Its costive deliberations were likened to those of the British courts of chancery mercilessly caricatured by Dickens in Bleak House.

He escaped custody and fled to the United States, where he successfully defeated legal attempts by the British authorities to have him extradited to face charges arising from the attack and the burning of the Valley House.

* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.

" This was farsighted, because when the House of Hanover ascended the British throne they would retain the territories that became the Kingdom of Hanover ( situated in modern-day Germany's Lower Saxony ).

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

With the House undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Henry argued in favor of mobilization.

* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

* 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 1923, he made it clear that he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British government's interpretation of the pledges which he, as foreign secretary, had caused to be given to Hussein in 1915.

The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.

In his speech to the House of Commons on the Inquiry, British Prime Minister David Cameron stated: " These are shocking conclusions to read and shocking words to have to say.

Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish politician who served in the British House of Commons and opposed the French Revolution, is credited as one of the founders of conservativism in Great Britain.

It is largely based on the British Westminster System, adopting many of its practices and precedents, but with a similar structure — House of Representatives, and Senate — to the U. S. Congress.

He holds a British peerage, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically-elected chamber.

In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron informed the British House of Commons that his proposals to reform the rules governing royal succession, a change which would require the approval of all Commonwealth realms, were to be discussed at the 28 – 30 October CHOGM in Perth.

* 1918 – Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

" A British House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee later issued a report that largely exonerated the scientists.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover — George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the United Kingdom — who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.

Other British companies contributed to a boom in horror film production in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, including Tigon-British and Amicus, the latter best known for their anthology films such as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors ( 1965 ).

Since 1714, the succession of the British monarchs of the houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Windsor ) has been due to their descent from James VI and I of the House of Stuart.

" Hannover " ( as it was spelled in the 1761 charter ) was named either after a local parish in Sprague, Connecticut, or after the House of Hanover in honor of the reigning British king, George III.

Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords.

* 1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.

Baronets are not peers of the realm, and did not sit in the House of Lords when it was a hereditary house, therefore like knights they remain commoners in the view of the British nobility system.

* 1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

The British House of Lords, as the court of last appeal outside Scotland before the creation of the UK Supreme Court, was not strictly bound to always follow its own decisions until the case London Street Tramways v London County Council AC 375.

* 20-Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.

* Lifetime appointees from successive Prime Ministers ( such as most members of the British House of Lords )

The Senate maintains the ability similar to that held by the British House of Lords, prior to the enactment of the Parliament Act 1911, to block supply against the government of the day.

* July 10 – The British House of Lords defeats the abolition of the death penalty.

* April 23 – Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

In a 2011 report on the late-2000s financial crisis, the British House of Lords bemoaned the demotion of prudence as a governing principle of accounting and audit.

* In some cases, a bicameral legislature may have an " upper house " that is not directly elected, such as the Canadian Senate, which was in turn modeled on the British House of Lords.

Lords Protector ) is a title that has been used in British constitutional law for heads of state.

* in Meiji Japan, Kōshaku ( 侯爵 ), a hereditary peerage ( Kazoku ) rank, was introduced in 1884, granting a hereditary seat in the upper house of the imperial diet just as a British peerage did ( until the House of Lords Act 1999 ), with the ranks usually rendered as baron, viscount, count, marquis and duke.

Contrary to British constitutional convention, the Conservatives used their large majority in the Lords to vote down the Budget.

The title of Laird may carry certain local or feudal rights, although unlike a Scottish Lordship of Parliament, a Lairdship has not always carried voting rights, either in the historic Parliament of Scotland or, after unification with the Kingdom of England, in the British House of Lords.

The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilisation of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series ' protagonist, the Doctor, is a member.

The bill was quickly approved by the House of Lords, and then also quickly approved by the British House of Commons.

As the leading proponent campaigning for Catholic Emancipation, he had been in London for the passage in its final legislative stages of the Emancipation Bill from the British House of Commons through to the House of Lords and thence into law.

Shortly afterward, he had to spend most of it on saving Duke from being a zombified slave, but had enough left over to buy a British title ( His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham ), which caused him to be called to England as a tie-breaker for a vote in the House of Lords over one of Margaret Thatcher's tax bills.