine and vice-chair of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation
Lord Howarth of Newport	15 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon 1983-1997 and for Newport East 1997-2005.
Earl Howe	30 October 1984		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Deputy Leader of the House and Minister of State for Defence
Baroness Howe of Idlicote	29 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission
Lord Howell of Guildford	6 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretaries of State for Energy and Transport
Baroness Howells of St Davids	21 July 1999		Labour	Life peer
Lord Hoyle	14 May 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Nelson & Colne 1974-1979 and for Warrington 1981-1983 and then Warrington North 1983-1997.
Baroness Hughes of Stretford	15 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former head of the Department of Social Policy at the University of Manchester and former Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families and former MP
Lord Hughes of Woodside	27 September 1997		Labour	Life peer	Vice-president of Humanists UK
Baroness Humphreys	18 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Hunt of Chesterton	5 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former director-general and chief executive of the Meteorological Office, professor of climate modelling at University College London
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath	20 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	President of the Royal Society for Public Health and former chief executive of the NHS Confederation, and former director of its two predecessor organisations
Lord Hunt of Wirral	20 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Partner at the law firm Beachcroft LLP
Lord Hussain	20 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Deputy Group Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Luton Borough Council
Baroness Hussein-Ece	25 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former non-executive director of Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, and former equality and human rights commissioner
Lord Hutton of Furness	27 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and former Secretary of State for Defence
Lord Hylton	6 June 1968		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Inglewood	23 November 1989		Non-affiliated	Hereditary peer
Lord Irvine of Lairg	25 March 1987		Labour	Life peer	Former Lord Chancellor
Lord James of Blackheath	9 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Corporate trouble-shooter and former agent for MI5
Baroness Janke	24 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Bristol City Council
Lord Janvrin	10 October 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Permanent Lord-in-waiting; former Private Secretary to the Queen
Lord Jay of Ewelme	18 September 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former permanent secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service
Baroness Jay of Paddington	29 July 1992		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington	26 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	PR consultant, and active in promoting women in Parliament
Baroness Jolly	24 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of executive committee of Liberal Democrats in Devon and Cornwall
Lord Jones	6 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for East Flintshire 1970-1983 and for Alyn & Deeside 1983-2001
Lord Jones of Birmingham	10 July 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry
Lord Jones of Cheltenham	20 June 2005		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former computer programmer and systems analyst at International Computers Limited and former MP
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb	20 September 2013		Green	Life peer
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch	5 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Director of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON and former chair of the Labour Party
Lord Jopling	5 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Jordan	5 June 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former president of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, former general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, former governor of both the BBC and the London School of Economics
Lord Judd	10 June 1991		Labour	Life peer	Former director of Oxfam
Lord Judge	1 October 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2008-13
Lord Kakkar	22 March 2010		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Surgical Sciences at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University
Lord Kalms	1 June 2004		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Life president and former chairman of DSG International plc and former chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies
Lord Keen of Elie	8 June 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Kennedy of Cradley	19 September 2013		Labour	Life peer
Lord Kennedy of Southwark	21 June 2010		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws	27 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Criminal and human rights lawyer, chair of JUSTICE
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard	30 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service
Lord Kerslake	17 March 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Former permanent secretary to the Department of Communities and Local Government and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Kestenbaum	24 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Chief Executive of National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Baroness Kidron	25 June 2012		Crossbench	Life peer	Film director
Lord Kilclooney	17 July 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party; the only active politician to have served in all levels of government in Northern Ireland, from local council, the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Westminster, Europe, all previous failed Assemblies and Conventions and the current incarnation of the Assembly
Lord King of Bridgwater	9 July 2001		Conservative	Life peer	Former Environment Secretary, former Transport Secretary, former Employment Secretary, former Northern Ireland Secretary and former chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee
Lord King of Lothbury	19 July 2013		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Governor of the Bank of England
Baroness Kingsmill	1 June 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy chair of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and of the Competition Commission
Lord Kinnock	28 January 2005		Labour	Life peer	Leader of the Labour Party 1983–92, former European Commissioner for Transport and Administrative Reform and Vice-President of the European Commission
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead	30 June 2009		Labour	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Europe and for Africa and the United Nations
Earl of Kinnoull	6 February 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Kirkham	23 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer	Executive Chairman of DFS Furniture Company Ltd
Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate	7 October 2016		Conservative	Life peer	Former MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber from 1999 to 2016 and MP for Leeds North East from 1987 to 1997
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope	10 June 2005		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP
Lord Knight of Weymouth	23 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	MP for South Dorset 2001-2010
Baroness Kramer	22 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former vice-president of Citibank, director and co-founder of International Capital Partners, former MP. Minister of State for Transport 2013-2015
Lord Krebs	28 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, former chair of the Food Standards Agency, member of the committee on climate change and chair of adaptation sub-committee, chair of the Royal Society Science Policy Advisory Group
Lord Laming	27 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Psychiatric social worker and chairman of the Harold Shipman inquiry and the Baby P inquiry
Lord Lamont of Lerwick	24 July 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho	25 March 2013		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Lang of Monkton	29 September 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former President of the Board of Trade, current chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments and future chairman of the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc
Lord Lansley	5 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former Leader of the House of Commons
Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon	6 September 2013		Labour	Life peer
Lord Lawson of Blaby	1 July 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Layard	3 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Lord Lea of Crondall	20 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former assistant general secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Lee of Trafford	26 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Leigh of Hurley	16 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Leitch	7 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of Bupa, Scottish Widows and Intrinsic Financial Services, former chairman and chief executive of Zurich's British operations
Lord Lennie	22 September 2014		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy secretary general of the Labour Party
Lord Lester of Herne Hill	13 October 1993		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Levene of Portsoken	22 July 1997		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of Lloyd's of London and former vice chairman of Deutsche Bank
Lord Levy	23 September 1997		Labour	Life peer	President of Jews' Free School, former special envoy to the Middle East; arrested but not charged in relation to the Cash for Honours affair
Lord Lexden	23 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former consultant and editor in chief of the Conservative Research Department and former lecturer in modern history
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former British High Commissioner to Australia and former Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Liddle	19 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the International Think Tank Policy Network and former chairman of the Public Policy Centre and former managing director of Prima Europe Ltd, a consultancy company
Lord Lilley	18 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Social Security and for Trade and Industry, former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
Earl of Lindsay	21 December 1989		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Lingfield	17 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of the League of Mercy, former director-general of St. John Ambulance and advocate of free schools
Lord Lipsey	30 July 1999		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Baroness Lister of Burtersett	31 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University
Earl of Listowel	31 July 1998		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	Sits as Baron Hare in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland
Lord Lisvane	11 December 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Clerk of the House of Commons
Lord Livermore	21 October 2015		Labour	Life peer
Earl of Liverpool	23 October 1969		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Livingston of Parkhead	12 July 2013		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister for Trade and Investment
Lord Loomba	12 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Executive chairman of the Rinku Group and pioneer of widow's rights
Marquess of Lothian	22 November 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Kerr of Monteviot
Lord Low of Dalston	13 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Leeds
Lord Lucas	21 February 1992		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Luce	2 October 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Governor of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain
Baroness Ludford	30 September 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	MEP for London 1999-2014
Lord Lupton	6 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Earl of Lytton	16 May 2011		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord de Mauley	15 March 2005		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord McAvoy	22 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former deputy chief whip in the House of Commons
Lord McColl of Dulwich	25 July 1989		Conservative	Life peer	Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Guy's Hospital, associated with King's College London
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale	28 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former First Minister of Scotland
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown	19 June 2018		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former MP for South Antrim (2000–2001, 2005–2015) and for Mid Ulster (1983–1997)
Baroness McDonagh	24 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven	12 July 2010		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former Director of Public Prosecutions
Lord McFall of Alcluith	17 June 2010		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Senior Deputy Speaker, former chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market	5 July 2001		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretaries of State for Transport and Education and Science, chairman of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee
Baroness McGregor-Smith	16 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord McInnes of Kilwinning	1 September 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall	3 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former associate producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, former executive director of the Royal National Theatre
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering	6 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Mackay of Clashfern	6 July 1979		Conservative	Life peer	Formerly Lord Chancellor and Law Lord, Lord Advocate, a former judge of the Court of Session and editor-in-chief of Halsbury's Laws of England
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein	4 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former nurse and president of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate	17 July 1998		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former chief superintendent in the Durham Constabulary, former president of the Police Superintendents' Association
Lord McKenzie of Luton	18 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former partner at accounting firm Price Waterhouse
Lord Maclennan of Rogart	19 July 2001		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Social and Liberal Democrats
Lord McNally	20 December 1995		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Justice and leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
Lord McNicol of West Kilbride	21 June 2018		Labour	Life peer	Former General Secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court	4 October 2016		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
Baroness Maddock	30 October 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Magan of Castletown	25 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass	20 July 2001		Independent Ulster Unionist	Life peer	Former Ulster Unionist MP and Peer. Resigned from the UUP on 28 August 2012[1]
Lord Mair	29 October 2015		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Cambridge
Baroness Mallalieu	19 June 1991		Labour	Life peer	President of the Countryside Alliance
Lord Malloch-Brown	9 July 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	Former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and briefly Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Lord Mance	3 October 2005		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Deputy President (2017–2018) and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2009–2018) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2005–2009)
Lord Mancroft	23 February 1988		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former chair of the Addict Recovery Foundation, former chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation
Lord Mandelson	13 October 2008		Labour	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Northern Ireland and former European Commissioner for Trade
Baroness Manningham-Buller	2 June 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director of the Security Service
Baroness Manzoor	6 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Countess of Mar	11 September 1975		Crossbench	Hereditary peer	President of the Elderly Accommodation Counsel, former president of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists and former chairman of both Honest Food and the Environmental Medicine Foundation
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames	11 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Commercial and family law QC with specialist interest in human rights and constitutional reform
Lord Marland	8 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of Herriot Ltd and of Hunter Boot Ltd
Lord Marlesford	7 June 1991		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Masham of Ilton	12 February 1970		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of Phoenix House
Baroness Massey of Darwen	26 July 1999		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the National Treatment Agency for substance misuse
Lord Maude of Horsham	26 May 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Mawson	29 March 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	A founder and board member of Poplar HARCA (housing association) and author of The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work
Lord Maxton	17 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Meacher	16 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of the Security Industry Authority, former chair of the Police Complaints Authority and two NHS trusts, and a social worker
Lord Mendelsohn	5 September 2013		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Meyer	19 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer	28 July 1998		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Leader South Somerset District Council, Somerset County Councillor, environmental campaigner
Lord Mitchell	10 May 2000		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Mogg	28 May 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of Ofgem and former director general for the Internal Market and Financial Services in the European Commission
Baroness Mone	30 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Businesswoman, founder Ultimo
Lord Monks	26 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of both the Trades Union Congress and the European Trade Union Confederation
Duke of Montrose	26 May 1995		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Moonie	22 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former clinical pharmacologist and community medicine specialist and former MP for Kirkcaldy 1987-2005.
Lord Moore of Lower Marsh	3 July 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretaries of State for Social Services and Transport
Lord Morgan	12 June 2000		Labour	Life peer	Professor of History at Brunel University
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin	11 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director or chief executive of various voluntary sector organisations such as Shelter, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Workplace Nursery Campaign and Childcare Umbrella
Baroness Morgan of Ely	24 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University and former MEP
Baroness Morgan of Huyton	20 June 2001		Labour	Life peer
Lord Morris of Aberavon	3 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Former Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland
Baroness Morris of Bolton	9 June 2004		Conservative	Life peer	President of the National Benevolent Institution
Lord Morris of Handsworth	7 June 2006		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
Baroness Morris of Yardley	14 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Birmingham Yardley 1992-2005. Former Secretary State for Education
Lord Morrow	7 June 2006		Democratic Unionist	Life peer	Former Minister for Social Development in Northern Ireland
Lord Mountevans	8 July 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Moynihan	30 April 1997		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Murphy	17 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Former professor of psychiatry of old age at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals United Medical School
Lord Murphy of Torfaen	20 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015
Lord Myners	16 October 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chairman of the Guardian Media Group and former chairman of the Low Pay Commission
Lord Naseby	28 October 1997		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Nash	21 January 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Neuberger	15 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer	Philanthropist, author, social reformer, rabbi, former chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, former chairman of the King's Fund
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury	11 January 2007		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former President of the Supreme Court (2012–2017), Master of the Rolls (2009–2012) and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2007–2009)
Baroness Neville-Jones	15 October 2007		Conservative	Life peer	Former Minister of State for Security, former diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Baroness Neville-Rolfe	10 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Newby	25 September 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust
Baroness Newlove	14 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Community reform campaigner
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne	3 November 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Executive Chairman of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation and of the Iraq Britain Business Council
Baroness Noakes	7 June 2000		Conservative	Life peer	Former partner at KPMG
Duke of Norfolk	14 February 2003		Non-affiliated	Hereditary peer	Earl Marshal
Lord Northbrook	23 September 1991		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Northover	1 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Norton of Louth	1 August 1998		Conservative	Life peer	Professor of Government at the University of Hull
Baroness Nye	19 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former director of government relations, former diary secretary to the then–prime minister Gordon Brown
Baroness O'Cathain	21 June 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Former director of, amongst others, Midland Bank plc, Tesco plc, British Airways plc, BNP Paribas and Allders
Lord O'Donnell	10 January 2012		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Baroness O'Loan	11 September 2009		Crossbench	Life peer	Former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Enquiry
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve	25 February 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, founding president of the British Philosophical Association, former chair of the Nuffield Foundation and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and former president of the British Academy
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan	14 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire 1979-1983, Clackmannan 1983-1997 and Ochil 1997-2005
Lord O'Neill of Gatley	28 May 2015		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord O'Shaughnessy	1 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay	1 May 2000		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Oates	5 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes	9 February 1989		Conservative	Life peer	Former social worker
Lord Ouseley	26 June 2001		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair and chief executive of the Commission for Racial Equality
Lord Owen	30 June 1992		Independent Social Democrat	Life peer	Former Foreign Secretary, and former co-chairman of the Conference on Yugoslavia, and leader of the Social Democratic Party 1983–87, and the continuing Social Democratic Party 1988–90
Lord Oxburgh	27 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Geophysicist and geologist, former head of the department of earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Geological Society of London
Earl of Oxford and Asquith	24 October 2014		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer
Lord Paddick	12 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Palmer	2 October 1990		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill	17 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former councillor
Lord Palumbo	4 February 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Property developer and chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain
Lord Palumbo of Southwark	2 October 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Pannick	3 November 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Leading human rights barrister, arguing over a hundred cases before the UK's highest court and the European Court of Justice and of Human Rights
Lord Parekh	10 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, emeritus professor of political theory at the University of Hull, emeritus professor of political philosophy at the University of Westminster
Baroness Parminter	15 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former head of public affairs at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and former chief executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England
Lord Patel	1 March 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, former chairmen of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of Scotland and of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges of the United Kingdom and former professor of Obstetrics at the University of Dundee
Lord Patel of Blackburn	14 February 2000		Labour	Life peer
Lord Patel of Bradford	8 June 2006		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Professor at the University of Central Lancashire
Lord Patten	17 June 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Education
Lord Patten of Barnes	11 January 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of the BBC Trust, former Secretary of State for the Environment, former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, former European Commissioner for External Relations
Lord Paul	9 October 1996		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Resigned the Labour whip in October 2010
Lord Pearson of Rannoch	18 June 1990		UK Independence	Life peer	Former leader of UK Independence Party
Earl Peel	15 May 1973		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Pendry	4 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	President of Oyston Steel Estates Ltd, president of the Football Foundation Ltd
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers	12 January 1999		Crossbench	Law life peer	President of the Supreme Court (2009–2012), Senior Law Lord (2008—2009), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2005–2008), Master of the Rolls (2000–2005), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1999–2000)
Lord Pickles	18 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and former Chairman of the Conservative Party
Baroness Pidding	8 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Pinnock	23 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Kirklees Council
Baroness Pitkeathley	6 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former chief executive of Carers UK and a founding member of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations
Lord Plant of Highfield	24 July 1992		Labour	Life peer	Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy at King's College London and former Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton
Lord Polak	2 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede	19 April 2000		Labour	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton
Lord Popat	10 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Founder and chairman of hospitality and health care firm TLC Group Ltd
Lord Porter of Spalding	15 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Powell of Bayswater	15 February 2000		Crossbench	Life peer	Former diplomat
Baroness Prashar	15 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and president of the Royal Commonwealth Society
Lord Prescott	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former Deputy Prime Minister
Lord Price	29 February 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Primarolo	26 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Bristol South from 1987-2015
Lord Prior of Brampton	29 May 2015		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Baroness Prosser	11 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Deputy Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and former president of the Trades Union Congress
Lord Purvis of Tweed	13 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Puttnam	27 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Film producer
Baroness Quin	30 May 2006		Labour	Life peer	Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section) and former Minister of State for Europe
Lord Radice	16 July 2001		Labour	Life peer	Author, chairman of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe and former chairman of Policy Network
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale	11 October 1996		Labour	Life peer	Former diplomat and former case officer in the Secret Intelligence Service
Lord Ramsbotham	17 May 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former general and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons
Lord Rana	16 June 2004		Conservative	Life peer	President of Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Lord Randall of Uxbridge	25 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Uxbridge or Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 1997 to 2015
Baroness Randerson	27 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Sport and the Welsh Language and former Cardiff Council Leader
Baroness Rawlings	5 October 1994		Conservative	Life peer	President of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and former chairman of King's College London Council
Lord Razzall	22 October 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Rea	21 April 1982		Labour	Hereditary peer	Doctor
Baroness Rebuck	18 September 2014		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of Penguin Random House UK publishers
Lord Redesdale	18 April 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Hereditary peer who sits by virtue of a life peerage, Baron Mitford
Baroness Redfern	7 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Rees of Ludlow	6 September 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and Astronomer Royal, president of the Royal Society
Lord Reid of Cardowan	16 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former Secretaries of State for Scotland, Health, Defence and former Home Secretary
Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn	24 June 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton
Lord Rennard	21 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Ribeiro	20 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former CONSULTANT GENERAL SURgeon; member of the Health Policy Research Advisory Board of the American College of Surgeons
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux	24 February 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Baroness Richardson of Calow	3 August 1998		Crossbench	Life peer	Former President of the Methodist Conference
Lord Ricketts	17 October 2016		Crossbench	Life peer	Former UK Ambassador to France, former National Security Adviser and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Viscount Ridley	8 February 2013		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Scientist, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Lord Risby	24 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party responsible for business links in the City of London
Lord Robathan	13 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for South Leicestershire from 2010 to 2015 and for Blaby from 1992 to 2010
Lord Roberts of Llandudno	15 June 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former president of the Welsh Liberal Democrats
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen	24 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Former NATO Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defence
Baroness Rock	15 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank	12 February 1992		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Transport, former director-general of the Royal Institute of British Architects, former chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority; member of the Gang of Four that founded the Social Democratic Party
Lord Rogan	16 July 1999		Ulster Unionist	Life peer	Former president of the Ulster Unionist Party
Lord Rogers of Riverside	17 October 1996		Labour	Life peer	Modernist architect and winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize
Lord Rooker	16 June 2001		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of the Food Standards Agency
Lord Rose of Monewden	17 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Former chief executive and chairman of Marks & Spencer
Lord Rosser	14 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Earl of Rosslyn	17 December 1979		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Rotherwick	30 July 1996		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Rowe-Beddoe	15 June 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
Lord Rowlands	28 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	25 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Russell of Liverpool	11 December 2014		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Ryder of Wensum	22 November 1997		Conservative	Life peer	Former vice-chairman of the BBC
Lord Saatchi	4 October 1996		Conservative	Life peer	Co-founder and executive director of Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi
Lord Sacks	1 September 2009		Crossbench	Life peer	Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Lord St John of Bletso	8 June 1978		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Earl of Sandwich	26 April 1995		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Sassoon	29 May 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and former president of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
Baroness Sater	20 June 2018		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Saville of Newdigate	28 July 1997		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Sawyer	4 August 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Baroness Scott of Bybrook	8 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Scott of Needham Market	11 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former president of the Liberal Democrats
Lord Scriven	19 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of Sheffield City Council
Baroness Seccombe	14 February 1991		Conservative	Life peer
Earl of Selborne	23 December 1971		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Selkirk of Douglas	29 September 1997		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Selsdon	30 July 1963		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia	21 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Solicitor
Lord Sharkey	20 December 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chairman of the Liberal Democrat 2010 General Election campaign
Baroness Sheehan	2 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Sheikh	6 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman and executive of Camberford Law
Baroness Shephard of Northwold	21 June 2005		Conservative	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Education and Employment and former Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury	12 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Sherlock	17 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former chief executive of the Refugee Council, former chief executive of the National Council for One Parent Families and former director of the education charity UKCOSA
Lord Shinkwin	14 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Shipley	14 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Earl of Shrewsbury	16 February 1981		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Lord High Steward of Ireland
Lord Shutt of Greetland	12 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Viscount Simon	19 May 1994		Labour	Hereditary peer
Lord Singh of Wimbledon	12 October 2011		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Skelmersdale	8 July 1974		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Skidelsky	15 July 1991		Crossbench	Life peer	Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick
Viscount Slim	1 April 1971		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Smith of Basildon	7 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Shadow leader of the House of Lords. Former Minister of State for Third Sector. Former MP for Basildon 1997-2010.
Lord Smith of Clifton	4 November 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Professor of Politics at Queen Mary College, honorary Professor of Politics of the University of Ulster and former visiting Professor of Politics at the Universities of York and Portsmouth
Lord Smith of Finsbury	22 June 2005		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and former chair of the Advertising Standards Authority
Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill	17 February 1995		Labour	Life peer	President of Scottish Opera and chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Lord Smith of Hindhead	29 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive of the Association of Conservative Clubs
Lord Smith of Kelvin	29 May 2008		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of Weir Group and Scottish and Southern Energy former governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
Lord Smith of Leigh	5 August 1999		Labour	Life peer	Chairman of Local Government Leadership
Baroness Smith of Newnham	12 September 2014		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Senior lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University
Lord Snape	9 June 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former MP and implicated in the Cash for Influence scandal
Lord Soley	29 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	Former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and former MP
Duke of Somerset	12 December 2014		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Spicer	8 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP and former chairman of the 1922 Committee
Earl of Stair	29 May 2008		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Stedman-Scott	12 July 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Chief Executive of Tomorrow's People Trust
Lord Steel of Aikwood	6 June 1997		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of the Liberal Party and former MP and MSP
Lord Stephen	2 February 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and former deputy first minister of Scotland
Lord Sterling of Plaistow	17 January 1991		Conservative	Life peer	Chairman of Motability, former executive chairman of P&O
Baroness Stern	13 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Former director of NACRO, former secretary general of Penal Reform International and author of many books on prison reform
Lord Stern of Brentford	10 December 2007		Crossbench	Life peer	IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, author of the Stern Report
Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington	6 April 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
Lord Stevens of Ludgate	27 March 1987		UK Independence	Life peer
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara	13 July 2010		Labour	Life peer
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham	13 July 1999		Crossbench	Life peer	Chairman of Manocap, former chairmen of Aerfi, Pearson and HBOS
Lord Stirrup	28 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Stoddart of Swindon	14 September 1983		Independent Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Swindon 1970-1983
Lord Stone of Blackheath	29 October 1997		Labour	Life peer	Former joint-managing director of Marks and Spencer, chairman of Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation
Lord Stoneham of Droxford	17 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Liberal Democrats HQ Operations Director
Lord Storey	2 February 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Councillor and former leader of Liverpool City Council
Baroness Stowell of Beeston	10 January 2011		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Whip, BBC Head of Corporate Affairs, and civil servant
Lord Strasburger	10 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Strathclyde	18 March 1986		Conservative	Hereditary peer	Former leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Stroud	1 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Stunell	26 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Former MP for Hazel Grove from 1997-2015
Lord Sugar	20 July 2009		Crossbench	Life peer	TV personality and businessman
Baroness Sugg	30 August 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Suri	11 September 2014		Conservative	Life peer	Businessman and formerly the general secretary of the Board of British Sikhs
Baroness Suttie	17 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Swinfen	13 May 1977		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean	7 October 1996		Labour	Life peer
Lord Taverne	5 February 1996		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	MP for Lincoln 1962-1974
Baroness Taylor of Bolton	13 June 2005		Labour	Life peer	MP for Bolton West 1974-1983; MP for Dewsbury 1987-2005. Cabinet minister 1997-2001.
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor	16 July 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Taylor of Holbeach	31 May 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Government Chief Whip in the Lords
Lord Taylor of Warwick	2 October 1996		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Lord Tebbit	6 July 1992		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP 1970-1992; former cabinet minister. Chairman of the Conservative Party 1985-1987.
Lord Teverson	1 June 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd	4 October 2013		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2013–2017)
Lord Thomas of Gresford	30 September 1996		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Deputy High Court Judge
Baroness Thomas of Winchester	26 May 2006		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Thornhill	21 October 2015		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Thornton	23 July 1998		Labour	Life peer
Lord Thurlow	6 February 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Viscount Thurso	20 April 2016		Liberal Democrat	Hereditary peer	Former MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross from 2001 to 2015
Lord Tomlinson	21 July 1998		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Meriden 1974-1979. Former MEP for Birmingham West 1984-1999.
Baroness Tonge	23 June 2005		Non-affiliated	Life peer	MP for Richmond Park 1997–2005, Liberal Democrat peer 2005–2012
Lord Tope	4 October 1994		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Touhig	28 June 2010		Labour	Life peer	MP for Islwyn 1995-2010
Lord Trees	3 July 2012		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Trefgarne	29 June 1962		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Viscount Trenchard	17 May 2004		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord Trevethin and Oaksey	22 October 2015		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Triesman	9 January 2004		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Trimble	2 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer	Former First Minister of Northern Ireland. Former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
Lord True	23 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Former head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit
Lord Truscott	10 June 2004		Independent Labour	Life peer
Lord Tugendhat	15 October 1993		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Tunnicliffe	2 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Lord Turnberg	4 May 2000		Labour	Life peer	Former Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester
Lord Turnbull	11 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Turner of Ecchinswell	7 September 2005		Crossbench	Life peer	Chair of the Climate Change Committee and former chair of the Financial Services Authority
Lord Tyler	15 June 2005		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Tyler of Enfield	28 January 2011		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Chief executive of Relate
Lord Tyrie	12 June 2018		Non-affiliated	Life peer	Former MP for Chichester from 1997 to 2017
Baroness Uddin	18 July 1998		Non-affiliated	Life peer
Viscount Ullswater	28 March 2003		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Baroness Valentine	10 October 2005		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Vallance of Tummel	22 June 2004		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Vaux of Harrowden	11 August 2017		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Baroness Vere of Norbiton	30 August 2016		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Verjee	17 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Baroness Verma	2 June 2006		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Vinson	7 February 1985		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Wakeham	24 April 1992		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Waldegrave of North Hill	28 July 1999		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Walker of Aldringham	19 December 2006		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Chief of the Defence Staff
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe	1 October 2002		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Wallace of Saltaire	19 December 1995		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Emeritus professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, former director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Lord Wallace of Tankerness	17 October 2007		Liberal Democrat	Life peer	Her Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Baroness Walmsley	15 May 2000		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Warner	29 July 1998		Crossbench	Life peer
Baroness Warsi	11 October 2007		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe	10 July 1999		Labour	Life peer
Lord Wasserman	11 January 2011		Conservative	Life peer	Internationally recognised expert on management of police forces
Baroness Watkins of Tavistock	2 November 2015		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Watson of Invergowrie	6 November 1997		Labour	Life peer
Lord Watson of Richmond	23 July 1999		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Watts	23 October 2015		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015
Viscount Waverley	29 June 1990		Crossbench	Hereditary peer
Lord Wei	28 May 2010		Conservative	Life peer
Duke of Wellington	17 September 2015		Conservative	Hereditary peer
Lord West of Spithead	9 July 2007		Labour	Life peer	Former admiral
Baroness Wheatcroft	22 December 2010		Conservative	Life peer	Journalist and editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph
Baroness Wheeler	20 June 2010		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Whitaker	5 August 1999		Labour	Life peer
Lord Whitby	10 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Whitty	21 October 1996		Labour	Life peer	Former general secretary of the Labour Party
Lord Wigley	19 January 2011		Plaid Cymru	Life peer	Former leader of Plaid Cymru
Baroness Wilcox	16 January 1996		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Willetts	16 October 2015		Conservative	Life peer	Former MP for Havant from 1992 to 2015
Lord Williams of Elvel	22 May 1985		Labour	Life peer
Lord Williams of Oystermouth	8 January 2013[lower-alpha 4]		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Baroness Williams of Trafford	20 September 2013		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Willis of Knaresborough	18 June 2010		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Willoughby de Broke	9 July 1986		UK Independence	Hereditary peer
Lord Wills	10 July 2010		Labour	Life peer	Former MP for Swindon North 1997-2010
Lord Wilson of Dinton	18 November 2002		Crossbench	Life peer	Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Lord Wilson of Tillyorn	14 February 1992		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Winston	18 December 1995		Labour	Life peer	Professor of Science and Society and emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich	2 December 2014		Crossbench	Life peer	Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London
Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise	18 June 2010		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Wood of Anfield	15 January 2011		Labour	Life peer	Lecturer in politics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Nexus think-tank
Lord Woolf	1 October 1992		Crossbench	Law life peer	Former Law Lord and chairman of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, visiting professor of law at University College London
Lord Woolmer of Leeds	3 August 1999		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Worthington	31 January 2011		Crossbench	Life peer	Career focusing on promoting environmental and social change
Lord Wrigglesworth	5 September 2013		Liberal Democrat	Life peer
Lord Wright of Richmond	10 February 1994		Crossbench	Life peer	Former head of the Diplomatic Service
Baroness Wyld	22 June 2017		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Young of Cookham	29 September 2015		Conservative	Life peer
Lord Young of Graffham	10 October 1984		Conservative	Life peer
Baroness Young of Hornsey	22 June 2004		Crossbench	Life peer
Lord Young of Norwood Green	25 June 2004		Labour	Life peer
Baroness Young of Old Scone	4 November 1997		Labour	Life peer
Viscount Younger of Leckie	28 June 2010		Conservative	Hereditary peer

Note

Peers on leave of absence

Under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, peers may obtain a leave of absence for the remainder of a parliament.^[2] The following peers are currently on a leave of absence.^[3]

Peers temporarily disqualified

Under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, holders of certain judicial offices who are peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while in office.^[8] The following peers are currently subject to this provision.

Additionally, peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while serving as a Member of the European Parliament by virtue of sections 3 and 4 of the European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008.^[9] The following peer is currently subject to this regulation.

Resigned

Under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers may permanently retire or otherwise resign their membership of the House.^[11] The following peers have exercised that right since the Act came into force in August 2014 and are either still living or have died since October 2017:^[12]