I do not see that the choice exercised by those who have decided to accept a life peerage will be affected in any way.
Even the patronage of appointment under the life peerage system does not give the same degree of independence.
I do not know anyone who would accept a life peerage but would not accept a hereditary one.
But surely it will be voluntary whether he accepts the life peerage or not.
But that is not completely effective to confer a life peerage upon a woman.
The life peerage would merge in the hereditary earldom.
Besides, there is nothing whatever to prevent a life peerage being conferred upon a young man, provided that he has something to contribute.
The conclusion was that no life peerage had been conferred for 400 years and that the prerogative power had fallen into desuetude.
