life peeress

As his wife was made a life peeress, they were one of the few couples who both held titles in their own right.

Some women other than life peeresses hold hereditary or life peerages in their own right.

She is the only Australian-born life peeress, and was the last recipient of a peerage with reference to a place in Australia.

Women remained excluded from the House of Lords until 1958, when life peeresses were admitted to the House.

The daughter, Violet (1887-1969), became a Liberal politician and a Life Peeress in her own right in 1964.

Hunt was elected at the 2005 general election, after Virginia Bottomley was created a life peeress.

Her mother is the daughter of the Conservative politician the 1st Viscount Davidson and the life peeress Baroness Northchurch.

Lord Hailsham is the husband of Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg, a life peeress in her own right.

However, Sir Denis Thatcher's wife was created a life peeress as Baroness Thatcher in her own right in 1992 after her retirement from the House of Commons.

Hence, the Baroness Thatcher, a suo jure life peeress, was referred to as either "Baroness Thatcher" or "Lady Thatcher".

His only daughter by his first wife, Violet (later Violet Bonham Carter), became a well-regarded writer and a life peeress (as Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury in her own right).

This distinguishes life peeresses from the handful of hereditary baronies that descend through the female as well as through the male line, and whose holders (when female) are always described as "Lady Smith".

On Monday mornings, the 85-year-old Baroness Elliot of Harwood, a life peeress, drives from her Scottish farm to Newcastle Airport and flies to London, returning by sleeper Thursday nights.

His niece Trixie Gardner became a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom and is the only Australian woman made a life peeress of the UK parliament, as Baroness Gardner of Parkes.

However, their daughter Audrey Clifton Brown married Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons, and was created a life peeress as Baroness Hylton-Foster in honour of her husband in 1965.

Stella Isaacs was later made a life peeress as Baroness Swanborough, of Swanborough, County Sussex, and later a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE).

With wife Glenys a life peeress and Labour spokesman in the Lords, son Stephen a major player at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and now Stephen's missus Denmark's premier-elect, what a fearsome dynasty we see forming in embryo here.

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, GBE, CStJ (née Hozier; 1 April 1885 - 12 December 1977) was the wife of Sir Winston Churchill and a life peeress in her own right.

Trixie Gardner (born 1927), dentist and Conservative politician, was made a life peeress as "Baroness Gardner of Parkes in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia, and of Southgate in Greater London", on 19 June 1981.

In 1974 he married the Hon. (Priscilla) Susan Buchan, a granddaughter of the politician and novelist John Buchan, and daughter of Johnnie Buchan, the 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, and his wife, a life peeress in her own right, Lady Tweedsmuir.