Former Sutherland MP John Thurso elected a hereditary peer by electorate of three
Former Liberal Democrat MP John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso will return to the House of Lords after winning a vote held by three peers.
Thurso, who held the Caithness and Sutherland seat until last May had previously been a Lord until Labour abolished many of the hereditary peers in 1999.
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An exclusive ballot of the three current Lib Dem hereditary peers took place after the death of Lord Avebury triggered a by election. Earl of Oxford and Asquith, the Earl of Glasgow and Lord Addington had a field of seven candidates to choose from.
Candidates were invited to submit a 75-word statement about why they should become a peer, but Thurso declined. Nevertheless he beat the six other candidates to win all three votes.
Lord Thurso was appointed chair of VisitScotland in March.
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