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.
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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
Living former members
- The Baroness Blood Trade unionist and women's campaigner[3]
- The Lord Glentoran, elected hereditary peer, son and grandson of Ulster Unionist Stormont MPs[4]
- The Baroness Paisley of St. George's, Vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, widow of Lord Bannside[5]
- The Lord Smith of Clifton, Liberal Democrat spokesman on Northern Ireland[6]
- The Lord Carswell, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Law Lord[7]
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 Hutton, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Law Lord
- The Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Law Lord
- The Lord Laird, chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency and 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.
- The Lord Mawhinney, Conservative Cabinet minister
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.
- 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.
- Lord Smith of Clifton resigned from the House of Lords under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 31 January 2019.
- Lord Carswell resigned from the House of Lords under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 on 20 October 2019.
See also
- Edward Carson, Baron Carson - Irish Unionist politician and British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, originally from Dublin.
- Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland
- List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council
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