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Tears for peers: Hereditary Lords face up to extinction

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87 hereditary peers will be kicked out of the House of Lords this year if the government's bill passes.

The Earl of Devon Charlie Courtenay is one of the 87 remaining hereditary peers.

He says he will not miss commuting 672 miles there and back every week.

Lord Thurso , a Liberal Democrat , says he has no idea as from the boot without getting on a boat.

Lord Howe inherited his title from a son-less second cousin in 1984 , along with Penn House , a stately Buckinghamshire home.

Just a few years after becoming a peer, he was made a minister by then Conservative prime minister John Major .

In 2012 , he worked on a doomed plan that would have seen the Lords made up of a combination of elected and appointed peers.

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