How To Use life peer In A Sentence
- In 1958 the Life Peerages Act created non-hereditary peerages which would be granted to a person (male or female) for the term of their life.
- He is a life peer and should be in it till death. Times, Sunday Times
- The Act made it possible for a woman to be created a life peer.
- There is no mechanism for those who are chosen for life peerages to give up the role. Times, Sunday Times
- Lord Swan was made a life peer in 1981.
- Twenty minutes later I’d heard a detailed, if rushed, explanation of everything from the meaning of writs patent to the coup enacted by Margaret Thatcher when she managed to secure the title of baronet for her husband, thus ensuring a hereditary aristocratic status for her descendants prime ministers are traditionally granted life peerages, which are not hereditary. Shaking the Family Tree
- The Life Peerage Act made it possible for people to be given a peerage during their own lifetime without the title passing to their heirs; they were life peers.
- The committee proposes a two-tier system for new life peers in which some would be given no right to attend proceedings in the Lords. Times, Sunday Times
- In 1999 his charity work gained him a knighthood to add to his life peerage from Margaret Thatcher.
- Non-hereditary peers have been created since the Life Peerage Act of 1958; they tend to be more active members of the Lords than many hereditary peers.
