Cross-bencher
Cross-bencher A cross-bencher is a member of the British House ... aligned with any party. They are termed cross-benchers because they sit on neither ...
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Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross (British wiki)
Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross Born: 30 May 1823 Died: 8 January ... 1914 [edit] Known as 1823-1886 Richard Cross 1886-1914 The Viscount Cross [edit] ...
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Members of the House of Lords
... Lord Party Type Notes The Lord Ackner Cross Bench Lord of Appeal The Lord Acton ... Democrat Elected Hereditary Peer The Lord Adebowale Cross Bench Life Peer The Lord Adonis Labour ... Life Peer The Lord Allen of Abbeydale Cross Bench Life Peer The Viscount Allenby Cross Bench Elected Hereditary Peer The Lord Alli ... Life Peer The Lord Alton of Liverpool Cross Bench Life Peer The Baroness Amos ...
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House of Lords
... elected Senate. Elect the Lords is a cross-party campaign initiative that was set up ... Falconer has announced plans to develop a cross party consensus on House of Lords reform. A cross-party group of senior MPs (Ken Clarke ... partisan. Publicly non-partisan Lords are called cross-benchers. Originally, the Lords Temporal included several ... on the left. Neutral members, known as Cross-benchers, sit on the benches immediately ...
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... elected Senate. Elect the Lords is a cross-party campaign initiative that was set up ... partisan. Publicly non-partisan Lords are called Cross-benchers. Originally, the Lords Temporal included several ... on the left. Neutral members, known as Cross-benchersSit on the benches immediately opposite the ... Democrats 69 3 2 0 0 74 Cross-benchers 155 28 2 2 0 187 ... Party: 2 peers Liberal Democrats: 3 peers Cross-benchers: 28 peers Of the initial ...
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Leonard Cheshire
... Second World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for ... given a life peerage, sitting as a cross-bencher. He lived through his final illness (Motor ... Britons, Cheshire attained position 31. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Imperial War Museum ... Andrew Boyle) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) Antoni Chmielowski Crossing ...
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Margaret of Mar, 30th Countess of Mar
... Mar (born 19 September 1940) is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords ... as of 2005. She sits as a cross-bencher, meaning she is not aligned with any ...
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David Alton
... Liverpool (born 15 March, 1951) is a cross bench member of the House of Lords ... Election and took that seat as a Cross-bencher. See also Morality and legality of abortion ...
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Tom Denning, Baron Denning
... Lincoln's Inn, and was later a bencher of the Inn (by 1982, he had been made an honorary bencher of both Gray's Inn and the ... cannot enter - all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.' So ...
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Members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom 1973-1979
... 1973 – 1979 O Lord O'Hagan Cross-bencher January 1, 1973 – July 3, 1975 ...
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