Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton,Baron Shackleton,was a British geographer,Royal Air Force officer and Labour Party politician.
Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine,Baron Irvine of Lairg,,known as Derry Irvine,is a Scottish lawyer,judge and politician who served as Lord Chancellor from 1997 to 2003.
William Thomas Rodgers,Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank,,is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament,he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979,and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988,and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.
John Anderson Cunningham,Baron Cunningham of Felling,PC,DL is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years,serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election,and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.
Peter Temple-Morris,Baron Temple-Morris was a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster in 1974;he stood down in 2001 after changing parties. He sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. He died on 1 May 2018 aged 80.
Peter Kingsley Archer,Baron Archer of Sandwell,,was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 until 1992,when he became a life peer. Between 1974 and 1979 he was Solicitor General for England and Wales.
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil,7th Marquess of Salisbury,Baron Gascoyne-Cecil,,is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons,and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses,the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire,and currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
William Manuel Morris,Baron Morris of Handsworth,OJ,DL is a former British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003,and the first black leader of a major British trade union.
Edward Watson Short,Baron Glenamara,was a British Labour Party politician and deputy leader of the Labour Party. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and served as a minister during the Labour governments under Harold Wilson,before being appointed to the House of Lords shortly after James Callaghan became Prime Minister.
Henry Snell,1st Baron Snell,was a British socialist politician and campaigner. He served in government under Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill,and as the Labour Party's leader in the House of Lords in the late 1930s.
Thomas Frederick Peart,Baron Peart,PC was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.
Herbert William Bowden,Baron Aylestone,was a British Labour politician.
Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was a British trade unionist. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (1982–1993) and UNISON (1996–2001),Britain's largest trade union at the time. He later became president of the UK National Pensioners Convention (2001–2005).
The General Secretary of the Labour Party is the most senior employee of the British Labour Party,and acts as the non-voting secretary to the National Executive Committee. When there is a vacancy the National Executive Committee selects a provisional replacement,subject to approval at the subsequent party conference.
Ian William Wrigglesworth,Baron Wrigglesworth is a Liberal Democrat peer.
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.
Dianne Hayter,Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party,she was Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 2017 to 2021.
Philip Alexander Hunt,Baron Hunt of Kings Heath,is a former health administrator and a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords.
Thomas Henry Burlison,Baron Burlison,DL was a British footballer,GMB trade unionist and Treasurer of the Labour Party. He was the first former professional footballer to take a seat in the House of Lords.
John Henry Harris,Baron Harris of Greenwich,was an English journalist,political aide and politician. After serving as a local councillor and political advisor and aide to a number of Labour politicians including Roy Jenkins,he was created a life peer in order to become Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Wilson and Callaghan governments between 1974 and 1979. He became a founder member of the Social Democrats,becoming the Liberal Democrats Chief Whip in the House of Lords between 1994 and 2001.
