Veritable orgy of life peerages announced today

[JL]

No news on the gazetting of the Grainger peerage, but I notice the Downing Street website lists a raft of life peers, very few of whom were MPs (John Redwood and Sarah Teather notwithstanding).  The Liberal Democrats have nominated the hereditary peers Lords Addington and Russell and the Earl of Kinnoull has been nominated for a life peerage - one assumes as a harbinger for the removal of the remaining hereditary peers/  The superb historian Simon Heffer is also ennobled; I can't say any of the others seem to be household names..

The final tally is 25 Labour, 5 Liberal Democrat, 3 Conservative and 1 crossbench; still nothing for Reform.

Political Peerages December 2025 - GOV.UK.

[Peter FitzGerald]

Odd that Lord Addington is described as "Dominic Hubbard (Lord Addington)" (using both his surname and his title), whereas Lord Kinnoull is described as "Charles Kinnoull (The Earl of Kinnoull)" (as if his title were also his surname - his actual surname is Hay).

[sven_me...@web.de]

Disgusting that there are these exceptions like in 1999.

[992234177]

Sharon Davies is an interest choice 

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Any idea why those 3 specific hereditary peers were chosen, instead of others?

Brooke

[Jonathan]

On Wednesday, 10 December 2025 at 23:02:43 UTC ... wrote:

Any idea why those 3 specific hereditary peers were chosen, instead of others?

Two are both Liberal Democrats. The BBC article on the announcement implies that the Lib Dems specifically have decided to nominate their hereditaries in order to keep them in the Lords (they currently have four in total; I haven't looked up who the others are, but these two must be the most active).

Lord Kinnoull has been chosen as he is a deputy speaker.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Thanks, Jonathan

Brooke

[colinp]

A few DOB's (other than the hereditaries)-

Nominations from the Leader of the Labour Party:

1. Andy (Andrew) Dudley Roe KSFM – b 1 July 1974
2. Dame Ann Geraldine Limb DBE DL – b 13 Feb 1953 cp
3. Brenda Vanessa Dacres OBE - b 10 Nov 1966
4. Carol Laurette Linforth OBE -
5. Catherine MacLeod -
6. David Isaac CBE – b 31 Mar 1958
7. David James Pitt-Watson – b 23 Sep 1956
8. Farmida Bi CBE – b 2 Sep 1967
9. Professor Geeta Nargund – b 23 Oct 1959
10. Katie Martin –
11. Joseph [Joe] Paul Docherty – b 7 Sep 1969
12. Len (Leonard) Lloyd Duvall OBE – b 26 Sep 1961
13. Matthew Leo Doyle – b 21 Jun 1975
14. Sir Michael Bayldon Barber – b 24 Nov 1955
15. Neena Gill CBE – b 24 Dec 1956 div
16. Nick (Nicholas) Ian Forbes CBE – b 8 Nov 1973
17. Peter Bonyiah Babudu – b 17 Jun 1983
18. Peter John OBE – b 26 Oct 1966
19. Richard Malcolm Walker OBE – b 5 Aug 1980
20. Russell Keith Hobby CBE – 22 Jan 1972
21. Cllr. Dr Sara Kathryn Sabiers Hyde – b 20 Jun 1979
22. Cllr. Shama Tatler – b Sep 1982
23. Dr Sophy Antrobus MBE -
24. Tracey Paul -
25. Uday Kumar Nagaraju – b 1 Aug 1979

Nominations from the Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party:

1. Mike Dixon –
2. Dominic Hubbard (Lord Addington) – [see DPB}
3. Rhiannon Leaman –
4. John Russell (Earl Russell) – [see DPB]
5. Sarah Louise Teather – b 1 Jun 1974

Nominations from the Leader of the Conservatives:

1. Sharron Elizabeth Davies MBE – b 1 Nov 1962 sep
2. Simon James Heffer – b 18 Jul 1960 m
3. The Rt Hon Sir John Alan Redwood – b 15 Jun 1951 div

Nominations for Crossbench Peerages:

1. Charles Kinnoull (The Earl of Kinnoull) DL - [see DPB]