Lords Temporal

What was it, the Lords temporal and spiritual, that's what they call themselves.

The other members are called the Lords Temporal.

The largest group of Lords Temporal, and indeed of the whole House, are life peers.

Lords Temporal assume precedence similar to precedence outside Parliament.

The Lords Temporal.

For the first time, the Lords Temporal were more numerous than the Lords Spiritual.

The lords spiritual were chosen by rotation and the lords temporal were elected from among the peers of Ireland.

The Lords Temporal follow, among whom can be seen the Lord Steward (carrying his white wand of office).

Most non-party "lords temporal" are crossbenchers.

The house consists of two very different types of member, the Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual.

"The lords temporal and spiritual who're concerned know only that I'd fain honor a pledge to a comrade, and that my confessor gives me leave.

Before 1707 the Lords Temporal were all members of the Peerage of England (which for this purpose included Wales).

The Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal are considered separate "estates", but they sit, debate and vote together.

Lords Spiritual serve as long as they continue to occupy their ecclesiastical positions, but Lords Temporal serve for life.

Early in England's history, Lords Spiritual-including lesser clergy such as abbots-outnumbered Lords Temporal.

Present were 14 Lords Temporal and 11 Lords Spiritual from the Parliament of Ireland, along with 226 commoners.

Would you make confession of your sins, Edward Martin, to the lords temporal and secular of Grayson, and seek God's mercy upon yourself?"

Since the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Lords Temporal have been the most numerous group in the House of Lords.

Membership of the House of Lords is made up of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal.

In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Lords Temporal are secular members of the House of Lords.

These members represented subjects of the Crown who were not Lords Temporal or Spiritual, who themselves sat in the House of Lords.

Representing the landed aristocracy, Lords Temporal were generally Tory (later Conservative) who wanted to maintain the status quo and resisted progressive measures such as extending the franchise.

Former Archbishops of Canterbury, having reverted to the status of bishop but who are no longer diocesans, are invariably given life peerages and sit as Lords Temporal.

In Burke's 1787 coining he would have been making reference to the traditional three estates of Parliament: The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal and the Commons.