Category
page 1Literary peers

Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
Benjamin Disraeli
British statesman (1804–1881)

Alfred Tennyson
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
François de La Rochefoucauld
French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
British statesman and author (1803–1873)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)
Jeffrey Archer
English author and former politician (born 1940)

Ruth Rendell
British writer (1930-2015)

P. D. James
English crime writer (1920-2014)

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
French writer (1675-1755)

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
Irish writer and dramatist (1878-1957)

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
English poet, and peer of the realm (1647-1680)
Julian Fellowes
English actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and screenwriter
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
English politician and historian (1609–1674)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era (1550-1604)
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
English statesman and poet
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
English politician (1554-1628)
Lord Berners
British composer, writer, painter, politician, novelist and autobiographer (1883-1950)
John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
British poet (1835-95)

Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
British peer and politician (born 1927)