Deletion of Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury

Comment: I think I'm coming down on the side of keeping articles on peers or their heirs, whether or not they sit in the House of Lords, as all their predecessors did (and therefore all meet ) and it would be slightly odd and not of value to the project to break the chain of Wikipedia articles
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: plainly notable. Peers are not inherently non-notable because they do not have a seat in the House of Lords. Like the rest of humanity, they need only meet the test of , which is not about being a deserving human being but about the availability of reliable sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)