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 before defecting to Labour in 1995,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.
William Michael Hardy Spicer,Baron Spicer,was a British politician and life peer who was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 2010 until 2019. He served as Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire from 1974 to 2010 and was a minister from 1984 to 1990. He later served as chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2001 to 2010.
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.
John Morris,Baron Morris of Aberavon,was a British politician. He was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over 41 years,from 1959 to 2001,which included a period as Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979 and as Attorney General between 1997 and 1999. He was the last living former Labour MP who was first elected in the 1950s. He was also the last surviving member of Harold Wilson's 1974–76 cabinet,and was the longest-serving Privy Counsellor at the time of his death. His combined parliamentary service totalled over 60 years.
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.
Peter Wynford Innes Rees,Baron Rees,was a British Conservative politician and barrister. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover and Deal from 1974 to 1983 and MP for Dover from 1970 to 1974 and 1983 to 1987. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1983 until 1985. He was created a life peer as Baron Rees,of Goytre,in 1987.
Bryan Davies,Baron Davies of Oldham,PC is a Labour politician and former member of the House of Commons and House of Lords. He served as Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 2003 to 2010,and as usual for a holder of that position,also held the position of Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard.
The Ministry of Technology was a department of the government of the United Kingdom,sometimes abbreviated as "MinTech". The Ministry of Technology was established by the incoming government of Harold Wilson in October 1964 as part of Wilson's ambition to modernise the state for what he perceived to be the needs of the 1960s. The pledge was included in the Labour Party's 1964 general election manifesto:"A Labour Government will .. [set] up a Ministry of Technology to guide and stimulate a major national effort to bring advanced technology and new processes into the industry."
Edward Heath of the Conservative Party formed the Heath ministry and was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II on 19 June 1970,following the 18 June general election. Heath's ministry ended after the February 1974 general election,which produced a hung parliament,leading to the formation of a minority government by Harold Wilson of the Labour Party.
John Edward Tomlinson,Baron Tomlinson was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He served as a life peer in the House of Lords from 1998 until his death,and had previously been a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.
Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton,Baron Houghton of Sowerby,was a British Labour politician. He was the last British Cabinet minister born in the 19th century. After he retired in 1967,every Cabinet minister has been born since 1900. He was also the last veteran of World War I to serve in the Cabinet and both Houses of Parliament.
John Donkin Dormand,Baron Dormand of Easington was a British educationist and Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Easington in County Durham,in the north-east of England. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Easington constituency from 1970 until his retirement in 1987.
Kenneth John Woolmer,Baron Woolmer of Leeds is a British university lecturer and politician. Coming into politics through local government in West Yorkshire,Woolmer was elected to Parliament for the Labour Party in 1979. He became an effective Parliamentarian and was rapidly promoted,despite clearly allying to the party's right-wing and playing an active role in the intra-party conflict. Partly due to adverse boundary changes,he lost his seat in 1983 and was unable to win it back. Later in life he received a life peerage and was an active member of the House of Lords.
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.
Geoffrey James Whitty CBE was a British sociologist and professor for equity in education at the University of Newcastle,Australia and who was also a director of the Institute of Education,University of London.
Frank Ashcroft Judd,Baron Judd,was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002,and from 2002 to 2015,a trustee. In 2007,he became a member of the advisory board at the Centre for Human Rights,and from 2014 to 2015,a member of the Commission on Diplomacy,at the London School of Economics. He was a member of the Unite and GMB trade unions.
Sydney Arnold,1st Baron Arnold was a radical British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party and served as a government minister.
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.
Merlyn Merlyn-Rees,Baron Merlyn-Rees,was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–1976) and Home Secretary (1976–1979).
