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In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Until 1999, all members
Scottish representative peers were chosen in the Palace of Holyroodhouse
The Chamber of the Irish House of Lords in Parliament House on College Green in Dublin was the location of the first election of Irish representative peers.
The Most Rev. the Earl of Normanton, Lord Archbishop of Dublin, one of the first 28 Irish representative peers
The January 1908 Irish representative peer election was held to fill a vacancy among the 28 Irish representative peers at that time elected to the British House of Lords. Conducted by post, with ballo
Representative peer
…drawn up in 1800 were amended in 1857. Successive governments tried to prevent the election of absentee landlords. An exception was Lord Curzon, who won election as a representative peer in 1908, despite never having claimed the right to be an elector; he had been refused a peerage of the United Kingdom by the Liberal government of the day. The…
Lord Ashtown 2
Lord Farnham
The name of Lord Ashtown is drawn to win the November 1908 election.