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.

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

* List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

The Lords Commissioners present were the Earls of Suffolk, Worcester, Northampton, Devonshire, and Salisbury.

As a result of a report written by Newton on 21 September 1717 to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury the bimetallic relationship between gold coins and silver coins was changed by

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is now always Second Lord of the Treasury as one of the Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer.

* Adie v Fennilitteau ( 1 Cox, 24 ) by the Lords Commissioners Lord Loughborough, Ashhurst, and Hotham, in April 1783, a trustee laid out trust money in South Sea annuities ; they afterwards fell in their price, and though it was in the same fund in which the greatest part of the testator's personal estate was at his death invested, their Lordships held it to be an improper investment ; and that the trustee should abide the loss.

The border was settled in 1757 by the Lords Commissioners of Trade in London.

The men were indicted on 27 January 1605 and tried by the Lords Commissioners.

In the United Kingdom, for instance, the Sovereign may appoint Lords Commissioners, who announce that the Royal Assent has been granted at a ceremony held at the Palace of Westminster.

Officially, Assent is granted by the Sovereign or by Lords Commissioners authorised to act by letters patent.

The Lords Commissioners, as the Sovereign's representatives are known, wear scarlet Parliamentary Robes and sit on a bench between the Throne and the Woolsack, with the Speaker and the Commons attending at the Bar of the Lords.

Having taken his seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1745, he was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in 1746, and was one of the ' managers ' of the impeachment of Lord Lovat.

The House of Lords obstructed the passage of the Improvement Bill but in 1828 a Bill was enacted providing for supervision by Metropolitan Commissioners.

* The Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ( the former Board of Admiralty )

# Redirect Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

* List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Furthermore, the office of Lord Chancellor may be exercised by a committee of individuals known as " Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal ", usually when there is a delay between an outgoing Chancellor and his replacement.

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.

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.

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.

The wastes of Gallifrey include the Death Zone, an area that was used as a gladiatorial arena by the first Time Lords, pitting various species kidnapped from their respective time zones against each other ( although Daleks and Cybermen were considered too dangerous to use ).

In the last regular Eighth Doctor novel, The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, it is revealed that while Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords were not erased from history.

Although required by the tenets of constitutional monarchy to be non-partisan while in office, governors were frequently former politicians, many being members of the House of Lords by virtue of their peerage.

Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited on spikes outside the House of Lords.

The power of the explosion was such that the deep concrete walls ( replicating how archives suggest the walls of the old House of Lords were constructed ) were reduced to rubble.

there were the sales of linen and cattle to England, the cash flows from military service, and the tobacco trade that was dominated by Glasgow Tobacco Lords after 1740.

This transition did little to relieve the islands of internecine strife although by the early 14th century the MacDonald Lords of the Isles, based on Islay, were in theory these chiefs ' feudal superiors and managed to exert some control.

Judges at the House of Lords secured their position by mere virtue of the fact that their fathers were hereditary peers and so individuals would automatically inherit seats in the upper house rather than securing their position through merit.

Thus, Queen Victoria and subsequent monarchs were able to appoint leading lawyers to adjudicate in the House of Lords by making them life peers.

While it is not clear from the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae that Arthur was even considered a king, by the time Culhwch and Olwen and the Triads were written he had become Penteyrnedd yr Ynys hon, " Chief of the Lords of this Island ", the overlord of Wales, Cornwall and the North.

A section to create an offence of " gross indecency " between females was added to a bill in the United Kingdom House of Commons and passed there in 1921, but was rejected in the House Of Lords, apparently because they were concerned any attention paid to sexual misconduct would also promote it.

Furthermore, the Lords were opposed to the severity of the sentence of death imposed upon Strafford.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

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.

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.

* In " The Sound of Drums ", the Doctor states that Time Lords can " always " recognise each other, although, while on Earth, the Master used satellites with a telepathic network to mask his presence from the Doctor.

From that time on he always sent me a Christmas card which was signed ' To Robin Hood from the Ancient Briton '" — Lord Crawshaw, House of Lords Hansard, Tuesday 8 July 1997

However, the role of the Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a political appointment — the Captain is always the government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords.

The Leader of the House of Lords is necessarily a member of the House of Lords and the Lord Chancellor was, until recently, always a member of the House of Lords, however the current holder is a member of the House of Commons, but otherwise it is now rare for a peer to sit in the Cabinet.

The final speech he ever gave was an address against the Maastricht Treaty on 17 February 1993 in the House of Lords, which he had always vehemently opposed and voted against in 1991.

Such permission was never granted but the Earls nevertheless ceased to use the Brooke earldom in style, and have always been known ( except in the House of Lords ) simply as The Earl of Warwick.

At the Brethren Court, she is elected " Pirate King " after Sparrow breaks a stalemate ( in all previous meetings except the first, Pirate Lords had always voted for themselves ).

The Australian Senate occupies a different position in the Australian Parliament from that of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on which the Australian Parliament is partly modelled, because the Senate has always been a popularly-elected body.

Now, there can be no more than 26 Lords Spiritual in the Lords, but they always include the five most important prelates of the Church: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Durham, and the Bishop of Winchester.

The occupants of the five " great sees "— Canterbury, York, London, Durham and Winchester — are always spiritual peers and Lords of Parliament.

Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as age and citizenship.

There are only nine Lords of the Night, which means that they cannot always represent the same day, but the list of gods repeats itself again and again so each lord accompanies a new number each trecena.

In exchange, he was created Earl of Tyrone, which was by the charter to descend to his illegitimate son Matthew or Ferdoragh O ' Neill, who was also created Baron of Dungannon, which was always to be held by the heir to the Earldom ; this was a substantive title, which gave Ferdoragh a seat in the Irish House of Lords, not a courtesy title.

" These annual gatherings are attended by the élite of fashion, and always include a large number of ladies, who generally evince the greatest interest in the target practice of the various competitors, whether it be for the honour of carrying off the Elcho Shield, the Queen's or the Prince of Wales's Prize, or the shield shot for by our great Public Schools, or the Annual Rifle Match between the Houses of Lords and Commons.

This was an interesting legal case as the House of Lords rejected the doctrine of pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant – that any child born within wedlock is always believed to fathered by the husband ( see the Earl of Banbury for a similar case ).