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.

the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics, if the present system is still in operation, will constitute almost one-third of the House of Lords in the next generation '' ; ;

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

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

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.

In debates in the House of Lords, the archbishop is referred to as " The Most Reverend Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury ".

* 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.

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.

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.

As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.

There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.

It was at this time that a political battle over the so-called People's Budget resulted in the passage of an act ending the power of the House of Lords to block legislation.

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 ).

His son, the fourth Baron, held office in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

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.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Tim left Crowded House during the Woodface tour in November 1991, part-way through the UK leg.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

Lord Dunrossil ( as William Morrison ) was Speaker of the UK House of Commons.

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 ).

In April – May 2011 House of Pain attended the Groovin ' the Moo touring festival in Australia, and also performed at Scotland's T in the Park Festival on 9 July 2011, as well as Sonisphere UK Festival on 12 July of the same year.

Plymouth, UK: Northcote House.

House music, after enjoying significant underground and club-based success in Chicago from the early 1980s onwards, emerged into the UK mainstream pop market in the mid-to-late 80s.

* The History of House ( 2004 ) HouseKeeping: Funky House DJs from the UK

* House of Lords, the upper house of the UK parliament

In March 2009, the House of Lords Constitution Committee criticised UK government proposals in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill dealing with the Common Travel Area, concluding that " the policy-making process ... has not been informed by any real appreciation of the constitutional status of the Crown dependencies or the rights of free movement of Islanders ".

As a resident of Switzerland, in 2010 he stepped down from his seat in the House of Lords in order to maintain his non-domiciled status, and so be able to avoid paying UK residents ' taxes on income earned abroad.

* 2004, Moor House, London, UK

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.

Many of today's respected real ale micro-brewers in the UK started as home based Beer House brewers under the 1830 Act.

Furthermore, while the courts in the United Kingdom are undoubtedly amongst the most independent in the world, the Law Lords, who were the final arbiters of judicial disputes in the UK sat simultaneously in the House of Lords, the upper house of the legislature, although this arrangement ceased in 2009 when the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence.

The oldest full manuscript of the Talmud is from 1342, known as the Munich Talmud and was purchased in a hotly contested auction from New York based Christies by Tyndale House of the UK.

** MP Sydney Silverman's bill for the abolition of the death penalty in the UK passes the British House of Commons.

The French Institute of International Relations ( IFRI ) was founded in 1979 and is the third oldest think tank of western Europe, after the Chatam House ( UK, 1920 ) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( Sweden, 1960 ).

One of the most influential Spanish think tanks is the Elcano Royal Institute, created in 2001 following the example of the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) in the UK, although it is closely linked to ( and receives funding from ) the Socialist government in power.

In the UK, the opera was first presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 May 1894 with Arturo Pessina in the title role, while the US premiere was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 4 February 1895 with Victor Maurel as Falstaff.

* Forem, Jack ( 2012 ) Hay House UK Ltd, Transcendental Meditation: The Essential Teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ISBN 1848503792

The city and state parliament is the House of Representatives ( Abgeordnetenhaus ), which currently has 141 seats.

In a 1986 statement, he rejected " the legitimacy of an Army Council styling itself the Council of the Irish Republican Army which lends support to any person or organisation styling itself as Sinn Féin and prepared to enter the partition parliament of Leinster House.

They include the existence of a prime minister and Cabinet, the fact that the governor general is required to grant Royal Assent to bills adopted by both houses of parliament, and the requirement that the prime minister either resign or request a new general election upon losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, the new parliament, the Oireachtas, was located in Leinster House.

The Government of the Irish Free State rebuilt the city centre and located the new parliament, the Oireachtas, in Leinster House.

Although both it and Leinster House were intended to be temporary, they became the permanent homes of parliament from then on.

They are governed under the constitution of 1994. There is a bicameral parliament made of the 108-seat house of federation and the 547-seat House of Peoples Representatives.

This culminated in agitation in the House of Commons during the parliament of 1601.

It added 45 Scots to the 513 members of the House of Commons and 16 Scots to the 190 members of the House of Lords, and ended the Scottish parliament.

India's bicameral parliament consists of the Rajya Sabha ( Council of States ) and the Lok Sabha ( House of the People or Council of Ministers ).

On 21 January 1919, this new, unofficial parliament assembled in the Mansion House in Dublin.

The legislative power of the government is vested in a bicameral parliament called Tynwald ( said to be the world's oldest continuously existing parliament ), which consists of the directly elected House of Keys and the indirectly chosen Legislative Council.

The eldest, Tivadar Andrássy ( Theodore Andreas ) ( born 10 July 1857 ), was elected vice-president of the Lower House of the Hungarian parliament in 1890.

* House of Keys, the directly elected lower branch of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man

The bicameral parliament consists of the lower house, the House of Representatives or Dewan Rakyat ( literally the " Chamber of the People ") and the upper house, the Senate or Dewan Negara ( literally the " Chamber of the Nation ").

Executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister ; the Malaysian constitution stipulates that the prime minister must be a member of the Lower House of parliament who, in the opinion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( YDPA ), commands a majority in parliament.

In 1977, he had remained in the House of Commons, with Dennis Skinner, while other MPs walked to the Lords to hear the Queen's speech opening the new parliament.

* 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.

* During the second parliament, three parties ( Free Trade, Protectionist and Labor ) had roughly equal representation in the House of Representatives.

Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of Representatives, Kerr appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister, conditional on the passage of the Whitlam government's Supply bills through the Senate and the calling of an election for both houses of parliament.