This is a list of sitting
Members of the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
House of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". Parliament comprises the Sovereign, the House of Commons , and the Lords...
who were born, live or lived in
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
.
This list does not include hereditary peers who have lost their seat in the Lords following the
House of Lords Act 1999The House of Lords Act 1999 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. It was a major constitutional enactment that greatly reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. For centuries, the House of Lords had included...
, or those in the
Peerage of IrelandThe Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. This practice ended with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922...
, who have never had an automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords at Westminster.
Note: There is no such thing as the
Peerage of Northern Ireland and peers do not represent geographic areas as such.
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This is a list of sitting
Members of the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
House of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". Parliament comprises the Sovereign, the House of Commons , and the Lords...
who were born, live or lived in
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
.
This list does not include hereditary peers who have lost their seat in the Lords following the
House of Lords Act 1999The House of Lords Act 1999 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. It was a major constitutional enactment that greatly reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. For centuries, the House of Lords had included...
, or those in the
Peerage of IrelandThe Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. This practice ended with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922...
, who have never had an automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords at Westminster.
Note: There is no such thing as the
Peerage of Northern Ireland and peers do not represent geographic areas as such. Some do, however, choose titles which reflect geographical localities, e.g. Lord Kilclooney, this is, however, entirely nominal.
Listed in order of surname, not title
Current members
- John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice
John Thomas Alderdice, Baron Alderdice of Knock is a Northern Ireland politician. He was Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1998-2004, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and sits in the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat.Alderdice was born to the Rev. David Alderdice and...
, former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern IrelandThe Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a political party in Northern Ireland. It has long sought to bridge the gap between the province's two main communities and is avowedly non-sectarian, being relatively moderate on matters concerning Unionism over Irish nationalism, and on religious matters...
and first Speaker of the Northern Ireland AssemblyThe Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly is the presiding officer of the Northern Ireland Assembly, elected on a cross-community vote by the Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Three Deputy Speakers are elected to help fulfil the role....
, now Liberal DemocratThe Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Liberals, are a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had been in alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of...
- Paul Bew, Baron Bew, professor at Queen's University Belfast
- May Blood, Baroness Blood
May Blood, Baroness Blood of Blackwatertown MBE is a Labour member of the British House of Lords.Blood was born and raised in Belfast and worked in a linen mill from 1952-90 where she soon became an active member of the trade union and a shop steward. She was involved in creating the women's...
, member of the Labour PartyThe Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...
- Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, (representative peer
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...
), landowner and a Lord-in-WaitingMost Lords in Waiting are Government whips in the House of Lords who are members of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom...
to The QueenElizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,...
, is the grandson of a former Prime Minister of Northern IrelandThe Prime Minister of Northern Ireland was the de facto head of the Government of Northern Ireland. No such office was provided for in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. However the Lord Lieutenant, as with Governors-General in other Westminster Systems such as in Canada, chose to appoint someone...
and son of an Ulster UnionistThe Ulster Unionist Party is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
MP.
- Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont
Wallace Hamilton Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont is a Northern Irish politician in the Democratic Unionist Party.He was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2005-06, and it was announced on 11 April 2006 that he would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created a life peer, giving the party its...
, former Lord Mayor of BelfastThe Lord Mayor of Belfast is a ceremonial position held by a member of Belfast City Council and annually elected by that council.The post originated in 1613 as the Sovereign of Belfast. In 1842, this position was restyled the Mayor of Belfast, and in 1892, it was given Lord Mayor status...
, member of Democratic Unionist PartyThe Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...
- Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell
Robert Douglas Carswell, Baron Carswell, PC, QC , is a retired Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.The son of Alan and Nance Carswell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in classics and law in 1956...
, former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern IrelandThe Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is the head of the judiciary in Northern Ireland, presiding over the Courts of Northern Ireland. The present Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is Sir Declan Morgan...
- Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran
Major Thomas "Robin" Valerian Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran CBE is a former British bobsledder and Northern Irish politician, known before 1995 as Robin Dixon...
, (representative peerIn 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...
), member of the Conservative PartyThe Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom...
- Robin Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames OM, PhD, DD
Robin Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames, OM was the Anglican Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.-Education:...
, retired Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)The Anglican Archbishop of Armagh is the ecclesiastical head of the Church of Ireland, the metropolitan of the Province of Armagh and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Armagh....
- Dr. Edward Enda Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond OBE
Edward Enda Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, OBE is an entrepreneur and politician. With an estimated personal wealth of £350m, he is the 2nd richest person in Northern Ireland, 7th richest in Ireland and the 174th richest person in the United Kingdom.-Biography:Edward Haughey was born in Kilcurry,...
, businessman and member of Ulster Unionist PartyThe Ulster Unionist Party is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
- Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton
James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton QC, PC , is a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.- Background :...
, former Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- John Laird, Baron Laird
John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird of Artigarvan is an Ulster Unionist life peer and former chairman of the cross-border Ulster-Scots Agency.-Career:...
, former chairman of the Ulster-Scots AgencyThe Ulster-Scots Agency is a cross-border body set up in Ireland to promote the Ulster dialect of Scots and its attendant culture.- Overview :...
and former Stormont-Peerages:* Viscount of Stormont is a title in the Peerage of Scotland; it was created in 1621 by James VI for Sir David Murray who had saved him from the attack of Earl Gowrie in 1600.-People:* Lord Stormont was British ambassador to France in the 18th century....
MPA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators. Members of...
for the Ulster Unionist Party
- Kenneth Wiggins Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass
Kenneth Wiggins Maginnis, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist politician who sits in the House of Lords.-Background:...
, former Ulster Unionist Party MP
- Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney, former Secretary of State for Transport
The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. The role has had a high turnover as new appointments are blamed for the failures of decades of their predecessors...
and former Chairman of the Conservative PartyIn the United Kingdom, the Chairman of the Conservative Party is responsible for running the party machine, overseeing Conservative Central Office. When the Conservatives are in power, the Chairman is usually a member of the Cabinet being given a sinecure position such as Minister without Portfolio...
- James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC
James Henry Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, KBE, PC is a Northern Irish Unionist politician and was leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1979 to 1995. He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative Monday Club...
, former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Maurice Morrow, Baron Morrow
Maurice George Morrow, Baron Morrow is a Northern Irish unionist politician. He is one of two Democratic Unionist MLAs for Fermanagh and South Tyrone alongside Arlene Foster, and was made a life peer in June 2006...
, member of the Democratic Unionist Party
- Nuala O'Loan
Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, DBE is a noted public figure in Northern Ireland. She was the first Police Ombudsman in the country between 1999 and 2007. In July 2009 it was announced that she was to be appointed to the House of Lords...
, former Police Ombudsman
- Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CBE PBA FMedSci FRS FAAAS MRIA is a crossbench member of the House of Lords....
, academic and President of the British AcademyThe British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars...
- Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's
Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's is a Northern Irish Unionist politician, a vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, and the wife of Ian Paisley, Leader of the DUP. She became a life peer in 2006.Eileen Cassells married Ian Richard Kyle Paisley on 13 October 1956...
, vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party
- Diljit Rana, Baron Rana
Diljit Singh Rana, Baron Rana is a British politician and member of the House of Lords.In June 2004, he was created a life peer as Baron Rana, of Malone in the County of Antrim.-Life:...
, Indian-born Belfast businessman, sits as a Cross-bencherIn certain legislative assemblies, especially those which are based on the Westminster system, a crossbencher is a member of the assembly who is a member of neither the governing parties nor the official Opposition.-United Kingdom:...
- Dennis Rogan, Baron Rogan, member of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton
Professor Sir Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton is a British politician who is currently the Liberal Democrat spokesman in the House of Lords on Northern Ireland and constitutional affairs...
, Liberal Democrat spokesman on Northern Ireland
- Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg
Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg is a British life peer, businessman and multi-millionaire from Northern Ireland.Steinberg is the founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Stanley Leisure Ltd...
, businessman and member of the Conservative Party
- John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney
John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC , is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.-Career & family:...
, businessman and former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- David Trimble, Baron Trimble, former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, now Conservative
Deceased members
- William Blease, Baron Blease
William John Blease, Baron Blease JP was a British politician.Blease, the son of William John Blease and Sarah Watts, was educated at McClure Public Elementary School and Belfast Technical College, the National Council Labour Colleges and then the Workers' Educational Association.Blease worked...
, trade unionist and member of the Labour Party
- Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC, HML was an Ulster Unionist politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1943 and held office until 1963....
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, PC
John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, PC was a Northern Ireland politician, the son of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, the 1st Viscount Brookeborough, who succeeded his father as the Ulster Unionist Stormont MP for Lisnaskea in a by-election on March 22 1968...
, Stormont MP Ulster Unionist Party
- James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Victor Alexander Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh
Victor Alexander Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, OBE, DL was a politician in Northern Ireland.The son of Victor and Alice Cooke, he was educated in Marlborough College and graduated from Trinity College in Cambridge with a Master of Arts in mechanical science...
, former Ulster Unionist Senator in the Parliament of Northern Ireland
- James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon Bt
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon PC was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran
Daniel Stewart Thomas Bingham Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran KBE was a Northern Ireland soldier and politician....
, Ulster Unionist member of Northern Ireland House of Commons
- Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran
Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran OBE PC was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician.He was born in Belfast, the fourth son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, being commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, with which regiment he served in the Second...
, Ulster Unionist member of Northern Ireland House of Commons
- Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster
Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster DSO TD JP DL was the son of Captain Lord Hugh William Grosvenor and Lady Mabel Chricton and a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. He was, between 1955 and 1964, an Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for the Northern Irish...
, Ulster Unionist member of British House of Commons
- Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick
Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, PC was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from March 1971 until his resignation in March 1972...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Chief Executive of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt
Gerard "Gerry" Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:...
, founder leader of the Social Democratic and Labour PartyThe Social Democratic and Labour Party is one of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its rival Sinn...
- Georgiana Maxwell, 27th Baroness de Ros
Georgiana Angela Maxwell, 27th Baroness de Ros succeeded her grandmother Una Ross after the title was called out of abeyance in her favor in 1958....
- suo jureSuo jure is a Latin phrase meaning "in her [or his] own right".It is commonly encountered in the context of titles of nobility, especially in cases where a wife may hold a title in her own right rather than through her marriage.-Notable suo jure titles:...
peeress
- James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn
James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton . He was the son of James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham...
- served in the Senate of Northern IrelandThe Senate of Northern Ireland was the upper house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was abolished with the passing of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.-Powers:...
and at the House of Lords.
- Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry
Sir Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry PC , often known as Robbie Lowry, was a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary....
- Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1971-1988.
- John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott
John Clarke MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, MC PC was a Northern Irish politician and lawyer who was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1951 to 1971....
- Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1951-1971.
- Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell
Robert William Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell was an Ulster Unionist MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons....
, Ulster Unionist Stormont MP. Life peer (1995-2000)
- Charles Mulholland, 4th Baron Dunleath
Charles Edward Henry John Mulholland was a politician in Northern Ireland.Mulholland studied at Eton College and the University of Cambridge. Mulholland succeeded as Baron Dunleath in 1956 and entered the House of Lords....
- Alliance Party Stormont MP
- Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan
Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.He served as a Major in the British Army...
, Ulster Unionist Westminster and Stormont MP
- Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan
Phelim Robert Hugh O’Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan , was a politician in Northern Ireland and a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords....
, Ulster Unionist Westminster and Stormont MP, later Alliance Party
- Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.-Background:Terence O'Neill was born on the 10 September 1914 at 29 Ennismore Gardens, Hyde Park, London...
, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.
See also
- Edward Carson, Baron Carson
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC, Pc , Kt., QC , often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson, was an Irish and British barrister, judge and politician...
- Irish Unionist politician and British Lord of Appeal in OrdinaryLords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in order to exercise its judicial functions, which included acting as the highest court of appeal for most domestic matters...
, originally from DublinDublin is the largest city and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath ; the English name comes from the Irish Dubh Linn meaning "black pool". It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the...
.
- Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland
- General demographics :PopulationThe population of Northern Ireland has increased annually since 1978.Place of birth*UK:**Northern Ireland: 1,534,268 **England: 61,609 **Scotland: 16,772 **Wales: 3,008...
- List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council