Baroness Warsi, one of several Muslim females in the House of Lords.

[5] It was primarily England's archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors and noblemen who attended and formed the House during it's infancy.[5] By the early 15th century attendance "was on an almost entirely hereditary basis" with almost no new lords appointed in subject to entry.[5] Despite birth determining peerage, Britain's Muslim community however, can directly trace an organic heritage to this system of Lordship and hereditary peerage through Henry Stanley (also known later as Abdul Rahman), who was the 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, who was a convert to the Islamic faith during the Victorian era. Modern Muslim peerages however came as a result of England's turbulent history between the 16th and 20th Centuries.[5] The 18th Century was especially significant for all peers, as it was in this period when drastic changes were introduced to the way the Lords operated when England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland formed a Union based upon the Acts of Union (1707) (Scotland) and Acts of Union (Ireland) (1800).[5] However the most important reforms would come later for minorities in the 20th Century, where acts such as the Life Peerages Act (1958) and the House of Lords Act (1999), finally allowed minorities to enter the House of Lords in significant numbers.[5] In total there have been at least seventeen known Muslim Lords and Baronesses. The majority of these are of Pakistani background, but the Lords and Baronesses contains more diversity, compared to MP's. Muslims are also present in the House of Lords, which is known to have a long history stretching back to the 14th Century.It was primarily England's archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors and noblemen who attended and formed the House during it's infancy.By the early 15th century attendancewith almost no new lords appointed in subject to entry.Despite birth determining peerage, Britain's Muslim community however, can directly trace an organic heritage to this system of Lordship and hereditary peerage through Henry Stanley (also known later as), who was the 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, who was a convert to the Islamic faith during the Victorian era. Modern Muslim peerages however came as a result of England's turbulent history between the 16th and 20th Centuries.The 18th Century was especially significant for all peers, as it was in this period when drastic changes were introduced to the way the Lords operated when England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland formed a Union based upon theandHowever the most important reforms would come later for minorities in the 20th Century, where acts such as theand the), finally allowed minorities to enter the House of Lords in significant numbers.In total there have been at least seventeen known Muslim Lords and Baronesses. The majority of these are of Pakistani background, but the Lords and Baronesses contains more diversity, compared to MP's.