Dulwich is an area in south London,England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark,with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth,and consists of Dulwich Village,East Dulwich,West Dulwich,and the Southwark half of Herne Hill. Dulwich lies in a valley between the neighbouring districts of Camberwell,Crystal Palace,Denmark Hill,Forest Hill,Peckham,Sydenham Hill,and Tulse Hill.
Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy,Baron McAvoy,was a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2010 until his death in 2024. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Rutherglen from 1987 to 2005,and Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2005 to 2010.
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew,Baron Bew,is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979,and is currently Professor of Irish Politics,a position he has held since 1991.
Ruth Lynn Deech,Baroness Deech,DBE is a British academic,lawyer,bioethicist and politician,most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA),from 1994 to 2002,and as the former Principal of St Anne's College,Oxford. Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords (2005–) and chaired the Bar Standards Board (2009–2014).
Terence Langley Higgins,Baron Higgins,is a British Conservative Party politician and Commonwealth Games silver medalist winner for England. He also competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss,Baroness Butler-Sloss,GBE,PC is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004,when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007,she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana,Princess of Wales,and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date,and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
Alleyn's School is a 4–18 co-educational,independent,day school and sixth form in Dulwich,London,England. It is a registered charity and was originally part of Edward Alleyn's College of God's Gift charitable foundation,which also included James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS) and Dulwich College.
The House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC) is an independent advisory non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom with oversight of some aspects of the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It has two roles:
Major General John Mark Lancaster,Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton,is a British Conservative Party politician,a Member of the House of Lords and a British Army reserve officer,who has served as Director Reserves since October 2023.
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh,Baron Oxburgh,is an English geologist,geophysicist and politician. Lord Oxburgh is well known for his work as a public advocate in both academia and the business world in addressing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative energy sources as well as his negative views on the consequences of current oil consumption.
Alan Henry Brooke,3rd Viscount Brookeborough,is a Northern Irish peer and landowner. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords;he sits as a crossbencher. He is the current Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh.
Dulwich was a borough constituency in the Dulwich area of South London,which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Norman Reginald Warner,Baron Warner,is a British member of the House of Lords. A career civil servant from 1960,he was created a life peer in 1998. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Health from 2003 to 2007,and a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2005 to 2007. He has also been an adviser to a number of consulting companies. On 19 October 2015,Lord Warner resigned the Labour whip and became a Non-affiliated member of the House of Lords.
John Roundell Palmer,4th Earl of Selborne,,was a British peer,ecological expert,and businessman. He was one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the enactment of the House of Lords Act 1999,sitting as a Conservative. He re-designated as non-affiliated in September 2019 and retired from the House on 26 March 2020.
Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders,was an English biologist,sociologist,academic,and academic administrator. He was Director of the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1957.
Ian McColl,Baron McColl of Dulwich,is a British surgeon,professor,politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. McColl was made a life peer for his work for disabled people in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1989,which was gazetted on 29 July 1989 with the style and title of Baron McColl of Dulwich,of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major from 1994 to 1997 for which he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1997.
Air Marshal Sir Christopher Nigel Harper,is a senior Royal Air Force officer,who served as the UK Military Representative to NATO and the European Union from 2011 to 2013 and as Director General of the NATO International Military Staff from 2013 to 2016. He was previously Deputy Commander Allied Joint Force Command at Brunssum in the Netherlands (2009–11),and Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group in the UK (2007–09).
Donald Thomas Younger Curry,Baron Curry of Kirkharle,is a British farmer and businessman who is the former chair of NFU Mutual (2003-2011) and non-executive chair of the Better Regulation Executive,and a member of the House of Lords.
As part of the British honours system,Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative,operational honours,political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Jane Ramsey,Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath is a British politician and health adviser. She chairs the board of trustees of the national charity Young Epilepsy,and was a senior adviser on standards and ethics to the Labour Party and a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Ramsey has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.
