Lady Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007. Since September 2020,Amos has been Master of University College,Oxford,succeeding Sir Ivor Crewe and becoming the first-ever black head of an Oxford college,as well as the first woman appointed to the post.
Gillian Patricia Shephard,Baroness Shephard of Northwold,,is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 1987 to 2005. Shephard served as a Cabinet Minister,and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
Betty Boothroyd,Baroness Boothroyd is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. From 1992 to 2000,she served as Speaker of the House of Commons. She is the only woman to have served as Speaker,and one of two living former Speakers of the British House of Commons. She sits,by tradition,as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords.
Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock,Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead,is a British politician and former teacher who served as Minister of State for Europe from June to October 2009 and Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales,formerly South Wales East,from 1994 to 2009.
Helene Valerie Hayman,Baroness Hayman,is a British politician who was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party she was a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979,and became a life peer in 1996.
Mair Eluned Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Ely is a Welsh Labour politician serving as Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Government since 2021. Morgan has served as a Member of the House of Lords since 2011 and as a Member of the Senedd (MS) since 2016. She was previously Minister for the Welsh Language from 2017 to 2021,Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing from 2020 to 2021,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2009.
Julia Elizabeth King,Baroness Brown of Cambridge is a British engineer and crossbench member of the House of Lords,present Chair of the Carbon Trust and the Henry Royce Institute,and was the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.
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.
Patricia Lesley Hollis,Baroness Hollis of Heigham,PC,DL was an historian and Labour member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.
Sarah Virginia Brinton,Baroness Brinton,known as Sal Brinton,is a British politician who served as president of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2020. In November 2010 she was nominated to the House of Lords,taking her place on 10 February 2011 having been created Baroness Brinton,of Kenardington in the County of Kent on 4 February. After Jo Swinson lost her seat at the 2019 United Kingdom general election,Brinton and Sir Ed Davey became acting co-leaders of the Liberal Democrats.
Shreela Flather,Baroness Flather DL is a British-Indian politician,teacher and life peer.
Jane Bonham Carter,Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury is a British Liberal Democrat politician,and member of the House of Lords.
Caroline Anne Cox,Baroness Cox,is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005,as well as being a minister in government. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University,Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006 to 2013,and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.
Ilora Gillian Finlay,Baroness Finlay of Llandaff,FMedSci is a Welsh doctor,professor of palliative medicine,and a Crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Margaret Mary Ritchie,Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick,is an Irish politician who was the Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from 2010 to 2011. She was previously a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Down from 2003 to 2012,and was the Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2007 to 2010. Ritchie was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Down from 2010 to 2017. She became a life peer in 2019 initially as a non-affiliated member,and then from October 2021 as a Labour member.
Julia Frances Cumberlege,Baroness Cumberlege,is a British Conservative Party politician and businesswoman. She was created a life peer on 18 May 1990 as Baroness Cumberlege,of Newick in the County of East Sussex.
Sally Ralea Greengross,Baroness Greengross,was a British politician. Awarded an OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours,Greengross was raised to the peerage as Baroness Greengross,of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2000,sitting as a crossbencher.
Judith Anne Jolly,Baroness Jolly is a Liberal Democrat life peer. She was raised to the peerage in 2010 and was introduced to the House of Lords in January 2011. Her maiden speech was made within a week on health issues and she immediately became involved in briefings on the Health and Social Care Bill.
Breast Cancer Now is a charity in the United Kingdom which was formed in 2015 by the merger of Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. It is the United Kingdom's largest breast cancer charity. Its declared "Action Plan" is "by 2050,everyone who develops breast cancer will live".
