Representative peer, Representative peer - House of Commons, Representative peer - Ireland, Representative peer - Scotland, List of Irish representative peers, List of Scottish representative peers
Under the Act of Union of 1800, Irish peers elected twenty-eight representative peers, who served for life. The Chamber of the Irish House of Lords housed the first election, with the peers or their proxies attending. The Clerk of the Crown in Ireland was responsible for electoral arrangements; each peer voted by an open and public ballot. The results of the first election were announced by the Clerk of the Crown. After the Union, new elections were held whenever vacancies occurred due to the death of any peer. The Lord Chancellor of Great B ...
Under the Act of Union of 1707, the peers of Scotland were entitled to elect sixteen representative peers. Each representative peer served for the duration of one Parliament (a maximum of seven years), but could be re-elected during future Parliaments. Upon the summons of a new Parliament following the dissolution of a previous one, the Sovereign would issue a proclamation summoning Scottish peers to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The elections were held in the Great Gallery, the large room that was decorated by eighty-nine of Jacob de Wet's p ...
After the Union between England and Scotland in 1707, Scottish peers (even those who did not sit as representative peers) were barred from sitting in the House of Commons. Irish peers, however, were not subjected to the same disability after 1801. It was provided that Irish peers (but not representative peers) could serve from a constituency in Great Britain provided they gave up their privileges. Under no circumstanc ...
