Peers

Ajay Kakkar

Lord Kakkar was raised to the peerage as Baron Kakkar of Loxbeare in the County of Devon in 2010.

Amirali Bhatia

Lord Bhatia was raised to the peerage as Baron Bhatia of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in 2001.

Ara Warkes Darzi

Lord Darzi was raised to the peerage as Baron Darzoi of Denham, of Gerrards Cross in the County of Buckinghamshire in 2007.

Bhikhu Chhotalal Parekh

Lord Parekh was raised to the peerage as Baron Parekh of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire in 2000.

Bill Morris

Lord Morris was raised to the peerage as Baron Morris of Handsworth, of Handsworth in the County of West Midlands in 2006.

Diljit Singh Rana

Lord Rana was raised to the peerage as Baron Rana of Malone in the County of Antrim in 2004.

Dolar Popat

Lord Popat was raised to the peerage as Baron Popat of Harrow in the London Borough of Harrow in 2010.

Doreen Lawrence

Baroness Lawrence was raised to the peerage as Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, of Clarendon in the Commonwealth Realm of Jamaica in 2013.

Floella Benjamin

Lady Benjamin was raised to the peerage as Baroness Benjamin, of Beckenham in the County of Kent in 2010.

Haleh Ashfar

Baroness Afshar was raised to the peerage as Baroness Afshar, of Heslington in the County of North Yorkshire in 2007. She is a crossbencher.

Herman George Ouseley

Lord Ouseley was raised to the peerage as Baron Ouseley, of Peckham Rye in the London Borough of Southwark in 2001.

Indarjit Singh

Lord Singh was raised to the peerage as Baron Singh of Wimbledon, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton in 2011.

Jitesh Gadhia

Lord Gadhia was raised to the peerage as Baron Gadhia, of Northwood in the County of Middlesex in 2016.

John Sentamu

Archbishop Sentamu was raised to the peerage as The Lord Archbishop of York in 2005.

John Taylor

Lord Taylor was raised to the peerage as Baron Taylor of Warwick, of Warwick in the County of Warwickshire in 1996.

Kamlesh Kumar Patel

Lord Patel was raised to the peerage as Baron Patel of Bradford, of Bradford in the County of West Yorkshire in 2006.

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria

Lord Bilimoria was raised to the peerage as Baron Bilimoria, of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2006.

Khalid Hameed

Lord Hameed was raised to the peerage as Baron Hameed, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden in 2007.

Kishwer Falkner

Baroness Falkner was raised to the peerage as Baroness Falkner of Margravine, of Barons Court in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 2004.

Kumar Bhattacharyya

Lord Bhattacharyya was raised to the peerage as Baron Bhattacharyya, of Moseley in the County of West Midlands in 2004.

Lola Young

Baroness Young was raised to the peerage as Baroness Young of Hornsey, of Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey in 2004.

Manzila Pola Uddin

Lady Uddin was raised to the peerage as Baroness Uddin, of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1998.

Meral Hussein-Ece

Baroness Hussein Ece was raised to the peerage as Baroness Hussein-Ece of Highbury in 2010 for the Liberal Democrats. Baroness Ece has had a long career in local government, and ...

Michael John Hastings

Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE (Commander of Order of the British Empire) is the International Director of Corporate Citizenship at KPMG, and was previously the head of Corporate Social ...

Michael Nazir-Ali

Lord Michael Nazir-Ali was born in 1949 and is the 106th Bishop of Rochester.

Mohamed Sheikh

Lord Mohamed Iltaf Sheikh was born in 1941 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Sheikh of Cornhill in the City of London in 2006.

Narendra Babubhai Patel

Lord Narendra Babubhai Patel was born in 1938 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Patel, of Dunkeld in Perth and Kinross in 1999.

Nathanael Wei

Nathanael Ming-Yan Wei, Lord Wei, born in Watford in 1977, is currently the youngest member of the House of Lords. He studied Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford. In 2006, Wei ...

Navnit Dholakia

Lord Navnit Dholakia was born in 1937 and was raised to peerage as Baron Dholakia, of Waltham Brooks in the County West Sussex in 1997.

Nazir Ahmed

Lord Nazir Ahmed was born in 1957 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Ahmed, of Rotherham in the County of South Yorkshire in 1998.

Oona King

Baroness King of Bow was appointed to the House of Lords in 2011. She has sat on the Adoption Legislation Committee as well as the Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Committee. She is currently a ...

Patricia Janet Scotland

Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland was born in 1955 and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Scotland of Asthal, of Asthal in the County of Oxfordshire in 1997.

Paul Boateng

Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng, was born to a Ghanaian father and Scottish mother in Hackney, London, 1951. At age four his family relocated to Ghana, where they stayed for 11 years. After ...

Rami Ranger

Rami Ranger was raised to the peerage as Baron Ranger of Mayfair in the City of Westminster, in 2019. Born in 1947 in Gujranwala (now Pakistan), Rami started life in a refugee camp in India ...

Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells

Baroness Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells was born in 1931 and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich in 1999.

Rumi Verjee

Rumi Verjee, Lord Verjee was born in 1957, and moved to the UK as a child from Uganda. He was educated at Downing College, Cambridge where he gained a BA in Law before being called up to the ...

Sandip Verma

Baroness Verma was born in Amritsar in Punjab, India. She moved as a child with her parents to England in 1960. She was created a Conservative life peer as Baroness Verma, of ...

Sayeeda Hussain Warsi

Baroness Warsi was born to Pakistani parents in Yorkshire in 1971. She was educated at Birkdale High School, Dewsbury College, and the University of Leeds where she read Law (LLB). ...

Shreela Flather

Baroness Shreela Flather was raised to the peerage as Baroness Flather, of Windsor and Maidenhead in the Royal County of Berkshire in 1990.

Meghnad Desai

Lord Desai was raised to the peerage as Baron Desai, of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster in 1991.

Shriti Vadera

Shriti was born in 1962 in Uganda. She is a UK government minister, former advisor and former UBS Warburg investment banker. From April 1999 to June 2007 she was an adviser to Gordon ...

Simon Andrew Woolley

Simon Andrew Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford Kt is a political and equalities activist. He is the founder and director of Operation Black Vote and the Advisory Chair of the Government of ...

Swraj Paul

Swraj Paul , Baron Paul, was born in Punjab in 1931. He received his BSc, MSc and MechE degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United ...

Usha Kumari Prashar

Baroness Usha Kumari Prashar was born in 1948 and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Prashar, of Runnymede in the County of Surrey in 1999.

Valerie Amos

Baroness Valerie Ann Amos was born in 1954 and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Amos, of Brondesbury in the London Borough of Brent in 1997.

Victor Adebowale

Lord Victor Adebowale was born in 1962 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Adebowale, of Thornes in the County of West Yorkshire in 2001.

Waheed Alli

Lord Waheed Alli was born in 1964 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Alli, of Norbury in the London Borough of Croydon in 1998.

Zameer Choudrey

Zameer Choudrey was raised to the peerage as Baron Choudrey of Hampstead in the London Borough of Barnet in 2019. Born in 1958 in Islamabad, Pakistan, Zameer moved to the UK at the age of ...

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