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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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life peers
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Men and women granted non-hereditary *peerages, as barons and baronesses. The first were created in 1876, as *Law Lords. The principle was extended in 1958 to people of distinction in public life, with some degree of expectation that they will take an active part in the House of *Lords.
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