Peter I

Peter I (Peter Joseph Lawton; 12 March 1900 – 27 December 1979) was King of the North-West of England from 14th April 1921 till 1974.

He was the sixth son of Major General Frederick Elijah Lawton, and the grandson of the once reigning North-West monarch, King Edward I. From the time of his birth, his family was out of the North West monarch system due to Edward's abdication.

His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–18) the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He was plagued by illness throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.