{"title":"The United Kingdom's House of Lords and Baroness Trixie Gardner (1927-2024).","authors":"Stanley Gelbier","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2024.072.03.219","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Few in the UK, let alone foreigners understand the British Parliamentary system and the nobility. This paper outlines the origins and roles of the Houses of Commons and Lords. It discusses the hereditary system and an important development, Life Peerages. In particular it showcases the life of a Australian dentist who became a Life Peer, Baroness Gardner of Parkes.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":"72 3","pages":"219-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the history of dentistry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2024.072.03.219","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Few in the UK, let alone foreigners understand the British Parliamentary system and the nobility. This paper outlines the origins and roles of the Houses of Commons and Lords. It discusses the hereditary system and an important development, Life Peerages. In particular it showcases the life of a Australian dentist who became a Life Peer, Baroness Gardner of Parkes.