In 1872, Queensberry was chosen by the Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords as a representative peer.

Many of the original settlers were immigrants from Ireland and Scotland, and it is said that the town was named in honor of Lord Coleraine, an Irish peer.

David John Maclean, Baron Blencathra ( born 16 May 1953, Scotland ) is a Conservative Party life peer.

* James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn ( died 1630 ), Scottish peer and member of the Privy Council of Scotland

In 1711, James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, a peer of Scotland, was made Duke of Brandon in the Peerage of Great Britain.

When he sought to sit in the House of Lords, he was denied admittance, the Lords ruling that a peer of Scotland could not sit in the House of Lords unless he was a representative peer, even if he also held a British peerage dignity.

No provision was made for Lords of Parliament to be specially represented in the current Scottish Parliament, but the Scotland Act 1998 provides that a person is not disqualified from membership of the Parliament merely because he is a peer ( whether of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England or Scotland ).

In 1967 he was awarded a peerage, becoming Lord MacLeod of Fuinary – the only Church of Scotland minister to have been thus honoured, and he later became the first peer to represent the Green Party.

James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose ( born 6 April 1935 ), known as Earl of Kincardine until 1954 and Marquess of Graham between 1954 and 1992, is a Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland and a British Conservative Party politician.

They are said to have taken their name from a saying by King Alexander II of Scotland to one of the Earls of Lennox, after a battle, that Lennox had “ na peer ” ( no equal ).

James Robert Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, PC, QC ( born 25 August 1954 ), is a British politician, currently a life peer in the House of Lords and the Advocate General for Scotland.

In 1979, Mackay was appointed Lord Advocate, the senior law officer in Scotland, and was created a life peer as Baron Mackay of Clashfern, of Eddrachillis in the District of Sutherland, taking his territorial designation from his father's birthplace, a cottage beside Loch na Claise Fearna.

Being, as the eldest son of a Scots peer, ineligible for a seat in Scotland, he was provided with an English seat in 1802 ‘ under the peculiar protection of Mr Pitt ’, by Pitt ’ s sister ’ s father-in-law, Lord Eliot.

James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale KT PC ( 26 January 1759 – 10 September 1839 ) was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords.

From 1789, in the House of Lords, where he was a representative peer for Scotland, he was prominent as an opponent of the policy of William Pitt the Younger and the English government with regard to France.

* Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, a Labour Party life peer

He was a Scottish representative peer in four parliaments, president of the Board of Trade and manufactures, and lord-lieutenant of the eight northern counties of Scotland.

John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl ( 19 January 1929 – 15 May 2012 ) was a South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland, hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Murray, and Colonel-in-Chief of the Atholl Highlanders.

* James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn, Scottish peer and member of the Privy Council of Scotland

* James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale ( 1759 – 1839 ), representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords

* Lord Shortcake: absent-minded peer obsessed by his enormous collection of goldfish.

As a new peer he then styled himself as " Francis, Lord Verulam ".

Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).

In December 1805 Lord Aberdeen took his seat as a Tory Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords.

The English-educated Scottish peer Lord Aberdeen ( 1784 – 1860 ) led a coalition government from 1852-5, but in general very few Scots held office in the government.

The procedure used to be that the Lord Chancellor presided ( or the Lord High Steward if the defendant was a peer ).

If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a " Court of the Lord High Steward " instead of the House of Lords ( even if the defendant is not a peer ).

Jardine, who had good relations with Lord Napier, a Scottish peer, and his family, then took the initiative to use the debacle as an opportunity to convince the British government to use force to further open trade.

The King was annoyed that his efforts to urge passage of the budget had become public knowledge and had forbidden his adviser Lord Knollys, who was an active Liberal peer, from voting for the budget, although Knollys had suggested that this would be a suitable gesture to indicate royal desire to see the Budget pass.

In speech, any peer or peeress except a Duke or Duchess is referred to as Lord X or Lady X.

A peer is referred to by his peerage even if it is the same as his surname, thus the Baron Owen is " Lord Owen " not " Lord David Owen ", though such incorrect forms are commonly used.

The first peer to be created by patent was Lord Beauchamp of Holt in the reign of Richard II.

The chairman of the House of Commons education committee, Barry Sheerman, sits on its board of governors, along with Labour peer Lord ( Frank ) Judd.

Curzon wrote to Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space – Kitchener commented on the pettiness of this ( Curzon simply signed himself " Curzon " as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

However, only the Duke of Norfolk is actually a peer ; his son Lord Arundel and his hypothetical grandson Lord Maltravers remain commoners.

If a peer of the rank of Earl or above does not have any subsidiary titles of a name different from his main title, his eldest son usually uses an invented courtesy title of " Lord Surname ".

The eldest son of the Earl of Huntingdon, who has no subsidiary titles, is styled Viscount Hastings to avoid confusion with the substantive peer Lord Hastings.

The last trial of a peer in the House of Lords was in 1935, when Lord de Clifford was tried for motor manslaughter.

The Lord High Steward presided over the House of Lords in trials of peers, and also in impeachment trials when a peer was tried for high treason ; otherwise, the Lord High Chancellor presided.

Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey book, Clouds of Witness, depicts trial of a peer ( Wimsey's brother ) by the House of Lords.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 12 April 155024 June 1604 ) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.

The young peer was styled Viscount Bulbeck and raised in the Protestant Reformed Faith.

Hugh Buggy noted in The Argus: " It was the wettest season for twenty two years and Coleman showed that since the war he was without peer in the art of goal kicking.

Verifying the volume describing the unavoidable configuration set itself was done by peer review over a period of several years.

Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their " Verwandtschaftseinheiten " (" affinity units ", now called " valences " or " bonds "), was based largely on evidence from chemical reactions, rather than on instrumental methods that could peer directly into the molecule, such as X-ray crystallography.

Returning home he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen ( 1814 ), and made a member of the Privy Council.

He wired Carnarvon to come, and on 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carnarvon's daughter, and others in attendance, Carter made the " tiny breach in the top left hand corner " of the doorway, and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place.

In 1999, he was created a life peer, as Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester.

At the end of October, it was announced that he would become a member of the House of Lords ( intending to be a working peer ), when he was able to leave his EU responsibilities.

When she was made a life peer in 2009, they became one of the few couples to both hold titles in their own right.

The last Prime Minister who was a peer was Baron Kijuro Shidehara, who served as Prime Minister from October 1945 to May 1946.

Smalltalk-80 was the first language variant made available outside of PARC, first as Smalltalk-80 Version 1, given to a small number of firms ( Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Tektronix, and DEC ) and universities ( UC Berkeley ) for " peer review " and implementation on their platforms.

After some weeks ' negotiation, in the course of which the firmness and moderation of " The Great Commoner ", as he had come to be called, contrasted favourably with the characteristic tortuosities of the crafty peer, matters were settled on such a basis that, while Newcastle was the nominal, Pitt was the virtual head of the government.

Typically, individuals appointed as federal viceroy were already a peer, either by inheriting the title, such as the Duke of Devonshire, or by prior elevation by the sovereign in their own right, as was the case with the Viscount Alexander of Tunis.

If the route was learned from an external peer the per-neighbor BGP process computes a LOCAL_PREFERENCE value from local policy rules and then compares the LOCAL_PREFERENCE of all routes from the neighbor.

* Renfrew was created a life peer in 1991 as Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, of Hurlet in the District of Renfrew.