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This is a list of members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Current sitting members
Lords Spiritual
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man). Under the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, female bishops take precedence over men until May 2025 to become new Lords Spiritual for the 21 seats allocated by seniority.
Lords Temporal
Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 and remaining law life peers.
| ‡ | Indicates peer who returned to the House |
| Peer | Date joined | Party | Type | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Aberdare | 20 July 2009 | Crossbench | Hereditary peer | Businessman, Deputy Lieutenant of Dyfed | |
| Baroness Adams of Craigielea | 28 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Paisley North (1990–2005) | |
| Lord Addington | 17 June 1986 | Liberal Democrat | Hereditary peer | President of the British Dyslexia Association | |
| Lord Adebowale | 30 June 2001 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former chief executive of Turning Point, chair of the NHS Confederation | |
| Lord Adonis | 16 May 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former Secretary of State for Transport (2009–2010), former chairman of European Movement UK (2021–2022) | |
| Lord Agnew of Oulton | 19 October 2017 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Efficiency and Transformation (2020–2022), former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School System (2017–2020), founder of the Inspiration Trust | |
| Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 13 January 2011 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Merton London Borough Councillor for Wimbledon Park (2002–2014), Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations (since 2017) | |
| Lord Alderdice | 8 October 1996 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2004), former MLA for Belfast East (1998–2003), former member of Belfast City Council (1989–1997), former President of Liberal International (2005–2009) and former leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1987–1998) | |
| Lord Allan of Hallam | 22 July 2010 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Former MP for Sheffield Hallam (1997–2005) | |
| Lord Allen of Kensington | 2 October 2013 | Labour | Life peer | Businessman, chairman of THG plc, Global Radio and 2 Sisters Food Group, former chairman of EMI, former chief executive of Granada Group and ITV plc | |
| Lord Alli | 18 July 1998 | Labour | Life peer | Media entrepreneur, co-creator of Survivor, former Chancellor of De Montfort University, first openly gay peer in parliament | |
| Lord Alliance | 1 July 2004 | Liberal Democrat | Life peer | Chairman of N Brown Group | |
| Baroness Altmann | 19 May 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Pensions (2015–2016) | |
| Lord Alton of Liverpool | 12 June 1997 | Crossbench | Life peer | Former MP for Liverpool Edge Hill (1979–1983) and for Liverpool Mossley Hill (1983–1997) | |
| Lord Altrincham | 23 June 2021 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Banker, non-executive director of The Co-operative Bank | |
| Baroness Amos | 24 September 1997 | Labour | Life peer | Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, former Secretary of State for International Development, former British High Commissioner to Australia, and former Leader of the House of Lords | |
| Lord Anderson of Ipswich | 10 July 2018 | Crossbench | Life peer | Barrister, former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (2011–2017) | |
| Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent | 18 November 2022 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North (2015–2019) | |
| Lord Anderson of Swansea | 28 June 2005 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for Swansea East (1974–2005) | |
| Baroness Andrews | 9 May 2000 | Labour | Life peer | Former senior researcher in the House of Commons Library (1970–1985), former parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, former chair of English Heritage (2009–2013) | |
| Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 14 October 1996 | Conservative | Life peer | Former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and former Government Chief Whip in the Lords | |
| Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 1 October 2015 | Conservative | Life peer | Former MP for Wanstead & Woodford (1987–1997) and for North East Hampshire (1997–2015) | |
| Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare | 27 July 1992 | Non-affiliated | Life peer | Former MP for Louth (Lincolnshire) (1969–1974), novelist | |
| Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 18 June 2010 | Labour | Life peer | Former MP for North West Durham (1987–2010) | |
| Earl of Arran | 25 April 1983 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Sits as Baron Sudley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; his other titles are in the Peerage of Ireland | |
| Lord Ashcombe | 28 October 2022 | Conservative | Hereditary peer | Insurance broker and civil engineer. | |