Peerage Act 1963 - Other Provisions

Other Provisions

The Act granted Peers of Scotland the same right to sit in the House of Lords as Peers of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom, thereby ending the election of representative peers. An amendment that would have allowed Irish peers to sit in the House as well was defeated by ninety votes to eight.

The Act also granted suo jure hereditary peeresses (other than those in the Peerage of Ireland) the right to sit in the House of Lords, which introduced twelve new women to the House. This was not the first time that women were members of the House of Lords; the Life Peerages Act 1958 allowed all life peers (men and women) to sit in the House. The 2nd Baroness Ravensdale had already entered the Lords in 1958 through the receipt of a life peerage. The women who took their seats in the House when the 1963 Act was passed were

1. The Countess of Erroll
2. The Countess of Sutherland
3. The Countess of Loudoun
4. The Countess of Dysart
5. The Countess of Seafield
6. The Lady de Ros
7. The Lady Zouche
8. The Lady Darcy de Knayth
9. The Lady Berkeley
10. The Lady Berners
11. The Lady Lucas of Crudwell
12. The Lady Kinloss