In order of election, with the stage at which they were successful (those who got a peerage are highlighted in Lords colours);
- David Bellotti - stage 1
- Ramesh Dewan - stage 1
- Tony Greaves - stage 1 (31 March 2000)
- Rupert Redesdale -stage 1 (31 March 2000)
- Roger Roberts - stage 1 (30 April 2004)
- Lindsay Granshaw - stage 29 (31 March 2000)
- Viv Bingham - stage 57
- Jane Bonham-Carter - stage 79 (30 April 2004)
- Elizabeth Shields - stage 84
- Alex Wilcock - stage 85
- Joan Walmsley - stage 91 (31 March 2000)
- Ros Scott - stage 98 (31 March 2000)
- Fiona Hall - stage 100
- Candy Piercey - stage 108
- Flo Clucas - stage 115
- Philip Goldenberg - stage 119
- Monroe Palmer - stage 121
- Sharon Bowles - stage 122
- Jonathan Fryer - stage 124
- Val Cox - stage 125
- Flick Rea - stage 125
- Michael Steed - stage 128
- David Williams - stage 128
- John Tilley - stage 131
- Sue Baring - stage 132
- Hilary Stephenson - stage 132
- Atul Vadher - stage 132
- Paula Yates - stage 132
- Robert Adamson - stage 133
- Michael Anderson - stage 133
- Sarah Boad - stage 135
- David Boyle - stage 135
- Alan Butt Philip - stage 135
- Ruth Coleman - stage 135
- Gordon Lishman - stage 135
- Keith House - stage 136
- Bill Le Breton - stage 136
- Dee Doocey - stage 139
- Iain King - stage 139
- Rowland Morgan - stage 139
- Alison Willott - stage 139
- Ralph Bancroft - stage 140
- Frances David - stage 140
- Jock Gallagher - stage 140
- Josephine Hayes - stage 140
- Matthew Oakeshott - stage 140 (31 March 2000)
- David Shutt - stage 140 (31 March 2000)
- Paul Tilsley - stage 140
- James Walsh - stage 140
- Joanne Whitehouse - stage 140
So, we see that nine of the fifty got a peerage, seven of them from the top twelve. The future Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay and Lord Shutt of Greetland, just scraped in, but as they're apparently amongst the twenty-five most influential Liberal Democrats, they would probably be judged to have been worth it.
An interesting sidenote is the position of one Alex Wilcock. I wonder how different the world would have been if you'd been ennobled, Alex. Would that have brought us the Honourable Millennium Elephant? Also, the two contenders at numbers 13 and 18 didn't do too badly, gaining seats in the European Parliament in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
2 comments:
Mark
Nice bit of research. The interim list was a bit of an obsession of mine, and reminds me of the frequent efforts of Donnachadh McCarthy to have the proposal debated in the first place, and then enforced by the Parliamentary Ombudsman (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3617328.stm), before he flounced out of the Party. I even drafted the amendment debated in 2004 calling for a new list to be elected by members in the European regions, to try and address the London and South-East centric nature of the 1999 list.
I still think that, until the Lords are properly elected (which the Tories will have no interest in promoting), all we can do is make sure our own procedures are properly democratic, and re-constitute the list every electoral cycle on a regional basis.
Lord Daddy Alex? That would be worth a king's ransom in Doctor Who DVDs...
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