Alan Thomas Howarth,Baron Howarth of Newport,,is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative,he is one of few politicians in recent years to have served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour life peer.
Timothy Eric Boswell,Baron Boswell of Aynho is a British politician who was the Conservative MP for Daventry from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election,after which he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.
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.
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.
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.
Malcolm Newton Shepherd,2nd Baron Shepherd,Baron Shepherd of Spalding,was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
William Stephen Goulden "Willy" Bach,Baron Bach is a British Labour member of the House of Lords. He was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice from 2008 to 2010. He resigned from the opposition front bench when he was elected the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner on 6 May 2016. He did not stand again at the 2021 PCC election and was succeeded by the Conservative Rupert Matthews.
Herbert William Bowden,Baron Aylestone,was a British Labour politician.
David Leonard Stoddart,Baron Stoddart of Swindon was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon from 1970 to 1983,and as a life peer in the House of Lords from 1983 to his death in 2020. He served as a Labour peer from 1983 to 2002,when he was expelled from the Labour benches,after which he sat as an Independent Labour peer until his death.
Denis Victor Carter,Baron Carter PC was a British agriculturalist and Labour Co-operative politician. He was made a life peer in 1987,and was chief whip in the House of Lords from 1997 to 2002.
Norman Hogg,Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld CBE,DL,JP,LLD,FSA Scot. was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
Oliver Michael Robert Eden,8th Baron Henley,6th Baron Northington PC,is a British hereditary peer and politician,who is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. He has served in a number of ministerial positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher,John Major,David Cameron and Theresa May,most recently as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Stanley Clinton Clinton-Davis,Baron Clinton-Davis,was a British politician and solicitor. A member of the Labour Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central from 1970 to 1983,and was a minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson,James Callaghan and Tony Blair. He was European Commissioner in the Delors Commission (1985–1989). In 1990,he became a life peer,sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2018.
Matthew Evans,Baron Evans of Temple Guiting,,was a British Labour Party politician. Evans' father was the writer George Ewart Evans.
Henry Reginall Underhill,Baron Underhill CBE,was a British party worker and Labour politician.
Anthony Stephen Grabiner,Baron Grabiner,KC is a British barrister,academic administrator,and life peer. He is head of chambers at One Essex Court,a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple,and was the Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn for 2013. From 2014 to 2021 he served as the Master of Clare College,Cambridge and,since 2015,he has served as the President of the University of Law. Grabiner was non-executive chairman of Taveta Investments Ltd,the holding company of Sir Philip Green behind Arcadia Group from 2002 to December 2015.
Simon Mark Arthur,4th Baron Glenarthur,DL,is a British peer,pilot and businessman. Having succeeded to his father's titles in 1976,he is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999,and sits as a Conservative.
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.
John Jacob "Johnny" Astor VIII,3rd Baron Astor of Hever,,is an English businessman and politician from the Astor family. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative hereditary peer from 1986 to his retirement in 2022. Astor was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 2010 to 2015. Astor is a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.
The 1992 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 5 June 1992 following the advice of the Prime Minister,John Major.
