Prime Minister of the United Kingdom retirement from the Commons, which elevates the individual to the House of Lords. Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an earldom, with Churchill offered a dukedom. From the 1960s onward, life peerages were preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home. Edward Heath did not accept a peerage of any kind and nor have any of the Prime Ministers to retire since 1990; although Heath and Major were later appointed as Knights
Harold Tucker Harold Tucker Harold Tucker (1930-October 2015) was a British politician who was the Conservative Leader of the opposition on Manchester City Council from 1973-1990 and Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1984-1985. He was also Conservative Councillor for the Barlow moor Ward from 1959-1990. Tucker ran against Former Prime minister Harold Wilson at the 1964 General election in Huyton, but was defeated and continued to serve as a councillor. Following his political career he became trustee of Salford university. He was born in Willesden Green, London, and joined the Royal Air Force as a young man. Tucker was elected Lord Mayor