Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Representative peer

Representative peer
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests.


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The result was: not scheduled by BencherliteTalk 12:03, 12 February 2013‎ (UTC)

 In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Members of the Peerage of England, Peerage of Great Britain and Peerage of the United Kingdom held the right to sit in the House of Lords; they did not elect a limited group of representatives.

Representative peers were introduced in 1707, when England and Scotland were united into the Kingdom of Great Britain. At the time, there were 168 English and 154 Scottish peers, though the English population was estimated at roughly five times greater than the Scottish population. The English peers feared that the House of Lords would be swamped by the Scottish element, and consequently arranged for the election of a small number of representative peers to represent Scotland. A similar arrangement was adopted when the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merged into the United Kingdom in 1801.


 * Article was already at FAR when nominated. Closed with the comment "remove representative peer, which is at FAR. If it survives FAR, I'll happily run it on the main page". After it kept its status at FAR, the article was TFA on June 14, 2013.