Gillian Patricia Shephard,Baroness Shephard of Northwold,,is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 1987 to 2005. Shephard served as a Cabinet Minister,and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
Betty Boothroyd,Baroness Boothroyd,was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party,she served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000. She was previously a Deputy Speaker from 1987 to 1992. She was the first and to date only woman to serve as Speaker. Boothroyd later sat in the House of Lords as,in accordance with tradition,a crossbench peer.
Martha Lane Fox,Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho is a British businesswoman,philanthropist and public servant. She co-founded Last Minute during the dotcom boom of the early 2000s and has subsequently served on public service digital projects. She sits on the boards of WeTransfer and Chanel,as well as being a trustee of The Queen's Commonwealth Trust. She previously served on the board of Channel 4.
Patricia Janet Scotland,Baroness Scotland of Asthal,,is a Dominican-British barrister and politician,serving as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations. She was elected at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and took office on 1 April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post.
Helena Ann Kennedy,Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws,is a Scottish barrister,broadcaster,and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn,an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice,the law reform think tank,and is also director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.
Vivien Helen Stern,Baroness Stern is a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Brenda Marjorie Hale,Baroness Hale of Richmond,,is a British judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss,Baroness Butler-Sloss,GBE,PC is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004,when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007,she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana,Princess of Wales,and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date,and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
Jean Alys Barker,Baroness Trumpington,was a British Conservative politician and life peer. In the 1960s and 1970s she served in local government in Cambridgeshire. In 1980 she was created a life peer after which she served in the House of Lords. From an upper-class background,she was a socialite and a secretary before entering politics,as well as serving in naval intelligence in World War II.
Michael Hastings Jay,Baron Jay of Ewelme,is a British politician and former diplomat. He sits as a Crossbench member of the House of Lords,and previously served as Ambassador to France and Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Pauline Perry,Baroness Perry of Southwark is an educator,educationist,academic,and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was for 25 years a working member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic,and serving during its transition to a university,became the first woman in history to run a British university.
Lindsay Patricia Northover,Baroness Northover,is a British academic,Liberal Democrat politician,member of the House of Lords,and former junior government minister.
Joyce Brenda Gould,Baroness Gould of Potternewton is a British Labour Party politician.
Janet Anne Royall,Baroness Royall of Blaisdon,,is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. A former secretary and adviser to Neil Kinnock,Royall was appointed to the House of Lords in 2004 after having stood unsuccessfully to be MEP for The Cotswolds and MP for Ipswich and Ogmore. She was Leader of the House of Lords for the last eighteen months of Gordon Brown's premiership. Royall is the current Principal of Somerville College,Oxford and was a candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election but lost to William Hague.
Dame Susan Catherine Campbell,Baroness Campbell of Loughborough,is a British sports administrator who was chairman of UK Sport between 2003 and 2013.
Michael Charles Williams,Baron Williams of Baglan was a British diplomat and crossbench life peer.
Sally Ralea Greengross,Baroness Greengross,was a British politician. Awarded an OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours,Greengross was raised to the peerage as Baroness Greengross,of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2000,sitting as a crossbencher.
Sir Brian James Proetel Fall is a retired British diplomat who was the UK's Special Representative for the South Caucasus 2002–12.
Moazzam Tufail Malik is a former British civil servant and diplomat. He is Managing Director at the World Resources Institute,and Chair at the Muslim Charities Forum,an umbrella NGO for faith based charities in the UK.
