Based on data from unofficial sources including Operation Black Vote, the House of Commons Library estimated in a research briefing published in September 2022 that there were more than 60 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of September 2022.
While the House of Commons has a defined number of members, the number of members in the House of Lords is not fixed. Currently, it has 784 sitting members.
James Townsend (baptised 8 February 1737 – 1 July 1787) was an English Whig politician and Lord Mayor of London in 1772–73. He is believed to be England's first black member of parliament and the first black Lord Mayor of London.
Government data about the UK's different ethnic groups. 82% of people in England and Wales are white, and 18% belong to a black, Asian, mixed or other ethnic group (2021 Census data).
African migrants represent a small but growing population in Australia, with 388,179 recoded in the latest Census (about 1.7 per cent of the total population). In South Australia, there are 20,238 African migrants, 33 per cent of whom were born in South Africa and the remainder coming from 45 different countries.
In the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated individual ancestries as a proportion of the total population were: English (33%) Australian (29.9%)
Just over 1% of Scottish population identified as African, Caribbean or Black. Under 1% identified as Mixed, Multiple or Other ethnicity, including Arab.
As a French citizen, your allegiance to France trumps all other aspects of your identity. In fact, it is illegal for the French government to collect information about the racial and ethnic origin of its multicultural population on the national census, though approximately 5 percent of the country is black.
There is also a small community of British aristocrats that are of partially black descent. Emma Thynn (née McQuiston), the Marchioness of Bath as the wife of the 8th Marquess, belongs to this sub-group.
Based on data from unofficial sources including Operation Black Vote, the House of Commons Library estimated in a research briefing published in September 2022 that there were more than 60 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of September 2022.
There are traditionally 3 ways to become a Lord or Lady in the UK: Marry a person with the current title and family inheritance of Lord or Lady. Receiving an appointment to the House of Lords (which can only be achieved through nomination by the Prime Minister and then confirmation from the Queen).
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Youngest member of the House of Lords
The youngest member of the House is Lord Harlech (born 1 July 1986), a hereditary peer who was elected at a by-election under the House of Lords Act 1999 in July 2021 aged 35.
The Black population now accounts for 3.5% of Canada's total population and 15.6% of the population defined as a visible minority. According to the population projections from Statistics Canada, the Black population could increase in the future and might represent between 5.0% and 5.6% of Canada's population by 2036.
All together, from these estimates and statistics there are roughly 9,6 million Black people in Europe, with over two-thirds from the United Kingdom or France. If North Africans, who are of Berber or Arab ancestry, were to be included, this estimate would double to nearly 22 million.
The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, with Mandarin being the world's most spoken language in terms of native speakers. The world's population is predominantly urban and suburban, and there has been significant migration toward cities and urban centres.
In Wales the percentage of the population who identified within: the "Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh" ethnic groups was 2.9% (89,000) "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African" was 0.9% (28,000)
In 1788, a majority in Scotland's highest court ruled that Joseph Knight, who had been brought from Jamaica by his owner Sir John Wedderburn, could not be forced to return as a slave to the Caribbean. Unlike the Mansfield judgement in England, the ruling declared unequivocally that slavery could not exist in Scotland.
The original Australians were dark-skinned, but a large proportion of the country's Aborigines today are of mixed blood, and many appear to be white.
25,809,973 (July 2021 est.) English 25.9%, Australian 25.4%, Irish 7.5%, Scottish 6.4%, Italian 3.3%, German 3.2%, Chinese 3.1%, Indian 1.4%, Greek 1.4%, Dutch 1.2%, other 15.8% (includes Australian Aboriginal .
Melbourne Cup, annual horse race, first held in 1861, that is the most important Australian Thoroughbred race of the year and one of the most prestigious races in the world. The Melbourne Cup takes place at the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on the first Tuesday of November, which is a public holiday in the city.