Chamber of Most Worthy Peers

Chamber of the Most Worthy Peers of the Realm Câmara dos Digníssimos Pares do Reino
Type
Type	Upper house of the Cortes Gerais
History
Founded	1826
Disbanded	1910
Leadership
First President (Lord Speaker) of the Chamber	Nuno Caetano Álvares Pereira de Melo, 6th Duke of Cadaval
Last President (Lord Speaker) of the Chamber	Gonçalo Pereira da Silva de Sousa e Menezes, 3rd Count of Bertiandos
Seats	90
Meeting place
São Bento Palace Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal

The Chamber of Peers of Portugal, alternatively translatable as the House of Lords and formally styled the Chamber of the Most Worthy Peers of the Realm (Portuguese: Câmara dos Pares or Câmara dos Digníssimos Pares do Reino), was the upper house of the Cortes Gerais, the legislature of the Kingdom of Portugal during most of the constitutional monarchy period. Members of the Chamber were Peers of the Realm, appointed directly at the pleasure of the Portuguese monarch.