Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr,13th Marquess of Lothian,Baron Kerr of Monteviot,,commonly known as Michael Ancram,was a British politician and peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited the marquessate in 2004,upon the death of his father.
Patrick Thomas Cormack,Baron Cormack,was a British politician,historian,journalist and author. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 40 years,from 1970 to 2010. Cormack was a member of the Conservative Party and was seen as a one-nation conservative.
Peter Temple-Morris,Baron Temple-Morris was a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster in 1974;he stood down in 2001 after changing parties. He sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer.
In UK politics,John Cradock Maples,Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West from 1983 to 1992 and Stratford-upon-Avon from 1997 to 2010.
John David Beckett Taylor,Baron Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1996,at the age of 44,he became one of the youngest people in the upper house.
George Turner is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Ivor Seward Richard,Baron Richard,was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 until 1974. He was also a member of the European Commission and latterly sat as a life peer in the House of Lords.
In the United Kingdom,life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited,in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister. With the exception of the Dukedom of Edinburgh awarded for life to Prince Edward in 2023,all life peerages conferred since 2009 have been created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 with the rank of baron and entitle their holders to sit and vote in the House of Lords,presuming they meet qualifications such as age and citizenship. The legitimate children of a life peer appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958 are entitled to style themselves with the prefix "The Honourable",although they cannot inherit the peerage itself. Prior to 2009,life peers of baronial rank could also be so created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 for senior judges.
The Carlton Club is a private members' club in the St James's area of London,England. It was the original home of the Conservative Party before the creation of Conservative Central Office. Membership of the club is by nomination and election only.
Merlin Charles Sainthill Hanbury-Tracy,7th Baron Sudeley,was a British hereditary peer,author,and monarchist. In 1941,at the age of two,he succeeded his first cousin once removed,Richard Hanbury-Tracy,6th Baron Sudeley,to the Barony of Sudeley and until the reforms of House of Lords Act 1999,he regularly sat as a hereditary peer.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
Syed Salah Kamall,Baron Kamall is a British politician and academic,who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care (2021–22).
Harmar Harmar-Nicholls,Baron Harmar-Nicholls,known as Sir Harmar Nicholls,1st Baronet,from 1960 to 1975,was a British Conservative Party politician.
Godfrey Elton,1st Baron Elton,was a British historian,academic and Labour Party politician. Having served in the British Army during the First World War,he was elected a fellow of The Queen's College,Oxford in 1919 and appointed a lecturer in modern history by the University of Oxford. In 1934,he entered the House of Lords,having been made a peer by Ramsay MacDonald. He stepped down from his university posts in 1939 and became secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Daniel William Finkelstein,Baron Finkelstein,is a British journalist,author,political advisor and politician. He is a former executive editor of The Times, where he remains a weekly political columnist,and has been a regular columnist at The Jewish Chronicle since 2010. Finkelstein was formerly an advisor to Prime Minister John Major and leader of the Conservative Party William Hague. Since 2013 he has sat as a Conservative Peer of the House of Lords.
The 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in two supplements to The London Gazette of 1 August 1997 and marked the May 1997 resignation of the Prime Minister,John Major.
Peter Selwyn Gummer,Baron Chadlington FCIPR FIoD FCinstM FRSA is an English businessman and former head of Huntsworth,one of the largest lobbying firms in the United Kingdom.
Guy Vaughan Black,Baron Black of Brentwood is Deputy Chairman of the Telegraph Media Group.
On 25 June 1990,the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at the Carlton Club,a club in London popular among MPs and supporters of the ruling Conservative Party. The bombing injured 20 people,one of whom,Lord Kaberry of Adel,died a year later. The ground floor collapsed to the basement and windows were shattered. The blast was felt up to half a mile away.
