Sometimes a peer has to add a territorial title to their name if there is already a peer using the same surname. When I received my peerage, there was already a Lord Norton, a hereditary peer. As I wanted to retain my surname, I had to add a territorial title. There is thus a difference between…
Peter Mandelson was introduced into the House on Monday and made his maiden speech today. He moved the Enterprise Act 2002 (Specification of Additional Section 58 Consideration) Order 2008, which may sound dull and technical but which was actually extremely important. It provides the opportunity for the minister to intervene in the TSB/HBOS merger talks…
The wives of male peers are styled Ladies. The husbands of women peers receive no prefix. Now, with civil partnerships, Iain Dale has done a post on the question asked in a blogpost by Shane Greer of the Telegraph: ‘in the event that a member of a civil partnership becomes a Lord (or indeed a Lady), shouldn’t the other…
Titles are a subject of contention (should a peerage carry a right to a seat in the upper house?) and of confusion. To illustrate the last point let me open with an admission. I am not Lord Norton! I am Lord Norton of Louth. When I became a peer, there was (and still is) a…
