Sophie,Duchess of Edinburgh,is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward,Duke of Edinburgh,the youngest sibling of King Charles III.
Prince Edward,Duke of Edinburgh,,is a member of the British royal family. He is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,and the youngest sibling of King Charles III. He was born 3rd in the line of succession to the British throne and is now 14th.
Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia,also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia,is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in service from 1954 until 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660,and is the second royal yacht to bear the name,the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career,the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries. Now retired from royal service,Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal,Leith in Edinburgh,Scotland,where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.
Richard John Carew Chartres,Baron Chartres,FBS is a retired bishop of the Church of England. He was area Bishop of Stepney from 1992 to 1995 and Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017. He was sworn of the Privy Council in the same year he became Bishop of London. He was also Gresham Professor of Divinity from 1987 to 1992. In October 2017,Chartres was made a life peer,and now sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher;he had previously sat in the House as one of the Lords Spiritual.
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.
David Terence Puttnam,Baron Puttnam,CBE,HonFRSA,HonFRPS,MRIA is a British-Irish film producer,educator,environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire,which won the Academy Award for Best Picture,The Mission,The Killing Fields,Local Hero,Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. In 1982,he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema,and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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.
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes,Baron Fellowes of West Stafford,,known professionally as Julian Fellowes,is an English actor,novelist,film director,screenwriter,and Conservative peer of the House of Lords. He is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times bestseller novels;for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park,which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002;and as the creator,writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning ITV series Downton Abbey (2010–2015).
Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption,Lord Sumption,,is a British author,medieval historian and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018.
Peter Keith Levene,Baron Levene of Portsoken KStJ is a businessman who was chairman of Lloyd's of London from 2003 until 2011 and Lord Mayor of London from 1998 to 1999.
Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson,1st Baron Drumalbyn was a Scottish Tory and National Liberal politician.
Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya,Baron Bhattacharyya,was a British-Indian engineer,educator and government advisor. In 1980,he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. In 2004,he was made a Life Peer and became a member of the House of Lords.
Duncan Ian Macpherson,CM was a Canadian editorial cartoonist. He drew for the Montreal Standard and for Maclean's,illustrating the writings of Gregory Clark and Robert Thomas Allen. He is most famous for his humorous political cartoons for the Toronto Star;from 1958 until 1993. His syndicated cartoons appeared in seven other Canadian newspapers,in Time,The New York Times,Chicago Daily News and nearly 150 newspapers across the world.
Nicholas Ian Macpherson,Baron Macpherson of Earl's Court,is a former senior British civil servant. He served as the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 2005 to 2016.
David William Anthony Blyth Macpherson,2nd Baron Strathcarron,was best known as the "motorcycling peer". He inherited the Barony on his father's death in 1937,but lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords with the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Guy Vaughan Black,Baron Black of Brentwood is Deputy Chairman of the Telegraph Media Group.
Geoffrey Robert James Borwick,5th Baron Borwick,is a British businessman,hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.
Thomas Trenczek,is a German law professor and mediator. He studied both law,and social sciences (M.A.) in Tübingen (Germany),and Minneapolis (USA). He is owner of the Steinberg Institute for Mediation and Conflict Management (SIMK) Hannover and works as a mediation trainer.
Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon,19th Baron Teynham DSO DSC,was a career officer of the Royal Navy and an English peer,with a seat from 1936 in the House of Lords,where from 1946 to 1959 he was Deputy to the Earl of Drogheda and then to Lord Merthyr as Chairman of Committees.
The House of Lords Yacht Club is a yachting association for members of the House of Lords and some others connected with it,formed in 1949.
