List of life peerages (1979–1997)

This is a list of life peerages in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 from 1979 to 1997, during the tenures of the Conservative prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Peerages and baronetcies of Britain and Ireland

Extant	All
Dukes	Dukedoms
Marquesses	Marquessates
Earls	Earldoms
Viscounts	Viscountcies
Barons	Baronies
En, Sc, GB, Ir, UK (Law, Life: 1958–1979, 1979–1997, 1997–2010, 2010–2024, 2024–present)
Baronets	Baronetcies

Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990)

  Living

  Living but left the House of Lords

Date of creation	Name	Title	Territorial qualification	Date of retirement (if applicable)	Date of extinction (if applicable)
21 May 1979	Irwin Bellow	Baron Bellwin	of the City of Leeds		11 February 2001
3 July 1979	Harold Lever ‡	Baron Lever of Manchester	of Cheetham in the City of Manchester		6 August 1995
5 July 1979	Michael Stewart ‡ # [lower-alpha 1]	Baron Stewart of Fulham	of Fulham in Greater London		10 March 1990
6 July 1979	James Mackay	Baron Mackay of Clashfern	of Eddrachillis in the District of Sutherland	22 July 2022 [1]
9 July 1979	George Strauss ‡	Baron Strauss	of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth		5 June 1993
10 July 1979	Sydney Irving ‡	Baron Irving of Dartford	of Dartford in the County of Kent		18 December 1989
10 July 1979	Myer Galpern ‡	Baron Galpern	of Shettleston in the District of the City of Glasgow		23 September 1993
11 July 1979	Lena Jeger ‡	Baroness Jeger	of St Pancras in Greater London		26 February 2007
11 July 1979	David Renton ‡	Baron Renton	of Huntingdon in the County of Cambridgeshire		24 May 2007
12 July 1979	Joseph Godber ‡	Baron Godber of Willington	of Willington in the County of Bedfordshire		25 August 1980
12 July 1979	Reg Underhill	Baron Underhill	of Leyton in Greater London		12 March 1993
16 July 1979	Cledwyn Hughes ‡	Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos	of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesey		22 February 2001
17 July 1979	John Brooks	Baron Brooks of Tremorfa	of Tremorfa in the County of South Glamorgan		4 March 2016
18 July 1979	Robert Lowry	Baron Lowry	of Crossgar in the County of Down		15 January 1999
19 July 1979	Ralph Harris	Baron Harris of High Cross	of Tottenham in Greater London		19 October 2006
24 July 1979	Willie Ross ‡	Baron Ross of Marnock	of Kilmarnock in the District of Kilmarnock and Loudoun		10 June 1988
25 July 1979	Oscar Murton ‡	Baron Murton of Lindisfarne	of Hexham in the County of Northumberland		5 July 2009
26 July 1979	Emlyn Hooson ‡	Baron Hooson	of Montgomery in the County of Powys and of Colomendy in the County of Clwyd		21 February 2012
30 July 1979	Jean McFarlane	Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff	of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan		13 May 2012
6 August 1979	Diana Neave	Baroness Airey of Abingdon	of Abingdon in the County of Oxford		27 November 1992
7 August 1979	Richard Wood ‡ [lower-alpha 2]	Baron Holderness	of Bishop Wilton in the County of Humberside		11 August 2002
7 September 1979	David Gibson-Watt ‡	Baron Gibson-Watt	of the Wye in the District of Radnor		7 February 2002
27 September 1979	Hugh Trevor-Roper [lower-alpha 3]	Baron Dacre of Glanton	of Glanton in the County of Northumberland		26 January 2003
2 October 1979	Betty Harvie Anderson ‡	Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter	of Dunipace in the District of Falkirk		7 November 1979
28 January 1980	Donald Coggan	Baron Coggan	of Canterbury and of Sissinghurst in the County of Kent		17 May 2000
4 February 1980	Jean Barker	Baroness Trumpington	of Sandwich in the County of Kent	24 October 2017 [1]	26 November 2018
6 February 1980	Kenneth Keith	Baron Keith of Castleacre	of Swaffham in the County of Norfolk		1 September 2004
8 February 1980	John Hunt	Baron Hunt of Tanworth	of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwickshire		17 July 2008
11 February 1980	George Emslie, Lord Emslie	Baron Emslie	of Potterton in the District of Gordon		21 November 2002
14 February 1980	Marcus Sieff [lower-alpha 4]	Baron Sieff of Brimpton	of Brimpton in the Royal County of Berkshire		23 February 2001
21 February 1980	Edwin McAlpine [lower-alpha 5]	Baron McAlpine of Moffat	of Medmenham in the County of Buckinghamshire		7 January 1990
10 July 1980	Tom Boardman ‡	Baron Boardman	of Welford in the County of Northamptonshire		10 March 2003
11 July 1980	Frank Marshall	Baron Marshall of Leeds	of Shadwell in the City of Leeds		1 November 1990
17 July 1980	Arnold Weinstock	Baron Weinstock	of Bowden in the County of Wiltshire		23 July 2002
22 July 1980	Victor Matthews	Baron Matthews	of Southgate in the London Borough of Enfield		5 December 1995
1 September 1980	Francis McFadzean	Baron McFadzean of Kelvinside	of Kelvinside in the District of the City of Glasgow		23 May 1992
2 February 1981	Henry Benson	Baron Benson	of Drovers in the County of West Sussex		5 March 1995
16 February 1981	Michael Swann	Baron Swann	of Coln St. Denys in the County of Gloucestershire		22 September 1990
11 May 1981	Geoffrey Tordoff	Baron Tordoff	of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire	13 October 2016 [1]	22 June 2019
12 May 1981	William Molloy ‡ #	Baron Molloy	of Ealing in Greater London		26 May 2001
14 May 1981	Hugh Jenkins ‡	Baron Jenkins of Putney	of Wandsworth in Greater London		26 January 2004
18 May 1981	John Mackie ‡	Baron John-Mackie	of Nazeing in the County of Essex		26 May 1994
19 May 1981	Felicity Lane-Fox	Baroness Lane-Fox	of Bramham in the County of West Yorkshire		17 April 1988
21 May 1981	Edward Bishop ‡	Baron Bishopston	of Newark in the County of Nottinghamshire		19 April 1984
22 May 1981	Jane Ewart-Biggs	Baroness Ewart-Biggs	of Ellis Green in the County of Essex		8 October 1992
26 May 1981	Max Beloff	Baron Beloff	of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire		22 March 1999
27 May 1981	Elystan Morgan ‡	Baron Elystan-Morgan	of Aberteifi in the County of Dyfed	12 February 2020 [1]	7 July 2021
28 May 1981	Beryl Platt	Baroness Platt of Writtle	of Writtle in the County of Essex		1 February 2015
29 May 1981	Desmond Plummer	Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone	of the City of Westminster		2 October 2009
1 June 1981	Anthony Stodart ‡	Baron Stodart of Leaston	of Humbie in the District of East Lothian		31 May 2003
2 June 1981	Alan Campbell	Baron Campbell of Alloway	of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick		30 June 2013
16 June 1981	Hugh Thomas	Baron Thomas of Swynnerton	of Notting Hill in Greater London		6 May 2017
19 June 1981	Trixie Gardner	Baroness Gardner of Parkes	of Southgate in Greater London and of Parkes in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia		14 April 2024
6 July 1981	Christopher Mayhew ‡	Baron Mayhew	of Wimbledon in Greater London		7 January 1997
15 July 1981	Richard Marsh ‡	Baron Marsh	of Mannington in the County of Wiltshire		29 July 2011
21 July 1981	Theodore Constantine	Baron Constantine of Stanmore	of Stanmore in Greater London		13 February 2004
22 September 1981	Lawrence Kadoorie	Baron Kadoorie	of Kowloon in Hong Kong and of the City of Westminster		25 August 1993
2 February 1982	Charles Forte	Baron Forte	of Ripley in the County of Surrey		28 February 2007
8 February 1982	Sir Nicholas Cayzer, Bt.	Baron Cayzer	of St Mary Axe in the City of London		16 April 1999
10 February 1982	Ian Bancroft	Baron Bancroft	of Coatham in the County of Cleveland		19 November 1996
21 May 1982	Murray MacLehose	Baron MacLehose of Beoch	of Maybole in the District of Kyle and Carrick and of Victoria in Hong Kong		27 May 2000
14 July 1982	Elizabeth Carnegy	Baroness Carnegy of Lour	of Lour in the District of Angus		9 November 2010
16 July 1982	Raymond Pennock	Baron Pennock	of Norton in the County of Cleveland		23 February 1993
20 July 1982	Joe Gormley	Baron Gormley	of Ashton-in-Makerfield in Greater Manchester		27 May 1993
19 November 1982	Terence Lewin	Baron Lewin	of Greenwich in Greater London		23 January 1999
17 January 1983	Andrew McIntosh	Baron McIntosh of Haringey	of Haringey in Greater London		27 August 2010
20 January 1983	Wendy Nicol	Baroness Nicol	of Newnham in the County of Cambridgeshire		15 January 2018
24 January 1983	Caroline Cox	Baroness Cox	of Queensbury in Greater London
27 January 1983	Francis Taylor	Baron Taylor of Hadfield	of Hadfield in the County of Derbyshire		15 February 1995
31 January 1983	John Taylor	Baron Ingrow	of Keighley in the County of West Yorkshire		7 February 2002
2 February 1983	Derek Ezra	Baron Ezra	of Horsham in the County of West Sussex		22 December 2015
3 February 1983	Derek Rayner	Baron Rayner	of Crowborough in the County of East Sussex		26 June 1998
7 February 1983	Anthony Quinton	Baron Quinton	of Holywell in the City of Oxford and County of Oxfordshire		19 June 2010
9 February 1983	Gwilym Prys Davies	Baron Prys-Davies	of Llanegryn in the County of Gwynedd	23 May 2015 [1]	28 March 2017
10 February 1983	Peter Thomas Bauer	Baron Bauer	of Market Ward in the City of Cambridge		3 May 2002
11 February 1983	Gordon Richardson	Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne	of Duntisbourne in the County of Gloucestershire		22 January 2010
14 March 1983	Neil Cameron	Baron Cameron of Balhousie	of Balhousie in the District of Perth and Kinross		29 January 1985
28 March 1983	John Gallacher	Baron Gallacher	of Enfield in Greater London		4 January 2004
30 June 1983	James Hanson	Baron Hanson	of Edgerton in the County of West Yorkshire		1 November 2004
1 July 1983	George Howard [lower-alpha 6]	Baron Howard of Henderskelfe	of Henderskelfe in the County of North Yorkshire		27 November 1984
4 July 1983	Hamish Gray ‡	Baron Gray of Contin	of Contin in the District of Ross and Cromarty		14 March 2006
15 July 1983	John King	Baron King of Wartnaby	of Wartnaby in the County of Leicestershire		12 July 2005
5 September 1983	Stuart Blanch	Baron Blanch	of Bishopthorpe in the County of North Yorkshire		3 June 1994
7 September 1983	Jock Stallard ‡	Baron Stallard	of St Pancras in the London Borough of Camden		29 March 2008
9 September 1983	David Ennals ‡	Baron Ennals	of Norwich in the County of Norfolk		17 June 1995
12 September 1983	Ted Graham ‡	Baron Graham of Edmonton	of Edmonton in Greater London		21 March 2020
14 September 1983	David Stoddart ‡	Baron Stoddart of Swindon	of Reading in the Royal County of Berkshire		14 November 2020
16 September 1983	Harold Wilson ‡	Baron Wilson of Rievaulx	of Kirklees in the County of West Yorkshire		24 May 1995
19 September 1983	Angus Maude ‡ [lower-alpha 7]	Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon	of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwickshire		9 November 1993
21 September 1983	Sir Derek Walker-Smith, Bt. ‡ #	Baron Broxbourne	of Broxbourne in the County of Hertfordshire		22 January 1992
23 September 1983	Sir Donald Kaberrym Bt. ‡	Baron Kaberry of Adel	of Adel in the City of Leeds		13 March 1991
27 September 1983	Anthony Royle ‡	Baron Fanshawe of Richmond	of South Cerney in the County of Gloucestershire		28 December 2001
28 September 1983	Joseph Dean ‡	Baron Dean of Beswick	of West Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire		26 February 1999
30 September 1983	Joel Barnett ‡	Baron Barnett	of Heywood and Royton in Greater Manchester		1 November 2014
3 October 1983	Sir John Eden, Bt. ‡	Baron Eden of Winton	of Rushyford in the County of Durham	11 June 2015 [1]	23 May 2020
5 October 1983	John Peyton ‡	Baron Peyton of Yeovil	of Yeovil in the County of Somerset		22 November 2006
7 October 1983	Jock Bruce-Gardyne ‡	Baron Bruce-Gardyne	of Kirkden in the District of Angus		15 April 1990
10 October 1983	Neil Carmichael ‡	Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove	of Camlachie in the District of the City of Glasgow		19 July 2001
12 October 1983	Jo Grimond ‡	Baron Grimond	of Firth in the County of Orkney		24 October 1993
14 October 1983	Gerry Fitt ‡	Baron Fitt	of Bell's Hill in the County of Down		26 August 2005
30 January 1984	Fred Mulley ‡	Baron Mulley	of Manor Park in the City of Sheffield		15 March 1995
31 January 1984	Arthur Bottomley ‡	Baron Bottomley	of Middlesbrough in the County of Cleveland		3 November 1995
1 February 1984	Peter Henderson	Baron Henderson of Brompton	of Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and of Brough in the County of Cumbria		13 January 2000
2 February 1984	Alistair McAlpine [lower-alpha 8]	Baron McAlpine of West Green	of West Green in the County of Hampshire	26 May 2010 [2]	17 January 2014
8 June 1984	Kenneth Cameron	Baron Cameron of Lochbroom	of Lochbroom in the District of Ross and Cromarty	21 April 2016 [1]
10 October 1984	David Young	Baron Young of Graffham	of Graffham in the County of West Sussex	27 April 2022 [1]	8 December 2022
4 February 1985	Frank Chapple	Baron Chapple	of Hoxton in Greater London		19 October 2004
6 February 1985	Mary Warnock	Baroness Warnock	of Weeke in the City of Winchester	1 June 2015 [1]	20 March 2019
7 February 1985	Nigel Vinson	Baron Vinson	of Roddam Dene in the County of Northumberland	13 July 2022 [1]
14 February 1985	Len Murray	Baron Murray of Epping Forest	of Telford in the County of Shropshire		20 May 2004
9 May 1985	Marcus Kimball ‡	Baron Kimball	of Easton in the County of Leicestershire		26 March 2014
13 May 1985	Samuel Silkin ‡ [lower-alpha 9]	Baron Silkin of Dulwich	of North Leigh in the County of Oxfordshire		17 August 1988
15 May 1985	Jack Butterworth	Baron Butterworth	of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire		19 June 2003
16 May 1985	William Elliott ‡	Baron Elliott of Morpeth	of Morpeth in the County of Northumberland and of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne		20 May 2011
17 May 1985	Dick Crawshaw ‡	Baron Crawshaw of Aintree	of Salford in the County of Greater Manchester		16 July 1986
21 May 1985	Bernard Donoughue	Baron Donoughue	of Ashton in the County of Northamptonshire
22 May 1985	Charles Williams	Baron Williams of Elvel	of Llansantffraed in Elvel in the County of Powys		30 December 2019
29 May 1985	Muriel Turner	Baroness Turner of Camden	of Camden in Greater London	13 June 2017 [3]	26 February 2018
30 May 1985	Hugh Morton	Baron Morton of Shuna	of Stockbridge in the District of the City of Edinburgh		26 April 1995
5 June 1985	Charles Sanderson	Baron Sanderson of Bowden	of Melrose in the District of Ettrick and Lauderdale	29 March 2018 [1]
10 June 1985	Gloria Hooper #	Baroness Hooper	of Liverpool and of St James's in the City of Westminster
13 June 1985	Leonard Wolfson	Baron Wolfson	of Marylebone in the City of Westminster		20 May 2010
12 July 1985	Bob Mellish ‡	Baron Mellish	of Bermondsey in Greater London		9 May 1998
22 July 1985	Walter Marshall	Baron Marshall of Goring	of South Stoke in the County of Oxfordshire		20 February 1996
14 February 1986	Frederick Dainton	Baron Dainton	of Hallam Moors in South Yorkshire		5 December 1997
21 July 1986	Mark Bonham Carter ‡ [lower-alpha 10]	Baron Bonham-Carter	of Yarnbury in the County of Wiltshire		4 September 1994
22 July 1986	Philip Moore	Baron Moore of Wolvercote	of Wolvercote in the City of Oxford		7 April 2009
23 September 1986	Bill Deedes ‡	Baron Deedes	of Aldington in the County of Kent		17 August 2007
3 February 1987	Woodrow Wyatt ‡	Baron Wyatt of Weeford	of Weeford in the County of Staffordshire		7 December 1997
9 February 1987	Edwin Bramall	Baron Bramall	of Bushfield in the County of Hampshire	25 April 2013 [4]	12 November 2019
18 March 1987	Tessa Blackstone	Baroness Blackstone	of Stoke Newington in Greater London
23 March 1987	Denis Carter	Baron Carter	of Devizes in the County of Wiltshire		18 December 2006
24 March 1987	Maurice Peston	Baron Peston	of Mile End in Greater London		23 April 2016
25 March 1987	Derry Irvine	Baron Irvine of Lairg	of Lairg in the District of Sutherland
27 March 1987	David Stevens	Baron Stevens of Ludgate	of Ludgate in the City of London
30 March 1987	Charles Johnston	Baron Johnston of Rockport	of Caversham in the Royal County of Berkshire		30 April 2002
31 March 1987	David Basnett	Baron Basnett	of Leatherhead in the County of Surrey		25 January 1989
3 April 1987	Anthony Trafford ‡	Baron Trafford	of Falmer in the County of East Sussex		16 September 1989
6 April 1987	Henry Plumb #	Baron Plumb	of Coleshill in the County of Warwickshire	3 November 2017 [1]	15 April 2022
7 April 1987	Emily Blatch	Baroness Blatch	of Hinchingbrooke in the County of Cambridgeshire		31 May 2005
8 April 1987	James Goold	Baron Goold	of Waterfoot in the District of Eastwood		27 July 1997
22 June 1987	Michael Havers ‡	Baron Havers	of St Edmundsbury in the County of Suffolk		1 April 1992
14 July 1987	Henry Chilver	Baron Chilver	of Cranfield in the County of Bedfordshire		8 July 2012
22 July 1987	Philip Knights	Baron Knights	of Edgbaston in the County of West Midlands		11 December 2014
5 October 1987	Geoffrey Rippon ‡ #	Baron Rippon of Hexham	of Hesleyside in the County of Northumberland		28 January 1997
6 October 1987	Michael Cocks ‡	Baron Cocks of Hartcliffe	of Chinnor in the County of Oxfordshire		26 March 2001
7 October 1987	Peter Thomas ‡	Baron Thomas of Gwydir	of Llanrwst in the County of Gwynedd		4 February 2008
8 October 1987	Douglas Jay ‡	Baron Jay	of Battersea in Greater London		6 March 1996
9 October 1987	Francis Pym ‡	Baron Pym	of Sandy in the County of Bedfordshire		7 March 2008
12 October 1987	Sir Keith Joseph, Bt. ‡	Baron Joseph	of Portsoken in the City of London		10 December 1994
13 October 1987	Jack Dormand ‡	Baron Dormand of Easington	of Easington in the County of Durham		18 December 2003
14 October 1987	Jim Prior ‡ [lower-alpha 11]	Baron Prior	of Brampton in the County of Suffolk		12 December 2016
15 October 1987	Nicholas Edwards ‡	Baron Crickhowell	of Pont Esgob in the Black Mountains and County of Powys		17 March 2018
16 October 1987	Humphrey Atkins ‡	Baron Colnbrook	of Waltham St Lawrence in the Royal County of Berkshire		4 October 1996
19 October 1987	Norman St John-Stevas ‡	Baron St John of Fawsley	of Preston Capes in the County of Northamptonshire		5 March 2012
20 October 1987	Roy Mason ‡	Baron Mason of Barnsley	of Barnsley in the South Yorkshire		20 April 2015
2 November 1987	Mark Carlisle ‡	Baron Carlisle of Bucklow	of Mobberley in the County of Cheshire		14 July 2005
3 November 1987	Patrick Jenkin ‡	Baron Jenkin of Roding	of Wanstead and Woodford in Greater London	6 January 2015 [1]	20 December 2016
4 November 1987	Stephen Ross ‡	Baron Ross of Newport	of Newport in the County of the Isle of Wight		10 May 1993
5 November 1987	James Callaghan ‡ [lower-alpha 12]	Baron Callaghan of Cardiff	of the City of Cardiff in the County of South Glamorgan		26 March 2005
16 November 1987	Peter Rees ‡	Baron Rees	of Goytre in the County of Gwent		30 November 2008
20 November 1987	Roy Jenkins ‡	Baron Jenkins of Hillhead	of Pontypool in the County of Gwent		5 January 2003
5 February 1988	Immanuel Jakobovits	Baron Jakobovits	of Regent's Park in Greater London		31 October 1999
8 February 1988	Judith Hart ‡	Baroness Hart of South Lanark	of Lanark in the County of Lanark		8 December 1991
15 February 1988	John Donaldson	Baron Donaldson of Lymington	of Lymington in the County of Hampshire		31 August 2005
26 February 1988	Robert Armstrong	Baron Armstrong of Ilminster	of Ashill in the County of Somerset		3 April 2020
11 July 1988	Robert Alexander	Baron Alexander of Weedon	of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire		6 November 2005
8 August 1988	William Rees-Mogg	Baron Rees-Mogg	of Hinton Blewitt in the County of Avon		29 December 2012
10 August 1988	John Butterfield	Baron Butterfield	of Stechford in the County of West Midlands		22 July 2000
18 October 1988	Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Lord Mackenzie Stuart	Baron Mackenzie-Stuart	of Dean in the District of the City of Edinburgh		1 April 2000
9 January 1989	Donald Macaulay	Baron Macaulay of Bragar	of Bragar in the County of Ross and Cromarty		12 June 2014
31 January 1989	John Sainsbury [lower-alpha 13]	Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover	of Preston Candover in the County of Hampshire		14 January 2022
8 February 1989	Jack Lewis	Baron Lewis of Newnham	of Newnham in the County of Cambridgeshire		17 July 2014
9 February 1989	Sally Oppenheim-Barnes ‡	Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes	of Gloucester in the County of Gloucestershire	25 February 2019 [1]
10 February 1989	Peter Fraser ‡	Baron Fraser of Carmyllie	of Carmyllie in the District of Angus		23 June 2013
21 July 1989	Eric Sharp	Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke	of Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow		2 May 1994
24 July 1989	John Walton	Baron Walton of Detchant	of Detchant in the County of Northumberland		21 April 2016
25 July 1989	Ian McColl	Baron McColl of Dulwich	of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark
26 February 1990	John Fieldhouse	Baron Fieldhouse	of Gosport in the County of Hampshire		17 February 1992
27 February 1990	Daphne Park	Baroness Park of Monmouth	of Broadway in the County of Hereford and Worcester		24 March 2010
28 February 1990	Francis Tombs	Baron Tombs	of Brailes in the County of Warwickshire	31 March 2015 [1]	11 April 2020
8 May 1990	Stanley Clinton-Davis ‡	Baron Clinton-Davis	of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney	10 January 2018 [1]	11 June 2023
9 May 1990	Brian Morris	Baron Morris of Castle Morris	of St Dogmaels in the County of Dyfed		30 April 2001
10 May 1990	Diana Eccles [lower-alpha 14]	Baroness Eccles of Moulton	of Moulton in the County of North Yorkshire
14 May 1990	Ivor Richard ‡	Baron Richard	of Ammanford in the County of Dyfed		18 March 2018
16 May 1990	Oulton Wade	Baron Wade of Chorlton	of Chester in the County of Cheshire	1 November 2016 [1]	7 June 2018
17 May 1990	Hugh Cavendish [lower-alpha 15]	Baron Cavendish of Furness	of Cartmel in the County of Cumbria	1 January 2021 [1]
18 May 1990	Julia Cumberlege	Baroness Cumberlege	of Newick in the County of East Sussex
21 May 1990	Heather Brigstocke [lower-alpha 16]	Baroness Brigstocke	of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea		30 April 2004
22 May 1990	Lawson Soulsby	Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior	of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridgeshire	31 December 2015 [1]	8 May 2017
29 May 1990	Richard Holme	Baron Holme of Cheltenham	of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucestershire		4 May 2008
30 May 1990	Eric Varley ‡	Baron Varley	of Chesterfield in the County of Derbyshire		29 July 2008
1 June 1990	Patricia Hollis	Baroness Hollis of Heigham	of Heigham in the City of Norwich		13 October 2018
11 June 1990	Shreela Flather	Baroness Flather	of Windsor and Maidenhead in the Royal County of Berkshire		6 February 2024
18 June 1990	Malcolm Pearson	Baron Pearson of Rannoch	of Bridge of Gaur in the District of Perth and Kinross
16 July 1990	George Porter	Baron Porter of Luddenham	of Luddenham in the County of Kent		31 August 2002
16 July 1990	Barbara Castle, Lady Castle ‡ # [lower-alpha 17]	Baroness Castle of Blackburn	of Ibstone in the County of Buckinghamshire		3 May 2002
17 July 1990	Peter Lane	Baron Lane of Horsell	of Woking in the County of Surrey		9 January 2009
13 August 1990	Robert Haslam	Baron Haslam	of Bolton in the County of Greater Manchester		2 November 2002
24 August 1990	Lydia Dunn	Baroness Dunn	of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong and of Knightsbridge in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	30 June 2010 [2]

‡ former MP
# former MEP

John Major (1990–1997)

  Living

  Living but left the House of Lords

Date of creation	Name	Title	Territorial qualification	Date of retirement (if applicable)	Date of extinction (if applicable)
4 December 1990	David Waddington ‡	Baron Waddington	of Read in the County of Lancashire	26 March 2015 [1]	23 February 2017
17 January 1991	Jeffrey Sterling	Baron Sterling of Plaistow	of Pall Mall in the City of Westminster
25 January 1991	Gordon White	Baron White of Hull	of Hull in the County of Humberside		23 August 1995
1 February 1991	Robert Runcie	Baron Runcie	of Cuddesdon in the County of Oxfordshire		11 July 2000
4 February 1991	Peter Palumbo [lower-alpha 18]	Baron Palumbo	of Walbrook in the City of London	2 September 2019 [1]
5 February 1991	Brian Griffiths	Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach	of Fforestfach in the County of West Glamorgan
7 February 1991	P. D. James	Baroness James of Holland Park	of Southwold in the County of Suffolk		27 November 2014
8 February 1991	Hector Laing	Baron Laing of Dunphail	of Dunphail in the District of Moray		21 June 2010
14 February 1991	Joan Seccombe	Baroness Seccombe	of Kineton in the County of Warwickshire
26 March 1991	David Wolfson [lower-alpha 19]	Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale	of Trevose in the County of Cornwall	13 June 2017 [3]	10 March 2021
5 June 1991	Meghnad Desai	Baron Desai	of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster
6 June 1991	Sally Hamwee	Baroness Hamwee	of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
7 June 1991	Mark Schreiber	Baron Marlesford	of Marlesford in the County of Suffolk
10 June 1991	Frank Judd ‡	Baron Judd	of Portsea in the County of Hampshire		18 April 2021
11 June 1991	Jean Denton	Baroness Denton of Wakefield	of Wakefield in the County of West Yorkshire		5 February 2001
14 June 1991	Jennifer Hilton	Baroness Hilton of Eggardon	of Eggardon in the County of Dorset	5 November 2021 [1]
19 June 1991	Ann Mallalieu	Baroness Mallalieu	of Studdridge in the County of Buckinghamshire
20 June 1991	Clive Hollick	Baron Hollick	of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
21 June 1991	Detta O'Cathain	Baroness O'Cathain	of The Barbican in the City of London		23 April 2021
24 June 1991	Colin Renfrew	Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn	of Hurlet in the District of Renfrew	15 September 2021 [1]
26 June 1991	John MacKay ‡	Baron Mackay of Ardbrecknish	of Tayvallich in the District of Argyll and Bute		21 February 2001
15 July 1991	Robert Skidelsky	Baron Skidelsky	of Tilton in the County of East Sussex
16 July 1991	Pauline Perry	Baroness Perry of Southwark	of Charlbury in the County of Oxfordshire	26 May 2016 [1]
17 July 1991	Leonard Cheshire [lower-alpha 20]	Baron Cheshire	of Woodhall in the County of Lincolnshire		31 July 1992
29 July 1991	Norman Macfarlane	Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden	of Bearsden in the District of Bearsden and Milngavie	21 July 2016 [1]	5 November 2021
30 July 1991	David Craig	Baron Craig of Radley	of Helhoughton in the County of Norfolk
27 January 1992	Brian Rix	Baron Rix	of Whitehall in the City of Westminster and of Hornsea in Yorkshire		20 August 2016
30 January 1992	Reg Prentice ‡	Baron Prentice	of Daventry in the County of Northamptonshire		18 January 2001
12 February 1992	Bill Rodgers ‡	Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank	of Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden	12 December 2023 [1]
14 February 1992	David Wilson	Baron Wilson of Tillyorn	of Finzean in the District of Kincardine and Deeside and of Fanling in Hong Kong	12 February 2021 [1]
24 April 1992	John Wakeham ‡	Baron Wakeham	of Maldon in the County of Essex
24 April 1992	Lynda Chalker ‡	Baroness Chalker of Wallasey	of Leigh-on-Sea in the County of Essex	3 February 2023 [1]
27 April 1992	Peter Taylor	Baron Taylor of Gosforth	of Embleton in the County of Northumberland		28 April 1997
29 April 1992	Alan Rodger	Baron Rodger of Earlsferry	of Earlsferry in the District of North East Fife		26 June 2011
26 June 1992	Margaret Thatcher ‡	Baroness Thatcher	of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire		7 April 2013
27 June 1992	Geoffrey Finsberg ‡	Baron Finsberg	of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden		7 October 1996
29 June 1992	Cecil Parkinson ‡	Baron Parkinson	of Carnforth in the County of Lancashire	14 September 2015 [1]	22 January 2016
29 June 1992	Denis Healey ‡	Baron Healey	of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire		3 October 2015
30 June 1992	David Owen ‡	Baron Owen	of the City of Plymouth	13 August 2024
30 June 1992	Geoffrey Howe ‡ [lower-alpha 21]	Baron Howe of Aberavon	of Tandridge in the County of Surrey	19 May 2015 [1]	9 October 2015
1 July 1992	Nigel Lawson ‡	Baron Lawson of Blaby	of Newnham in the County of Northamptonshire	31 December 2022 [1]	3 April 2023
1 July 1992	Merlyn Rees ‡	Baron Merlyn-Rees	of Morley and South Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire and of Cilfynydd in the County of Mid Glamorgan		5 January 2006
2 July 1992	Denis Howell ‡	Baron Howell	of Aston Manor in the City of Birmingham		19 April 1998
3 July 1992	John Moore ‡	Baron Moore of Lower Marsh	of Lower Marsh in the London Borough of Lambeth		20 May 2019
6 July 1992	Norman Tebbit ‡	Baron Tebbit	of Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest	31 March 2022 [1]
7 July 1992	George Younger ‡ [lower-alpha 22]	Baron Younger of Prestwick	of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick		26 January 2003
7 July 1992	Julian Amery ‡	Baron Amery of Lustleigh	of Preston in the County of Lancashire and of Brighton in the County of East Sussex		3 September 1996
7 July 1992	Peter Walker ‡	Baron Walker of Worcester	of Abbots Morton in the County of Hereford and Worcester		23 June 2010
9 July 1992	Peter Archer ‡	Baron Archer of Sandwell	of Sandwell in the County of West Midlands		14 June 2012
10 July 1992	Jack Ashley ‡	Baron Ashley of Stoke	of Widnes in the County of Cheshire		20 April 2012
14 July 1992	John Eatwell	Baron Eatwell	of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire
15 July 1992	Bernard Weatherill ‡	Baron Weatherill	of North East Croydon in the London Borough of Croydon		6 May 2007
17 July 1992	Harry Ewing ‡	Baron Ewing of Kirkford	of Cowdenbeath in the District of Dunfermline		9 June 2007
18 July 1992	Geraint Howells ‡	Baron Geraint	of Ponterwyd in the County of Dyfed		17 April 2004
20 July 1992	Ian Stewart ‡	Baron Stewartby	of Portmoak in the District of Perth and Kinross	12 November 2015 [1]	3 March 2018
21 July 1992	William Clark ‡	Baron Clark of Kempston	of Kempston in the County of Bedfordshire		4 October 2004
24 July 1992	Raymond Plant	Baron Plant of Highfield	of Weelsby in the County of Humberside	28 February 2024
27 July 1992	Jeffrey Archer ‡	Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare	of Mark in the County of Somerset	4 July 2024
28 July 1992	Nicholas Ridley ‡ [lower-alpha 23]	Baron Ridley of Liddesdale	of Willimontswick in the County of Northumberland		4 March 1993
29 July 1992	Margaret Jay [lower-alpha 24]	Baroness Jay of Paddington	of Paddington in the City of Westminster
30 July 1992	Gareth Williams	Baron Williams of Mostyn	of Great Tew in the County of Oxfordshire		20 September 2003
10 August 1992	Bernard Braine ‡	Baron Braine of Wheatley	of Rayleigh in the County of Essex		5 January 2000
11 August 1992	Alec Cooke	Baron Cooke of Islandreagh	of Islandreagh in the County of Antrim		13 November 2007
12 August 1992	Derek Barber	Baron Barber of Tewkesbury	of Gotherington in the County of Gloucestershire	25 March 2016 [1]	21 November 2017
21 August 1992	Barney Hayhoe ‡	Baron Hayhoe	of Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow		7 September 2013
25 August 1992	Sir Ian Gilmour, Bt. ‡	Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar	of Craigmillar in the District of the City of Edinburgh		21 September 2007
18 September 1992	Dafydd Elis-Thomas ‡	Baron Elis-Thomas	of Nant Conwy in the County of Gwynedd
1 February 1993	Shirley Williams ‡	Baroness Williams of Crosby	of Stevenage in the County of Hertfordshire	11 February 2016 [1]	12 April 2021
14 July 1993	Robin Leigh-Pemberton	Baron Kingsdown	of Pemberton in the County of Lancashire		24 November 2013
15 July 1993	Ralf Dahrendorf	Baron Dahrendorf	of Clare Market in the City of Westminster		17 June 2009
19 July 1993	Yehudi Menuhin	Baron Menuhin	of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey		12 March 1999
30 July 1993	Richard Attenborough	Baron Attenborough	of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames		24 August 2014
4 October 1993	Simon Haskel	Baron Haskel	of Higher Broughton in the County of Greater Manchester
5 October 1993	Paul Dean ‡	Baron Dean of Harptree	of Wedmore in the County of Somerset		1 April 2009
6 October 1993	Joyce Gould	Baroness Gould of Potternewton	of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire	22 July 2019 [1]
11 October 1993	Robert Dixon-Smith	Baron Dixon-Smith	of Bocking in the County of Essex	7 November 2023 [3]
12 October 1993	Brenda Dean	Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde	of Eccles in the County of Greater Manchester		13 March 2018
13 October 1993	Anthony Lester	Baron Lester of Herne Hill	of Herne Hill in the London Borough of Southwark	12 December 2018 [1]	7 August 2020
14 October 1993	Doreen Miller	Baroness Miller of Hendon	of Gore in the London Borough of Barnet		21 June 2014
15 October 1993	Christopher Tugendhat ‡	Baron Tugendhat	of Widdington in the County of Essex
10 February 1994	Patrick Wright	Baron Wright of Richmond	of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames	17 December 2019 [1]	6 March 2020
22 March 1994	David Nickson	Baron Nickson	of Renagour in the District of Stirling	27 March 2015 [1]
12 July 1994	Randolph Quirk	Baron Quirk	of Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden		20 December 2017
14 July 1994	David Chilton Phillips	Baron Phillips of Ellesmere	of Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire		23 February 1999
6 September 1994	Allen Sheppard	Baron Sheppard of Didgemere	of Roydon in the County of Essex		25 March 2015
26 September 1994	Charles Hambro	Baron Hambro	of Dixton and Dumbleton in the County of Gloucestershire		7 November 2002
27 September 1994	Alf Dubs ‡	Baron Dubs	of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth
28 September 1994	Derek Gladwin	Baron Gladwin of Clee	of Great Grimsby in the County of Humberside		10 April 2003
29 September 1994	Josie Farrington	Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton	of Fulwood in the County of Lancashire		30 March 2018
30 September 1994	Michael Shaw ‡ #	Baron Shaw of Northstead	of Liversedge in the County of West Yorkshire	31 March 2015 [1]	8 January 2021
4 October 1994	Graham Tope ‡	Baron Tope	of Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton
5 October 1994	Patricia Rawlings # [lower-alpha 25]	Baroness Rawlings	of Burnham Westgate in the County of Norfolk
6 October 1994	Susan Thomas	Baroness Thomas of Walliswood	of Dorking in the County of Surrey	18 May 2016 [3]	6 October 2023
7 October 1994	Christopher Prout #	Baron Kingsland	of Shrewsbury in the County of Shropshire		12 July 2009
10 October 1994	Peter Blaker ‡	Baron Blaker	of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire and of Lindfield in the County of West Sussex		5 July 2009
3 February 1995	Sarah Hogg [lower-alpha 26]	Baroness Hogg	of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire
10 February 1995	Brian McConnell	Baron McConnell	of Lisburn in the County of Antrim		25 October 2000
17 February 1995	Elizabeth Smith	Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill	of Gilmorehill in the District of the City of Glasgow
28 February 1995	David Hope, Lord Hope [lower-alpha 27]	Baron Hope of Craighead	of Bamff in the District of Perth and Kinross
24 July 1995	James Blyth	Baron Blyth of Rowington	of Rowington in the County of Warwickshire	1 January 2018 [1]
25 July 1995	John Cuckney	Baron Cuckney	of Millbank in the City of Westminster		30 October 2008
25 August 1995	Robin Eames	Baron Eames	of Armagh in the County of Armagh
7 September 1995	John Habgood	Baron Habgood	of Calverton in the County of Buckinghamshire	3 October 2011 [4]	6 March 2019
13 December 1995	Donald Mackay	Baron Mackay of Drumadoon	of Blackwaterfoot in the District of Cunninghame	17 January 2017 [1]	21 August 2018
18 December 1995	Robert Winston	Baron Winston	of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
19 December 1995	William Wallace	Baron Wallace of Saltaire	of Shipley in the County of West Yorkshire
20 December 1995	Tom McNally ‡	Baron McNally	of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire
21 December 1995	Gordon Borrie	Baron Borrie	of Abbots Morton in the County of Hereford and Worcester		30 September 2016
2 January 1996	Helene Hayman ‡	Baroness Hayman	of Dartmouth Park in the London Borough of Camden
10 January 1996	John Sewel	Baron Sewel	of Gilcomstoun in the District of the City of Aberdeen	30 July 2015 [1]
11 January 1996	Philip Harris	Baron Harris of Peckham	of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark
12 January 1996	Peter Pilkington	Baron Pilkington of Oxenford	of West Dowlish in the County of Somerset		14 February 2011
15 January 1996	Basil Feldman	Baron Feldman	of Frognal in the London Borough of Camden	30 June 2017 [1]	19 July 2019
16 January 1996	Judith Wilcox	Baroness Wilcox	of Plymouth in the County of Devon	17 December 2020 [1]
17 January 1996	Peter Bowness	Baron Bowness	of Warlingham in the County of Surrey and of Croydon in the London Borough of Croydon
5 February 1996	Dick Taverne ‡ #	Baron Taverne	of Pimlico in the City of Westminster
16 February 1996	Robert Kilpatrick	Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig	of Dysart in the District of Kirkcaldy		16 September 2015
21 February 1996	David Gillmore	Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield	of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth		20 March 1999
3 April 1996	Robin Cooke	Baron Cooke of Thorndon	of Wellington in New Zealand and of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire		30 August 2006
4 June 1996	Tom Bingham	Baron Bingham of Cornhill	of Boughrood in the County of Powys		11 September 2010
19 August 1996	June Lloyd	Baroness Lloyd of Highbury	of Highbury in the London Borough of Islington		28 June 2006
3 September 1996	Richard Vincent	Baron Vincent of Coleshill	of Shrivenham in the County of Oxfordshire	9 March 2016 [1]	7 September 2018
11 September 1996	Marmaduke Hussey	Baron Hussey of North Bradley	of North Bradley in the County of Wiltshire		27 December 2006
30 September 1996	Martin Thomas [lower-alpha 28]	Baron Thomas of Gresford	of Gresford in the County Borough of Wrexham
1 October 1996	David Currie	Baron Currie of Marylebone	of Marylebone in the City of Westminster
2 October 1996	John Taylor	Baron Taylor of Warwick	of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire
4 October 1996	Maurice Saatchi	Baron Saatchi	of Staplefield in the County of West Sussex
7 October 1996	Elizabeth Symons	Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean	of Vernham Dean in the County of Hampshire
7 October 1996	John Alderdice	Baron Alderdice	of Knock in the City of Belfast
9 October 1996	Swraj Paul	Baron Paul	of Marylebone in the City of Westminster
11 October 1996	Meta Ramsay	Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale	of Langside in the City of Glasgow
14 October 1996	Joyce Anelay	Baroness Anelay of St Johns	of St Johns in the County of Surrey
15 October 1996	Hazel Byford	Baroness Byford	of Rothley in the County of Leicestershire	5 May 2020 [1]
16 October 1996	Peter Gummer	Baron Chadlington	of Dean in the County of Oxfordshire
17 October 1996	Richard Rogers	Baron Rogers of Riverside	of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	11 May 2021 [3]	18 December 2021
18 October 1996	Ian MacLaurin	Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth	of Knebworth in the County of Hertfordshire	22 December 2017 [1]
21 October 1996	Larry Whitty	Baron Whitty	of Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark
14 February 1997	Raj Bagri	Baron Bagri	of Regent's Park in the City of Westminster	6 July 2010 [2]	26 April 2017
17 February 1997	Audrey Emerton	Baroness Emerton	of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington	1 November 2019 [1]
18 February 1997	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Baron Lloyd-Webber	of Sydmonton in the County of Hampshire	17 October 2017 [1]

‡ former MP
# former MEP

See also

• List of life peerages (complete list of life peerages granted since 1958)
• List of hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage

Notes

1. Husband of Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch (Life Peer, 1975).
2. Son of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.
3. In remainder to the Barony of Teynham (England).
4. Son of Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff (Life Peer, 1966).
5. Father of Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green (Life Peer, 1984).
6. In remainder to the Earldom of Carlisle (England).
7. Father of Francis Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham (Life Peer, 2015).
8. Son of Edwin McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of Moffat (Life Peer, 1980).
9. Son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin.
10. Son of Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (Life Peer, 1964) and father of Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (Life Peer, 2004).
11. Father of David Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton, (Life Peer, 2015).
12. Father of Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington (Life Peer, 1992).
13. Son of Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury (Life Peer, 1962).
14. Wife of John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles.
15. In remainder to the Dukedom of Devonshire (England).
16. Wife of Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, (Law Lord, 1985).
17. Wife of Edward Castle, Baron Castle, (Life Peer, 1974).
18. Father of James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark (Life Peer, 2013).
19. Father of Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (Life Peer, 2010) and former husband of Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings (Life Peer, 1994).
20. Husband of Sue Ryder, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (Life Peer, 1979).
21. Husband of Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote (Life Peer, 2001).
22. Son of Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie, succeeded as 4th viscount in 1997.
23. Son of Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Viscount Ridley.
24. Daughter of James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff (Life Peer, 1987).
25. Former wife of David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale (Life Peer, 1991).
26. Daughter of John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (Life Peer, 1972) and wife of Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham and Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe (Life Peer, 2015).
27. In remainder to the Earldom of Hopetoun (Scotland).
28. Husband of Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley (Life Peer, 2000).

References

1. In accordance with Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
2. In accordance with Section 42(1) of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.
3. In accordance with Section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
4. Under the terms of the House of Lords voluntary retirement scheme.