Janet Mary Young,Baroness Young,was a British Conservative Party politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983,first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher.
Jennifer Helen Jones,Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb,is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London from 2003 to 2004. A member of the Green Party of England and Wales,she was until September 2019 the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords.
Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull,2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma,Baroness Brabourne,,was a British peeress and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She was the elder daughter of Admiral of the Fleet the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and of heiress Edwina Ashley. She was the elder sister of Lady Pamela Hicks,a first cousin of Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,and the last surviving baptismal sponsor to King Charles III. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Elspeth Rosamund Morton Howe,Baroness Howe of Idlicote,Lady Howe of Aberavon,was a British life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords (2001–2020) who served in many capacities in public life. As the widow of Geoffrey Howe,she was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right. She was the paternal half-aunt of Queen Camilla.
Detta O'Cathain,Baroness O'Cathain,was an Irish-born British businesswoman and Conservative politician.
Carys Davina Grey-Thompson,Baroness Grey-Thompson,,known as Tanni Grey-Thompson,is a Welsh life peeress,television presenter and former wheelchair racer.
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg,Viscountess Hailsham,Baroness Hogg,is a British economist,journalist,and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.
Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister,Countess of Swinton,Baroness Masham of Ilton,was a British crossbench member of the House of Lords,disability campaigner and Paralympic athlete. She was the founder and life-long president of the Spinal Injuries Association. She was Vice President of the Snowdon Trust,founded by the Earl of Snowdon,which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. Her 53 years' membership of the House of Lords was the longest of any female peer.
Ruth Beatrice Henig,Baroness Henig,was a British academic historian and Labour politician.
Barbara Frances Wootton,Baroness Wootton of Abinger,CH was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was the first of four women to be appointed as a life peer,entitled to serve in the House of Lords,under the Life Peerages Act 1958,after the names of the holders of the first 14 life peerages to be created had been announced on 24 July. She was President of the British Sociological Association from 1959 to 1964.
Evelyn Hester Macleod,Baroness Macleod of Borve DL was a British public servant.
Caroline Valerie Pidgeon,Baroness Pidgeon,,is a British politician. She served as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly from 2010 to 2024,and was a member of the London Assembly (AM) from 2008 to 2024. Pidgeon was a councillor on Southwark London Borough Council from 1998 to 2010 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.
Jennifer Hilton,Baroness Hilton of Eggardon,is a British Labour Party politician and former police officer with the Metropolitan Police. She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Doreen Delceita Lawrence,Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon,,is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence,a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Lawrence was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to community relations in 2003,and was created a life peer in 2013.
Caroline Elizabeth Chisholm,Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen,is a British life peeress and member of the House of Lords,where she currently sits as a non-affiliated member.
Susan Mary Hayman,Baroness Hayman of Ullock is a British politician and life peer who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 2015 to 2019. Hayman served as an Opposition Whip from 2015 to 2016 and Shadow Minister for Flooding and Coastal Communities from 2016 to 2017,then as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020.
Simone Jari Finn,Baroness Finn,is a British-American businesswoman and Conservative politician who served as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff from February 2021 until the end of the second Johnson Ministry.
Judith Vivienne Blake,Baroness Blake of Leeds is a British Labour politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords since 2021. She serves as a Baroness-in-Waiting in 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 and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Amanda Jane Parker is a British businesswoman,philanthropist,and volunteer. She was appointed as a magistrate in East Lancashire in 2005,sitting in both Adult Crime and Family jurisdictions. In 2015,she was appointed by Elizabeth II,in her capacity as Duke of Lancaster,as the High Sheriff of Lancashire. She was the eighth woman in Lancashire,and the twenty-second woman from a duchy county,to hold the office of High Sheriff. She was also the fifth member of the Parker family of Browsholme Hall to serve as High Sheriff of Lancashire.
