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Definition of Life peer
1. Noun. A British peer whose title lapses at death.
Definition of Life peer
1. Noun. (context: Westminster Parliament) A member of the House of Lords, appointed for life, but whose position is not hereditary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Peer
Literary usage of Life peer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1899)
"... prerogative Baron Parke a life peer, under the title of Lord Wensleydale.
The fact that he might just as well have been made an hereditary peer, ..."
2. St. Petersburg and London in the Years 1852-64 by Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1887)
"As he had no children and was already an old man, it was, practically speaking,
quite immaterial whether he was a life peer or an hereditary one. ..."
3. Realities and Ideals: Social, Political, Literary and Artistic by Frederic Harrison (1908)
"There is nothing to prevent the Crown from creating a life peer. Whether a Life
Peer could sit and vote in the House of Lords, without an Act of Parliament, ..."
4. St. Petersburg and London in the Years 1852-1864 by Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Henry Reeve, Edward Fairfax Taylor (1887)
"As he had no children and was already an old man, it was, practically speaking,
quite immaterial whether he was a life peer or an hereditary one. ..."
5. Memoirs of an Ex-minister: An Autobiography by James Howard Harris Malmesbury (1885)
"... a philosophic mind as the late member for Westminster (Mr. Mill) might very
properly be made a life peer if such a measure as the present were passed. ..."
6. Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"... 1886 broke ‘hyn mance yh and ifort 3rd Earl life peer 19th Earl 3rd Baron 5th
Earl 4th Earl 13th ..."
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