Janet Mary Young,Baroness Young,was a British Conservative Party politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983,first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher.
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.
Jennifer Helen Jones,Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb,is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London from 2003 to 2004. A member of the Green Party of England and Wales,she was until September 2019 the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords.
Elspeth Rosamund Morton Howe,Baroness Howe of Idlicote,was a British life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords (2001–2020) who served in many capacities in public life. As the widow of Geoffrey Howe,she was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right. She was the paternal half-aunt of Queen Camilla.
Elizabeth Deirdre Doocey,Baroness Doocey,is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businesswoman. A former chair of the London Assembly,she was created a life peer in 2010 and is now the inaugural chair of the House of Lords Finance Committee.
Detta O'Cathain,Baroness O'Cathain,was an Irish-born British businesswoman and Conservative politician.
Carys Davina Grey-Thompson,Baroness Grey-Thompson,,known as Tanni Grey-Thompson,is a Welsh life peeress,television presenter and former wheelchair racer.
Sarah Hogg,Viscountess Hailsham,Baroness Hogg,Baroness Hailsham of Kettlethorpe is a British economist,journalist,and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.
Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister,Countess of Swinton,Baroness Masham of Ilton,was a British crossbench member of the House of Lords,disability campaigner and Paralympic athlete. She was the founder and life-long president of the Spinal Injuries Association. She was Vice President of the Snowdon Trust,founded by the Earl of Snowdon,which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. Her 53 years' membership of the House of Lords was the longest of any female peer.
Ruth Beatrice Henig,Baroness Henig CBE,DL is a British academic historian and Labour Party politician.
Barbara Wootton,Baroness Wootton of Abinger,CH was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was the first of four women to be appointed as a life peer,entitled to serve in the House of Lords,under the Life Peerages Act 1958,after the names of the holders of the first 14 life peerages to be created had been announced on 24 July. She was President of the British Sociological Association from 1959 to 1964.
Operation Paget was the British Metropolitan Police inquiry established in 2004 to investigate the conspiracy theories about the death of Diana,Princess of Wales in a car crash in Paris in 1997. The inquiry's first report with the findings of the criminal investigation was published in 2006. The inquiry was wound up following the conclusion of the British inquest in 2008,in which a jury delivered its verdict of an "unlawful killing" due to the "gross negligence" of both the driver of Diana's car and the pursuing paparazzi.
Jennifer Hilton,Baroness Hilton of Eggardon,is a British Labour Party politician and former police officer with the Metropolitan Police. She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Doreen Delceita Lawrence,Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon,OBE is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence,a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for services to community relations in 2003,and was created a Life Peer in 2013.
Caroline Elizabeth Chisholm,Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen,is a British life peeress and member of the House of Lords,where she currently sits as a Crossbencher.
Susan Mary Hayman,Baroness Hayman of Ullock is a British politician and life peer who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 2015 to 2019 and appointed to the House of Lords in 2020.
Simone Jari Finn,Baroness Finn is a businesswoman and British-American Conservative politician who served as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff from February 2021 until the end of the second Johnson Ministry.
Judith Vivienne Blake,Baroness Blake of Leeds is a British Labour politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords since 2021. She serves on the opposition front bench as a Shadow Spokesperson for Housing,Communities and Local Government and an Opposition Whip.
As part of the British honours system,Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative,operational honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Martha Otito Osamor,Baroness Osamor is a British-Nigerian Labour Party politician,life peer,community activist and civil rights campaigner. She is the mother of Kate Osamor,the Labour MP for Edmonton since 2015.
