Lord Temporal

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This article is about the secular members of the British House of Lords. For the fictional lords of time, see Time Lords.

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In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Lords Temporal are secular members of the House of Lords. The term is used to differentiate lords—who are either life peers or hereditary peers, although the hereditary rights to the House of Lords was abolished in 1999—from the Lords Spiritual, who sit in the House as bishops in the Church of England.

Before the recent reform of the House of Lords, all peers were (potentially) members of the House of Lords, and all were Lords Temporal in this sense. The ongoing reforms limit membership in the Lords to life peers and a number of elected hereditary peers.