Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Lords

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Coverage of the Lords is currently substantially behind that of the Commons, so bear in mind that any queries may well return incomplete data.

As the Lords have a different approach to membership than the Commons, there is no need for per-term membership items, though if party affiliation changes then a new P39 item should be created. Each Lord should have:

• position held (P39):member of the House of Lords (Q18952564)

• parliamentary group (P4100) - use crossbencher (Q125047) or Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords (Q11795138) rather than "independent"
• start time (P580) - the date of succession, or of the letters patent creating a peerage
• end time (P582) - the date this period of office ended
• end cause (P1534) - the reason for ending this period (almost always "death in office" or "changing party", until it became possible to stand down in the modern period)
• subject has role (P2868) - to indicate the reason by which they held a seat in the Lords; hereditary peer (Q808719), life peer (Q2914468), representative peer (Q7314258), Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (Q610320), Lords Spiritual (Q2915459) etc.

This last is not very well-developed and may be refined to (eg) indicate the difference between distinct classes of Lords Spiritual.

Anyone entitled to sit is modelled as a member of the Lords even if they are known not to have taken their seat; in this case, a significant event (P793) qualifier is appropriate. However, hereditary peers should not be shown as members of the Lords after 1999 unless they specifically held one of the elected hereditary places.

• To do - for hereditaries and bishops, work out a suitable qualifier for linking the "enabling title" to the Lords membership

Links to titles

Titles themselves should be listed separately using noble title (P97) with date qualifiers. For hereditary peers, this should ideally be the specific title (eg Duke of Montrose (Q59106)) but failing that a generic value like baron (Q165503) is practical. A follows/followed by qualifier would be appropriate, as would a series ordinal.

Where someone held multiple titles (including subsidiary titles) then they can all be listed as separate values. This model is preferable given that titles sometimes pass by different routes. It may be appropriate to give the "senior" title a preferred value.

• To do - work out how to show writs of acceleration and courtesy titles

For life peers, a single claim with life peer (Q2914468) is suitable - we don't need individual items for each life peerage.

• To do - work out a data model for titles themselves