Life Peer
After his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1987 general election, he was created a life peer on 20 October 1987 as Baron Mason of Barnsley, of Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
Read more about this topic: Roy Mason (British Politician)
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or peer:
“Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 12:15.
“Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the “wrong crowd” read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren’t planning to get a Ph.D. from Yale.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)