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Meaning of "representative peer"
In the context of the British peerage system, a representative peer is an individual who is elected or appointed to represent a specific peerage or group of hereditary peers in the House of Lords. This practice was abolished in 1999, but it previously allowed a limited number of peers to represent the entire peerage
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He served as a representative peer for Scotland.
He also sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer.
The duke was a representative peer for Scotland in four parliaments.
He was the last surviving person to have sat as a Scottish Representative Peer.
He subsequently became a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords.
He served as Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright and, from 1787, as a representative peer for Scotland.
He later served as a Scottish representative peer at Westminster, from 1722 until his death.
Subsequently, he was chosen as a representative peer.
He was a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1917.
He was then elected to the House of Lords as a Representative Peer for Ireland in 1841.
He was an Irish representative peer and Sheriff of County Westmeath in 1870.
Seven years later, he was elected a representative peer and joined the House of Lords.
He was elected a Scots representative peer and appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1768.
Lord Haddington was elected a representative peer from 1874 until his death.
In 1857 he was elected an Irish Representative Peer and entered the House of Lords.
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