Lifelong peer service in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a system of raising subjects to the nobility of peer dignity, whose title cannot be inherited, unlike hereditary peer . Nowadays, life peers, always elevated to the rank of baron , are erected in accordance with the 1958 Life Peer Act and give their holders the right to sit in the House of Lords if they meet such requirements as age and citizenship. The legitimate children of a lifelong peer have the right to title themselves with the prefix " Honorable ", although they cannot inherit peerhood itself.
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