life peer

Thus many life peers are former members of the Commons.

All of these individuals went on to be nominated as and created life peers.

Another ten were created life peers to enable them to remain in the House.

High judicial officers have sometimes been created life peers upon taking office.

Most new appointments of life peers fall into this category.

The first step would be to confine voting to life peers.

Only 5 peers did so, and all were life peers.

Bannerman was one of three Liberals to be made life peers at this time.

The number of Life Peers then gradually increased, though not at a constant rate.

Since he came to power in 1997, he has appointed 248 life peers - men and women whose titles cannot be passed on.