What is the House of Lords in the British Parliament?

 

The upper house of Parliament called the House of Lords is comprised of 852 members; the membership of the House of Lords used to be over 1000 but this was reduced to 852 by the House of Lords Act of 1999 which reduced the number of hereditary peers to 92 The breakdown of the House of Lords’ membership is as follows: 774 Lords Temporal; hereditary peers, including some women and life peers or commoners, made peers of the Crown under the Life Peerage Act of 1958, and whose titles expire upon their death. 12 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary [law lords who must have been barristers for at least fifteen years and have held high judicial office for at least two years before their appointment; and 26 Lords Spiritual; bishops of the Church of England or Anglican Church, namely: the archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester and twenty-one other bishops in the order of their seniority.

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