Deb 07 February 1922 vol 49 c53

The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland minutes of the election of the Earl of Airlie, the Earl of Leven and Melville, and the Lord Belhaven and Stenton, as three of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, 13th January last, in room of the Earl of Northesk, the Lord Balfour of Burleigh and the Lord Belhaven and Stenton, deceased; and separate return by the Lord Clerk Register of certain titles of Peerage called at the said election, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted at any election for fifty years then last past (pursuant to Act 11 and 15 Vict. chap. 87). Ordered, That the said minutes of election, &c., be printed.

The Earl of Airlie—Took the Oath.

The Lord Foley—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his cousin.

The Lord Inverclyde—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

The Earl de la Warr—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

The Lord Belhaven and Stenton—Took the Oath.