Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over eight hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited.
For the by-election of one Labour hereditary peer, he said there had been an "absurd" 11 candidates and just three electors.
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He became a hereditary peer in the House of Lords after the death of his father, who was British, in 1996.
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Also big is OCRA Worldwide, based on the Isle of Man and chaired by Lord St John of Bletso, a hereditary peer and lawyer.
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