His wife, former health secretary Virginia Bottomley, was made a life peer in 2005.

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As followers of Fellowes know well, and as Kamp reports, he was made a Tory life peer in 2011.

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She became a member of the Order of Merit, and eventually a Lady of the Garter and a life peer as well.

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I've caught the 63-year-old writer and producer on his way to the House of Lords, where he was made a Life Peer in 2011.

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His wife, Baroness Hogg, sits as a crossbencher in the Lords having been made a life peer by former Tory Prime Minister Sir John Major.

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Lord McAlpine, whose grandfather founded the McAlpine construction firm, is a life peer who took the title of Baron McAlpine of West Green in Hampshire.

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His bid for the job at the Humberside force comes almost two years after he entered the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of East Yorkshire.

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Appointed a life peer in the House of Lords, she held junior ministerial posts before becoming leader of the upper house of Parliament, a big job with cabinet status, where she earned a reputation as a shrewd political manager.

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He was made a peer only in 2010 but began his political life at the Conservative research department in the 1980s.

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As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.

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