Literary peers

The list Literary peers includes Victor Hugo, Lord Byron, Jeffrey Archer, Julian Fellowes and P.D. James. The list consists of 31 members.

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Victor Hugo

French novelist, poet, and dramatist (1802–1885)

Overview: Victor-Marie Hugo ( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1802

Date of death: 22 May 1885

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Philosophical theists 22T

French writers exiled in Belgium 2T

French spiritualists 8T
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Lord Byron

English Romantic poet (1788–1824)

Overview: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and ...

Date of birth: 22 January 1788

Date of death: 19 April 1824

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Burials at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall 5T

Barons Byron 14T

Coppet group 23T
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Jeffrey Archer

British author and Conservative life peer

Overview: Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, former politician, convicted perjurer, and peer of the realm. Before becoming an author, Archer was ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: British

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 3,688T

People involved in plagiarism controversies 192T

British sportsperson-politicians 102T
4.

Julian Fellowes

English actor, writer, producer and politician

Overview: Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords ...

Date of birth: 11 August 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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People from Chiddingly 13T

20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 220T

British male television writers 435T
5.

P.D. James

British writer

Overview: Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and politician. She rose ...

Date of birth: 3 August 1920

Date of death: 27 November 2014

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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20th-century English women writers 690T

Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

Pseudonymous women writers 644T
6.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)

Overview: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets ...

Date of birth: 6 August 1809

Date of death: 6 October 1892

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Members of The Club 180T

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 18T

English male poets 1,268T
7.

Benjamin Disraeli

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1874 to 1880

Overview: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United ...

Date of birth: 21 December 1804

Date of death: 19 April 1881

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Earls of Beaconsfield 1T

UK MPs who were granted peerages 854T

Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria 353T
8.

François-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

Overview: François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand OLH KOESSH KOSL KOHS KOSM (1768–1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth ...

Date of birth: 4 September 1768

Date of death: 4 July 1848

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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18th-century memoirists 22T

Coppet group 23T

French male essayists 241T
9.

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Novelist

Overview: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1878

Date of death: 25 October 1957

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Barons of Dunsany 10T

19th-century Anglo-Irish people 176T

20th-century Anglo-Irish people 101T
10.

Ruth Rendell

English novelist

Overview: Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

Date of birth: 17 February 1930

Date of death: 2 May 2015

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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20th-century English women writers 690T

21st-century English women writers 392T

Life peers created by Elizabeth II 247T
11.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

17th-century English statesman and poet

Overview: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros, KG, PC, FRS (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet.

Date of birth: 30 January 1628

Date of death: 16 April 1687

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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English duellists 41T

Zimri (king) 2T

Dukes of Buckingham (1623) 2T
12.

Edward de Vere

16th-century English peer and courtier

Overview: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (12 April 1550 – 24 June 1604) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era. Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom ...

Date of birth: 12 April 1550

Date of death: 24 June 1604

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Male

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Court of Elizabeth I 72T

Patrons of the visual arts 9T

17th-century male writers 1,224T
13.

Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners

British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete (1883-1950)

Overview: Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 1883 – 19 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter and aesthete. He is usually referred ...

Date of birth: 1883

Date of death: 1950

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Barons Berners 8T

LGBT classical composers 103T
14.

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

French soldier and diplomat

Overview: Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1675

Date of death: 2 March 1755

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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18th-century memoirists 22T

17th-century French male writers 238T

18th-century French male writers 392T
15.

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

French author of maxims and memoirs (1613–1680)

Overview: François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and M ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1613

Date of death: 17 March 1680

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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17th-century memoirists 11T

17th-century French male writers 238T

Prisoners of the Bastille 48T
16.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

English politician and historian (1609–1674)

Overview: Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP (18 February 1609 – 9 December 1674), was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First ...

Date of birth: 18 February 1609

Date of death: 9 December 1674

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Court of Charles I of England 20T

17th-century English historians 14T

Lords Proprietors of Carolina 13T
17.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

British politician

Overview: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Co ...

Date of birth: 25 May 1803

Date of death: 18 January 1873

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Barons Lytton 1T

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 5T

Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hertfordshire 20T
18.

John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

English poet and courtier (1647–1680)

Overview: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. The Restoration reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1647

Date of death: 26 July 1680

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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17th-century English male writers 128T

17th-century male writers 1,224T

17th-century English poets 141T
19.

Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham

British peer and politician

Overview: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham, KBE, PC (3 October 1927 – 1 December 2021) was a British Conservative politician, hereditary peer, writer and former member of the House of Lords. He was ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1927

Date of death: 1 December 2021

Age: 94 (age at death)

Occupation: Novelist

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Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 162T

20th-century British novelists 1,004T

People educated at Eton College 4,961T
20.

John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley

British poet

Overview: John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (26 April 1835 – 22 November 1895) was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates.

Date of birth: 26 April 1835

Date of death: 22 November 1895

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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19th-century English male writers 472T

19th-century British male writers 668T

English male poets 1,268T