Peter Alexander Rupert Carington,6th Baron Carrington,Baron Carington of Upton,,was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974,Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982,Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984,and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government,he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the racial conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe.
Kenneth Wilfred Baker,Baron Baker of Dorking,is a British politician,Conservative Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1997,and a cabinet minister,including holding the offices of Home Secretary,Education Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman. He is a life member of the Tory Reform Group.
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. He died on 1 May 2018 aged 80.
Gordon Marsden is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Blackpool South from 1997 to 2019.
John Buttifant Sewel,Baron Sewel,,is a British politician,life peer,and former academic. He served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords,its deputy speaker. He is also a former senior vice principal of the University of Aberdeen and a former parliamentary under-secretary of state.
David Maxim Triesman,Baron Triesman is a British politician,merchant banker and former trade union leader.
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.
William Manuel Morris,Baron Morris of Handsworth,OJ,DL is a former British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003,and the first black leader of a major British trade union.
Robert Haldane Smith,Baron Smith of Kelvin,is a British businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999,appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in 2008,and appointed Knight of the Thistle in the 2014 New Year Honours. He was also appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016.
Alfred Dubs,Baron Dubs is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament.
Herbert William Bowden,Baron Aylestone,was a British Labour politician.
Richard Napier Luce,Baron Luce,is a British politician. He is a former Lord Chamberlain to the Queen,serving from 2000 to 2006,and has been Governor of Gibraltar,a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1971 to 1992,and government minister,and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Michael James German,Baron German,OBE is a British politician,serving currently as a member of the House of Lords and formerly as a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales East region. He was leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2008. In 1996,he was awarded an OBE for his public and political service.
Leslie Arnold Turnberg,Baron Turnberg,,is a British medical professional and an author of many publications and books related to the medical and health services fields. His experience extends to areas of research in these fields,and maintaining a clinical practice. He has published four books and some 150 articles on medical and scientific research. He has written two books on the history of Israel:Beyond the Balfour Declaration;the 100 Year Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace was published in 2017,and Mandate:Britain's Palestinian Burden,1919–1939 was published in 2021.
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.
David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin,Baron Filkin,is a British Labour politician.
Michael Charles Williams,Baron Williams of Baglan was a British diplomat and crossbench life peer.
John Gardiner,Baron Gardiner of Kimble is a British politician. He is a life peer,and has served as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since May 2021.
Benjamin Russell Mackintosh Stoneham,Baron Stoneham of Droxford is a British peer,journalist,and Liberal Democrat politician. He is currently the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords,having been elected to that position in October 2016.
John Henry Harris,Baron Harris of Greenwich,was an English journalist,political aide and politician. After serving as a local councillor and political advisor and aide to a number of Labour politicians including Roy Jenkins,he was created a life peer in order to become Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Wilson and Callaghan governments between 1974 and 1979. He became a founder member of the Social Democrats,becoming the Liberal Democrats Chief Whip in the House of Lords between 1994 and 2001.
