Although deaths of peers without successors reduce the House of Lords to osme extent year by year, there has been a remarkable increase in the number of those eligible for the ordinary business of the House of Lords within the last quarter century. In the year 1900 there were 574 peers, including bishops, life peers and representative peers, entitled Ito vote in a division in the Lords. The number has now risen to 715.
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Auckland Star, Issue LVII, 1 March 1926, Page 10
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