peerage

JK Rowling has revealed she turned down two offers of a peerage in the House of Lords and would turn down a third.

Owen became the youngest person ever to receive a life peerage, at the age of 29, after just six years at Westminster in relatively junior roles.

Britten was later created a life peer, the first musician or composer to be elevated to the peerage.

Viscount Stansgate, whose father Tony Benn renounced his peerage to sit in the Commons, is one of two Labour hereditary peers.

Granted a peerage in 2011, she went to the House of Lords where, as Baroness Morgan of Ely, she was a shadow minister for Wales.