** " Lords of Misrule "

* The Lords of Misrule ( c )

Lords of Misrule, 1388-1396.

Fred was made a life peer in 1976, and served as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal.

Page won the seat of South West Hertfordshire in a by-election in 1979, having previously been MP for Workington from the by-election caused by the elevation of Fred Peart to the House of Lords in 1976 until losing the seat in the 1979 general election.

His son, the sixth Earl, was a Major-General in the Army and served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1976 to 1989.

His eldest son, the second Baron, was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and Chairman of Committees from 1963 to 1976. the title is held by the latter's son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1976.

On 23 September 1976, Peart was created a life peer as Baron Peart, of Workington in the County of Cumbria, to serve as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal at a time when the Labour faction in the Lords was tiny compared to the vast Tory majority, mainly composed of hereditary peers.

Between 1976 and 1992, he served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, ( Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords ).

Traditionally, the constituency has supported the Labour Party, although a by-election in 1976 ( forced by the elevation of Fred Peart to the House of Lords ) was won by Richard Page of the Conservatives.

He took his seat as a Conservative member of the Lords shortly following the return to power of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and served as an opposition spokesman and whip from 1976, his tenure ending upon the victory and accession to power of Margaret Thatcher.

With the death of his father, he became the 7th Baron Camoys as well a member of the House of Lords on 8 March 1976.

As a member of the House of Lords, he played a leading role in campaigning for the Race Relations Act 1976.

He succeeded in the viscountcy following his father's death in 1976 and originally sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords until 1999, when he and most other hereditary peers were removed from the House under the House of Lords Act 1999.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

The new approach did not secure immediate approval, but it was endorsed by the House of Lords in Quin & Axtens v Salmon AC 442 and has since received general acceptance.

In Regal ( Hastings ) Ltd v Gulliver All ER 378 the House of Lords, in upholding what was regarded as a wholly unmeritorious claim by the shareholders, held that:

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

A Resolution under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919, directing that the Measure should be presented to His Majesty, was passed in the House of Lords by a large majority.

From 1966 to 2009, this power lay with the House of Lords, granted by the Practice Statement of 1966.

Despite initial activity in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

In Connelly v DPP ( AC 1254 ), the Law Lords ruled that a defendant could not be tried for any offence arising out of substantially the same set of facts relied upon in a previous charge of which he had been acquitted, unless there are " special circumstances " proven by the prosecution.

" Definitions such as that offered by the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics take this path, where euthanasia is defined as " a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering.

The First Home Rule Bill of 1886 was defeated in the House of Commons, while the Second Home Rule Bill of 1893 was passed by the Commons but rejected by the House of Lords.

This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

Many of the extras were recruited by Amber Rudd who is described in the credits as " Aristocracy Co-ordinator "— among those used were Lords Burlington and Woolton.

A plot to murder Darnley is later planned and carried out by Lord Bothwell ( Nigel Davenport ), Mary's illegitimate half-brother Lord Moray ( Patrick McGoohan ), and the various Scottish Lords who participated in the murder of Rizzio ( Huntly, Morton, Falconside, and others ).

Nigel had a son, Roger, surnamed Mowbray, from whom, from the middle of the 12th century the de Ardens, became the Lords of the Manor.

Count Tolstoy insisted on being sued alongside Watts and, despite two efforts by Aldington to avoid this, fought the issue hard with the support of some senior members of the Conservative Party, including the Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne, and international public figures ranging from Nigel Nicolson and Graham Greene to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

* The adoption of those recommendations of the recent House of Lords enquiry into Science and Heritage which have a potential impact on the future of museums.

Abergavenny grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny.

The Board of Admiralty consisted of a number of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

The Lords Commissioners were always a mixture of admirals, known as Naval Lords or Sea Lords, and Civil Lords, normally politicians.

The colours indicate departments or residences for the several Lords of the Admiralty.

It contained a board room, other state rooms and offices and apartments for the Lords of the Admiralty.

* Malcolm H. Murfett, The First Sea Lords: From Fisher to Mountbatten ( Westport: Praeger, 1995 ).

Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

" Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli " was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded.

In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.

Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

* Goodwin, Jason ( 1998 ) Lords of the Horizons.