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The code of conduct for the House of Lords states that members "must never accept any financial inducement as an incentive or reward for exercising parliamentary influence." But peers are unelected, don't receive a salary, and are free to pursue outside income; around 140 have "outside consultancies." There are...
"I want to stress that this house, despite what people may think from the coverage in the past week, is a house full of people who in the vast majority of cases do a bloody good job," Baroness Royall told the Sunday Times on Feb. 1. Despite the bad press...
"Sit down on a bench in a park with a person on either side of you," says Penelope Slade-Royall, director of the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. "If you're not overweight, statistically speaking, both of the other people sitting with you are."
While the Royall chair is traditionally held by the Dean of the Law School, the current dean, Elena Kagan, declined the chair because of its history.
Apart from Royall, several other slave owners and traders served as professors, donated to the University, or sat on its two governing boards.