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 conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carrington later served as the Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Bilderberg Group’s meetings from 1990 to 1998.
Graham Norman Tope,Baron Tope,is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was also a councillor in the London Borough of Sutton until 2014.
Bruce Bernard Weatherill,Baron Weatherill,was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992.
Reginald Ernest Prentice,Baron Prentice,PC was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments. He was the most senior Labour figure ever to defect to the Conservative Party.
Roger Norman Freeman,Baron Freeman,PC,is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major from 1995 to 1997. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Kettering from 1983 to 1997,and was made a life peer in 1997.
David Hugh Alexander Hannay,Baron Hannay of Chiswick is a British diplomat.
Edward Timothy Razzall,Baron Razzall,,is a British Liberal Democrat politician and parliamentarian.
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher,Baron Fletcher,was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Arnold Abraham Goodman,Baron Goodman,CH was a British lawyer and political advisor.
Norman Hogg,Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld CBE,DL,JP,LLD,FSA Scot. was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
Victor Mishcon,Baron Mishcon,QC,DL was a leading British solicitor and a Labour politician. His firm acted for Diana,Princess of Wales in her divorce.
Major Thomas "Robin" Valerian Dixon,3rd Baron Glentoran,,is a former British bobsledder and Northern Irish politician,known as Robin Dixon. He is a former Conservative Party Shadow Minister for the Olympics.
Arthur Vere Harvey,Baron Harvey of Prestbury,was a senior Royal Air Force officer and a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years.
Anthony James Clarke,Baron Clarke of Hampstead,CBE is an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Khalid Hameed,Baron Hameed,CBE,DL is the chairman of Alpha Hospital Group,and chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital. Prior to this,he was the executive director and chief executive officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London. He hails from Lucknow,India.
Jeffrey Maurice Sterling,Baron Sterling of Plaistow,is a British businessman and Conservative peer. The Plaistow referred to is Plaistow,West Sussex,reflected in the land holdings in the county.
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.
Ian McColl,Baron McColl of Dulwich,,is a British surgeon,professor,politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. McColl was made a life peer for his work for disabled people in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1989,which was gazetted on 29 July 1989 with the style and title of Baron McColl of Dulwich,of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major from 1994 to 1997 for which he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1997.
The 1966 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 19 May 1966 following the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament in preparation for a general election.
Air Vice-Marshal Richard Anthony Mason,was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Secretary.
