Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 excepted hereditary peers from the house, he was an active member of the House of Lords.[1] Lord Cromwell lost his seat due to the Act.
On 9 April 2014, he was elected to sit in the House of Lords at a crossbenchhereditary peers' by-election, now making him one of the 92 excepted hereditary peers.[2] He sits in the Lords as Lord Cromwell.
Coat of arms
Coat of arms of Godfrey Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell
st: issuant from a Ducal Coronet Or a Plume of five Ostrich Feathers Argent (Copley); 2nd: A Goat's Head erased Argent armed maned and gorged with a Mural Crown Gules (Bewicke)
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Chief Gules overall a Bend Azure (Cromwell); 2nd and 3rd, Checky Or and Azure a Chief Ermine (Tatshall); overall an Inescutcheon quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Cross Moline Sable (Copley); 2nd and 3rd, Argent five Lozenges in fess Gules each charged with a Mullet of the field between three Boars' Heads erased Sable (Bewicke)
Supporters
On either side a Lion Sable each charged on the shoulder with a representation of the Treasurer's Purse Or (being the badge of Ralph Cromwell, 4th Baron Cromwell)
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed barony of greater precedence ^* Also a Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland