Chamber of Peers

The Chamber of Peers or House of Peers refers to the legislative upper house in several countries with a peerage:

• Chamber of Peers (France) from 1814 to 1848
• House of Peers (Japan) from 1889 to 1947
• Chamber of Most Worthy Peers (Portugal) from 1826–1838 and again from 1842–1910
• Chamber of Peers (Spain) (Estamento de Próceres), from 1834 to 1836
• United Kingdom :
  • The British House of Lords is known as the "House of Peers" for ceremonial purposes
  • The pre-1801 Irish House of Lords
  • Cromwell's Other House or House of Peers (1658–1659) during the final years of the Protectorate
  • Reform of the House of Lords