What is Lords Temporal?
The '''Lords Temporal''' are secular members of the [[House of Lords]], the upper house of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]]. The term is used to create a difference between these members — who are either [[life peer]]s or [[hereditary peer]]s - and the [[Bishop]]s, who are called Lords Spiritual.<ref name= Blackstone>{{cite book |last=Blackstone |first=William |date=January 1, 1836 |title=Commentaries on the Laws of England |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lFDAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA3-PA155-IA3 |location=London |publisher=Clarendon Press at Oxford |page=156 |isbn=978-1241049874 |author-link=}}</ref><ref name= Cobbett>{{cite book |last=Cobbett |first=William |date=1803 |title=Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England. From the Norman conquest, in 1066. To the year, 1803 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001746911 |location=London |publisher=T.C. Hansard |page=135 |isbn= |author-link=William Cobbett}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{UK-stub}} [[Category:United Kingdom nobility]] [[Category:House of Lords]]