Labour will table another bill in 2007 proposing the total abolition of the peerage, making the upper house an all-appointed chamber. |
As a reward for taking defeat with dignity he was awarded a peerage, becoming Lord Watson of Invergowrie. |
In September 1945 he was raised to the peerage, and retired the following March. |
The next thing you know, Michael Forsyth will be jacking in his peerage, and trying to get Stirling back. |
The spiritual peerage consists of the archbishops and diocesan bishops of the Church of England. |
That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage. |