LIFE PEERAGES
SIR,—Writing in your last issue " Janus " comments on the recent appointment of four new Labour peers and concludes: " It is a pity the expedient of creating life-peers was not adopted in this case. Since it is specially stated that the four peerages are simply a matter of temporary convenience, there seems no good reason why their holders' descendants to all eternity should be ennobled." The italics are mine.
I am led to ask your correspondent two questions: (i) When was the last occasion that a peerage, other 'han that of a law-lord, was created for life?
(2) Why should the descendants of any holder be ennobled to [" Janus " writes (t) I suggested not that life Peers ever had been, or could at present be, created, but that power to create them should be taken and used. (2) Why indeed?]
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