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.
Dulwich College is a 2–18 private,day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich,London,England. As a public school,it began as the College of God's Gift,founded in 1619 by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn,with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars. It began to grow into a large school from 1857 and took its current form in 1870,when it moved into its current premises.
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.
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston,Baron Winston is a British professor,medical doctor,scientist,television presenter and Labour peer.
The Lords Temporal are secular members of the House of Lords,the upper house of the British Parliament. These can be either life peers or hereditary peers,although the hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords was abolished for all but ninety-two peers during the 1999 reform of the House of Lords. The term is used to differentiate these members from the Lords Spiritual,who sit in the House as a consequence of being bishops in the Church of England.
Terence Langley Higgins,Baron Higgins,is a British former 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.
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:to recommend at least two people a year for appointment as non-party-political life peers who sit on the crossbenches;and to vet for propriety most other nominations for membership of the House of Lords,including those nominated by the UK political parties,nominations put forward by the Prime Minister for ministerial appointment in the House of Lords,for public service,and nominations in the honours lists.
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.
Lionel Tarassenko,Baron Tarassenko,,is a French-born British engineer,academic and life peer. A leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare,he has been the president of Reuben College,Oxford,since 2019.
Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya,Baron Bhattacharyya,was a British-Indian engineer,educator and government advisor. In 1980,he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. In 2004,he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords.
The reform of the House of Lords,the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,has been a topic of discussion in UK politics for more than a century. Multiple governments have attempted reform,beginning with the introduction of the Parliament Act 1911 by the incumbent Liberal Government. When the Labour Party came to power in the 1997 general election,the Blair government passed the House of Lords Act 1999. On 7 November 2001 the government undertook a public consultation. This helped to create a public debate on the issue of Lords reform,with 1,101 consultation responses and numerous debates in Parliament and the media. However,no consensus on the future of the upper chamber emerged.
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is the Parliament of the United Kingdom's in-house source of independent,balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. POST serves both Houses of Parliament.
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 former civil servant and 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 Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2005 to 2007. He has also been an adviser to a number of consulting companies. In October 2015,Warner resigned the Labour whip and became a non-affiliated and then crossbench member of the House of Lords,serving until his retirement in 2024.
Gerald Francis Bowden was a British Conservative MP,who represented Dulwich from 1983 until 1992. He was defeated by future Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell in the 1992 general election.
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.
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.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Edward Fremantle,OBE,DL,FRCS,FRCP was a British physician and Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans from 1919 until his death.
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).
