Hundreds of life peerages have been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the Life Peerages Act 1958.
- List of life peerages (1958–1979)
- Created under the premierships of Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, and James Callaghan
- List of life peerages (1979–1997)
- Created under the premierships of Margaret Thatcher and John Major
- List of life peerages (1997–2010)
- Created under the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
- List of life peerages (2010–present)
- Created under the premiership of David Cameron
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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.”
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“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)