Life peerage for Advocate General for Scotland

[David Beamish]

Yesteday, 29 August, the Prime Minister's Office announced (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointment-29-august-2024) the following appointment:

The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Catherine Smith KC as Advocate General for Scotland.
His Majesty has also been pleased to signify His intention of conferring a peerage of the United Kingdom for Life on Catherine Smith KC.

She was born on 4 May 1973 and is the youngest of the three daughters of the late Rt Hon John Smith QC MP and Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill.

[Shachar Raz]

Apparently this will be the first case of a mother and daughter together in the Lords

[S. S.]

I am still waiting for someone to take up a peerage starting with the letter "X". At least all peerages will line up nicely alphabetically :)

S.S.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

S.S., at the rate life peers keep getting created, they may have to resort to that in the not to distant future!

Brooke

[Robert Jewell]

I am interested in how life peers produce future life peers among their sons and daughters: sort of a non-hereditary inclination.

I don't have means to easily search for such families, but I recall several I've bumped into.

[S. S.]

Robert, you can look up the Wikipedia page titled "List of related life peers". There you can find connections by blood and marriage among life peers and some hereditary peers. Very handy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_related_life_peers

S.S.

[Robert Jewell]

I didn't even think to look there. More than I thought. Thanks.

[David Beamish]

This morning The Hon. Catherine Anne Smith KC was introduced in the House of Lords as Baroness Smith of Cluny, of Cluny in the City of Edinburgh. Letters patent dated 9 October. Her supporters were her mother, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, and Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws.

[colinp]

SS - perhaps one day a peerage will be conferred on a person of Chinese heritage called Xi/Xian or maybe on a person of Spanish heritage called Ximenes.

Interestingly Leigh Rayment only listed one knight with surname beginning X created since 1837 (among over 25,000).  He was Sir Anastasio Tipaldo Xidian cr KCMG in 1849 - from the Ionian Islands (or possibly Malta).  Leigh didn't give any dates for him

[S. S.]

Sir Anastasio is evidently some sort of figure in Ionian politics. I found one reference to him in a notice. 

S.S.

[David Beamish]

Now in the Edinburgh Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4723905

THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 9 October 2024 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Catherine Anne Smith, K.C., (commonly called The Honourable Catherine Anne Smith), by the name, style and title of BARONESS SMITH OF CLUNY, of Cluny in the City of Edinburgh.