House of Lords organization

“He and Montefiore then took it to their old friend, the former Chancellor Vansittart (now Lord Bexley), who agreed to present it in the Lords after some minor alterations.…”

“In June 1922, the House of Lords rejected a Palestine Mandate that incorporated the Balfour Declaration by 60 votes to 25, following a motion issued by Lord Islington.…”

“The vote proved to be only symbolic as it was subsequently overruled by a vote in the House of Commons...…”

“...and Arthur Colegate, who died a strong Tory and member of the House of Lords.…”

“In August 1887 the Earl of Wemyss treated the House of Lords to a long address on recent socialist legislation.…”

“In 1896 and again in the following year the bishops took the lead in inducing the House of Lords to throw out private members' bills based upon the recommendations of the Gresham Report.…”

“Lionel seems to have resolved to adopt a method which the older generation of Rothschilds had used to great effect... to secure some votes in the House of Lords…”

“Three years later, it was apparently pressure from “the Court”—that is, Albert and Stockmar—which induced Lord Aberdeen to drop his opposition to emancipation in order to form a coalition between Peelites and Whigs.…”

“it was once again (as he had foreseen) thrown out by the Lords by 95 votes to 25.…”

“On May 31, the Earl of Lucan proposed what proved to be the solution: that the Commons should be allowed to change its own oath of admission by resolution, provided this was first legalised by act of Parliament.…”

“The idea, as expressed by the Liberal leader in the Lords Earl Granville, was that the Rothschilds now represented “a class whose influence is great by their wealth, their intelligence, their literary connections, and their numerous seats i…”

“But, speaking later in the Lords, Natty reverted to his original economic critique, assuring fellow peers…”

“The link between City opposition and the peers’ opposition was deliberately symbolised when Natty presented the Budget Protest League’s petition—carrying 14,000 signatures—to the Lords on November 22.…”

“As Lipman has shown with reference to the period 1859 to 1914, there was a difference between the average yield of consols under Conservative governments and the average yield under Liberal governments…”

“As early as December 1906, Lansdowne indicated that he did not wish to see a head-to-head confrontation with the government...…”

“If, as he suspected in February 1907, the government wished to provoke the Lords into rejecting “very popular measures” in order to fight a new election on the constitutional issue...…”

“But in the end it was the Lords who lost their power to veto finance bills.…”

“Even in 1946, speaking in the House of Lords, Victor defended the policy of restricting immigration to Palestine...…”

“produced a lot of the people that we covered in the first couple of weeks. Yeah. A lot of philosophers. Yep. Indeed. Okay. So he was real big in the labor party, served in a lot of labor offices later in life. He was a member of parliament …”