Derby's successor as Prime Minister was the Peelite Lord Aberdeen, whose ministry was composed of both Peelites and Whigs.

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

In 1858 he entered Lord Derby's government as Secretary of State for the Colonies, thus serving alongside his old friend Disraeli.

Between November 1858 and February 1859, Gladstone, on behalf of Lord Derby's government, was made Extraordinary Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands embarking via Vienna and Trieste on a twelve week mission to the southern Adriatic entrusted with complex challenges that had arisen in connection with the future of the British Protectorate of the Ionian islands.

* Lord Strange's Men ( later Derby's Men )

Lord Derby's subsidiary titles are Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster ( created 1832 ), and Baron Stanley of Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster ( 1886 ).

Both Lord Derby's sons succeeded to the earldom.

It brought down Lord Derby's Tory ministry and enabled the leader of the Peelites Lord Aberdeen and Whigs to form a coalition government.

Under a one-year contract, he first stood at Lord Derby's stud in England.

Lord Robert Cecil was first elected to the House of Commons in 1854 and served as Secretary of State for India in Lord Derby's Conservative government from 1866 until his resignation in 1867 over its introduction of Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill that extended the suffrage to working-class men.

**** Lord Derby's Scaly-tailed flying squirrel, Anomalurus derbianus

He was a member of Lord Derby's cabinet in 1852 as Postmaster General and as Lord Privy Seal between 1858 and 1859.

Disraeli's appreciation found an opportunity for displaying itself some years later, when in 1868 he invited him to be Lord Chancellor in the brief Conservative administration which followed Lord Derby's resignation of the party leadership.

In Lord Derby's first government in 1852 be became Lord Chancellor and was raised to the peerage as Baron St Leonards, of Slaugham in the County of Sussex.

He held his last ministerial office as Lord President of the Council, with a seat in the cabinet, in 1852, in the Earl of Derby's first administration.

He served as Lord Chancellor again in Derby's 1866 – 67 government.

Herries worked his way up in the Treasury and eventually became Secretary to the First Lord of the Treasury, Commissary-General to the Army, Paymaster of the Civil List, Secretary to the Treasury ( 1823 – 1827 ), Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Goderich's government ( 1827 – 1828 ), Master of the Mint under the Duke of Wellington ( 1828 – 1830 ), briefly President of the Board of Trade ( 1830 ), Secretary at War under Sir Robert Peel ( 1834 – 1835 ), and finally President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby's first government ( 1852 ).

Following the downfall of the Tory / Conservative minority government under Lord Derby in December 1852, Lord Aberdeen formed a new government from the coalition of Free Traders, Peelites and Whigs that had voted no confidence in the minority government.

The Zimbabwean Constitution, initially from the Lancaster House Agreement a few months before the 1980 elections, chaired by Lord Carrington, institutionalizes majority rule and protection of minority rights.

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG, ( c. 1500 – 22 January 1552 ) was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI ( 1547 – 1553 ), in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549.

In the end, Lord opted to stay in New Brunswick due to his young family and the fact that his departure would force his party into a minority government situation.

The resignation would have caused Lord to slip into a minority government and the subsequent by-election could have flipped the balance of power to the Liberals.

In 1660 he succeeded Herman Fleming as Lord High Treasurer, and was one of the council of regency appointed to govern Sweden during the minority of Charles XI of Sweden.

After the death of Charles X of Sweden in 1660, Brahe, as Lord High Steward, became one of the regents of Sweden for the second time ( he had held a similar office during the minority of Christina, 1632 – 1644 ), and during the difficult year 1660 he had entire control of both foreign and domestic affairs.

When Henry dies, Thomas's scheming brother Ned ( Guy Rolfe ) takes over as Lord Protector and guardian of King Edward VI ( Rex Thompson ) during his minority, overriding Henry's wish that Thomas raise the boy.

* Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England ( 1547-49 ), during the minority of his nephew, Edward VI of England

In 1620 he became Lord High Constable and, as such, he was later one of the five regents ruling Sweden during Queen Christina's minority ( 1632 – 44 ).

He remained Lord Privy Seal until 22 February 1924, when Ramsey MacDonald's minority Labour cabinet took office.

Bernard Lord announced on August 10, 2006 that an election would be held on September 18, 2006 due to the pending resignation of Peter Mesheau from the legislature that would have created another minority government.

Al Rubaie received international acclaim for his achievements in isolating Al Qai ' ida from the Sunni mainstream and bringing the Sunni community to the negotiating table with the Shia-led Government as well as his protection of Iraq's vulnerable Christian minority and was awarded the " The Annual Prize For Peace Making In The Middle East " at the House of Lords on 18 February 2009 presented by Lord Hylton of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.

Lord Halifax wrote in response to Vansittart's memo that " I am disposed to think but I know it is a minority view that M. Bonnet is not so black ( or so yellow ) as he is often painted ".

In 1546, he became Lord President of the Council, and in Henry's will, he was mentioned as one of the eighteen men who would serve as the council of regency during Henry's son's minority.

Lord Melbourne's second government came to power after Sir Robert Peel's minority government resigned in 1835.

After the collapse of Lord Palmerston's first government, the Tory leader Lord Derby again formed a minority government, with Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd who, as one of the Regents during the minority of Robert III of Scotland, took possession of the young king and married his son to the king's elder sister, for which crimes he was later attainted for high treason.

In late 1917, Montagu went to India to meet up with Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India, to meet with leaders of Indian community such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah to discuss the introduction of limited self-government to India and protecting the rights of minority communities such as Muslims and Sikhs.

Reformist hopes for the church were high under the boy king, Edward VI, whose uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, held the real reins of power as Lord Protector during Edward's minority.

Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.

An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).

Lord George Bentinck, Conservative leader in the commons 1846 – 48

Lord Palmerston's government collapsed in 1858 amid public fallout over the Orsini affair and Derby took office at the head of a purely ' Conservative ' administration.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

The conversion of the Conservative Party into a modern mass organisation was accelerated by the concept of Tory Democracy attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

In 1841, he left Parliament and didn't return to politics until 1852 ; this time, having differed from the policy of Lord John Russell over the Corn Laws, he stood for Hertfordshire as a Conservative.

Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

Lord Aberdeen as the leader of the Peelites was one of 38 Peelites elected to members of Parliament independently of the Tory / Conservative Party.

From the mid-century there were increasing calls for Home Rule for Scotland and when the Conservative Lord Salisbury became prime minister in 1885 he responded to pressure by reviving the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, which had been in abeyance since 1746.

Historians portray Conservative prime Minister Lord Salisbury ( 1830 – 1903 ) as a talented leader who was an icon of traditional, aristocratic conservatism.

The Conservative Leader Lord Derby became Prime Minister in 1858, but Gladstone – who like the other Peelites was still nominally a Conservative – declined a position in his government, opting not to sacrifice his free trade principles.

The Conservative Party had to replace Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare as their candidate when he was charged with perjury ; Steve Norris was elected as his replacement.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

" was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government.

In 1987 he was nominated in the election for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford but lost to Roy Jenkins as a result of splitting the Conservative vote with Lord Blake.

After the 1970 General Election, new Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath appointed Lord Jellicoe in Lord Shackleton's place.