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'Peers Spiritual in the House of Lords in 1894', (1901). In the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, the 26 bishops of the established Church of England are known as the The Lords Spiritual. There are also bishops who sit by right of a peerage. Some find it unacceptable that the UK is the only Western democracy to give religious representatives the automatic right to sit in the legislature. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]