Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone,Baroness Blackstone,is an English politician and university administrator.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill,Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve,is a British philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Usha Prashar,Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s,she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.
Carys Davina Grey-Thompson,Baroness Grey-Thompson,,known as Tanni Grey-Thompson,is a Welsh life peeress,television presenter and former wheelchair racer.
Margaret Susan Cheshire,Baroness Ryder of Warsaw,Baroness Cheshire,,commonly known as Sue Ryder,was a British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War,and a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry,who afterwards established charitable organisations,notably the Sue Ryder Foundation.
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.
Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson,Baroness Randerson is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is a former junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government.
Caroline Anne Cox,Baroness Cox,is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005,as well as being a minister in government. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University,Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006 to 2013,and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.
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.
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock,Baroness Sherlock,is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she is an ordained priest of the Church of England.
Margaret Omolola Young,Baroness Young of Hornsey is a British actress,author,crossbench peer,and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée Park,Baroness Park of Monmouth,CMG,OBE,FRSA was a British intelligence officer,diplomat and public servant. During her career as a clandestine senior controller in MI6 (1943–1993) she was stationed in Austria (1946-1948),Moscow (1954–1956),the Congo (1959–1961),Zambia (1964–1967) and Hanoi (1969–1971).
Gloria Dorothy Hooper,Baroness Hooper,is a British lawyer and a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
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.
Margaret Theresa Prosser,Baroness Prosser,is a Labour life peer and former trade unionist.
Patricia Morris,Baroness Morris of Bolton,,is a British peer and former Shadow Minister for Women and an Opposition Whip for the Conservative Party.
Meral Hussein Ece,Baroness Hussein-Ece,is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016,under leader Tim Farron.
Doreen Delceita Lawrence,Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon,,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.
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,political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
