On this page you will find links to websites
relating to many individual Crossbench Peers. These give a flavour
of the diverse experience and points of view that
Crossbenchers bring to the House of Lords.
NOTICE: Individual Crossbench
Peers are not necessarily responsible for the content of these
websites
Lord
Adebowale
Fellow of Judge Business School Cambridge
Member of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Director, Leadership in Mind ltd
Chief Executive of Turning Point
Member, NHS Quality Board
Chancellor and Visiting Professor, Lincoln University

Baroness Afshar
Emeritus Professor, University of York

Viscount Allenby of
Megiddo
Vice President of the
International League for the Protection of
Horses

Lord Alton of
Liverpool
David Alton
website
Director of the Liverpool John Moores University Foundation for Citizenship

Lord
Armstrong of Ilminster
Chairman of the
Hestercombe Garden Trust
Chairman of the Leeds Castle
Foundation
Chairman of the Board of
Governors of the Royal Northern College of Music
Chancellor of the University of
Hull

Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
Member, Research Council for Complimentary Medicine 1989-1991
Chair, British Accupuncture Accrediation Board 1990-1998

Lord
Bew
Professor, Queen's University Belfast
Chair, British-Irish Association
Chairman of the Executive, Anglo-Israel Association
Member, British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly

Lord
Best
Director of the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation, 1988 - 2006
Chair, Hanover Housing Association
Treasurer, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Chair, The Property Ombudsman Council
President, Local Government Association
Trustee, The Tree Council
Chair, Office for Public Management, Public Interest Council

Lord
Bichard
Chair of the Design Council
Chairman of the Film Club

Lord
Blair of Boughton
Chair of the Thames Valley Partnership
Member of the Bishop�s Council, Oxford Diocese

Baroness Boothroyd
Speaker of the House of
Commons, 1992 - 2000
The Betty Boothroyd Papers
at the Open University Archives
President of Fight for Sight
Member of the Board of the History of Parliament
Trust
Patron of the Memorial to
the Women of World War II Fund
Chancellor of the Open University

Lord
Boyce
Governor of Alleyn's
School
Vice Patron of the
Atlantic Council Appeal
President of the Officer's
Association
Patron of Sail 4 Cancer -
Sailing towards a cancer free world
President of the St John Ambulance London
(Prince of Wales) District
Patron of the Submariners
Association
Council Member of the
White Ensign Association

Lord
Bramall
President of London
Playing Fields Association
President of the Not
Forgotten Association
Vice President of the
Soldiers', Sailors', Airmen and Families
Association

Lord
Broers
Trustee of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Engineers
Vice Chancellor Emeritius of Cambridge University
Trustee of the British Museum
Council Member of the Foundation of Science & Technology

Viscount
Brookeborough
Member of the Advisory
Council for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme in Northern
Ireland
President of the Army
Benevolent Fund, Northern Ireland
President of Northern Ireland Outward Bound
Member of the Northern
Ireland Police Board
Patron of Rapid UK -
rescue and preparedness in disasters

Lord Browne
of Madingley
Lead Non-Executive Member of the Cabinet Office Board
Chair of the Trustees of the Tate
Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of Government
Chair of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation

Lord Butler of Brockwell
Chair, Kings Health Partnership Board
Master, The Salters' Company

Baroness Butler-Sloss
Govenor, Merchant Taylors' School
Senior Bencher, Inner Temple
President, Grandparent's Association
Govenor, Coram Family
Trustee, Human Trafficking Foundation

Lord
Cameron of Lochbroom
Chairman of the Royal Fine
Art Commission for Scotland
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of
Scotland
Chancellor's Assessor,
University of Edinburgh

Lord Carey of
Clifton
Archives of Lord Carey of
Clifton, 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury
Chair, United Church Schools Trust
Chair, Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East

Lord
Chorley
President of the Royal
Geographic Society from 1987-1990
Chairman of the National
Trust from 1991-1996
Vice President of the Council for National
Parks

Lord
Cobbold
Trustee of the Knebworth
Education and Preservation Trust
Trustee of the Pilgrim
Trust
Chairman of Stevenage
Community Trust
President of the
University of Hertfordshire Development Committee and Member
of the Board of Governors

Lord
Condon
Life Member of the
Association of Chief Police Officers
President of the British Security Industry
Association 2003 - 2009

Baroness
Coussins
Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages
President, the Money Advice Trust
Patron, On the Shoulders of Giants
Governor, Channing School

Lord Craig of
Radley
Fellow of the Commonwealth
Partnership for Technology Management Ltd
Vice President of the Forces Pension
Society
Vice Chairman of Council of the RAF Benevolent
Fund
President of the Royal Air
Force Club
Life Member of the Royal
Air Forces Association
President (RAF) of The
"Not Forgotten" Association
Patron of The Radley
Foundation
Vice President of The
Royal Star and Garter Home

Viscount Craigavon
Advisor to the Progress Educational
Trust

Lord Currie
of Marylebone
Dean of the Cass Business
School, City University London
Chairman of OFCOM - Office of
Communications

Lord Dear
Trustee, World Horse Welfare
Trustee, Police Rehabilitation Trust
Trustee of the Police Foundation

Baroness Deech
Chairman of the Bar Standards Board
Former Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education
Former Principal, St Anne�s College, Oxford
Former Governor of the BBC
Former Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
Former Rhodes Trustee
Honorary Bencher, Inner Temple
Freeman by Presentation of the Drapers� Company

Lord
Eames
Anglican Archbishop of
Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, 1986 - 2006

Baroness Emerton
Former Chair, Brighton NHS Trust 1993-2000
Former Chair of Attend, formerly the Association of Hospital and Community Friends 1993-1996
Chancellor of the Order of St John of Jerusalem,
Priory of England from 1999 - 2002 and Chief Commander of St
John Ambulance from 1996 - 2002
Trustee of The Defence
Medical Welfare Service
Non Executive Director, The St. John Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service

Earl of
Erroll
Chief of the Clan
Hay
Member of the Court of the
Fishmongers' Company
Patron of Keeper of the
Quaich
President of the Royal
Caledonian Ball

Viscount Falkland
Patron, The Tower Hamlets Mission
Trustee, U Can Do it
President, The Dispatch Association

Lord
Fellowes
Former Chairman of the Prison
Reform Trust
Chairman, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
President, Advisory Council, Goodenough College
Director and Trustee, British Library
Vice Chairman, Commonwealth Education Trust
Trustee, Global Warming Policy Foundation
Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit
Governor and Trustee, King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes
Member, Governing Body, International Chamber of Commerce UK

Baroness
Finlay of Llandaff
Former President, Royal Society of Medicine
Former Member, Science Committee of Cancer
Research UK
President, Chartered
Society of Physiotherapy
Consultant, Palliative Medicine, Velindre NHS Trust
Vice President, Marie Curie
Cancer Care
Former President,
Medical Women's Federation
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University
Former Vice Dean, University of Wales College of Medicine
Past (Founder) Chairman of
the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of
Medicine
Co-Chair, Living and Dying Well

Lord
Freyberg
Member of the Design
Council, 2001 - 04

Baroness Greenfield
Baroness Greenfield's website
Co-chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education
Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University
SET FAIR - A Report
on Women in Science, Engineering and Technology from Baroness
Greenfield to the Secretary of State for Trade & Industry,
November 2002
A Strategy for Women in
Science, Engineering and Technology - The Government Response
to the Greenfield Report, April 2003
Founder of the Science for Humanity charity

Baroness Grey-Thompson
Chair, Commission for Women in Sport
Board Member, Transport for London
President, Sports Leaders UK
Member, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Board Member, London Marathon
Pro-Chancellor, Staffordshire University
Trustee, Snowdon Awards Scheme
Trustee and Vice Chairwoman, Global Foundation, Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
Executive Committee Member, British Wheelchair Sports Foundation

Baroness Greengross
Vice President of Age Concern England;
previously Director General, 1987-2000
Chair of the All Party
Parliamentary Corporate Social Responsibility Group; Dementia; International Futures and Continence Care
Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre UK
Commissioner, Equality and Human Rights Commission
President, Pensions Policy Institute
Vice President of the Local Government
Association

Lord
Guthrie of Craigiebank
President of Action Medical Research
President of the
Federation of London Youth Clubs
Patron of the Cardinal
Hume Centre
President of the Jubilee
Action Turkana Appeal
Council Member of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Patron of the Oratory School
Patron of The Second World War Experience
Centre
Vice President of the
Trinity Institute for Christianity and Culture

Lord Hall of Birkenhead
Chief Executive, Royal Opera House
Non-executive Director, London Organising Committee of Olympic Games (LOCOG)
Chairman, Cultural Olympiad Board
Trustee, The British Council
Trustee, High House Production Park Limited
Board Member, Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Lord Hannay
of Chiswick
Member of the Advisory
Board of the Centre for European Reform
Member of the Advisory
Committee of the European Foreign Affairs Review
Chairman of the International Advisory Board of
the EDHEC Business School, France - Ecole des Hautes Etudes
Commerciales
Member of the Advisory
Board of Prospect Magazine
Chairman of the Board of the United Nations Association
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Pro-Chancellor of the
University of Birmingham

Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick
Vice President, Catch 22
Chairman, Millennium Promise UK
Vice President, UNICEF UK

Lord Hennessy
Trustee and Director of The Tablet Magazine

Baroness Hollins
Executive Chair, Books Beyond Words
Former President, Royal College of Psychiatrists
Patron, RESPOND
Patron, Living and Dying Well

Baroness Hogg
Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council
Member of the Takeover Panel
Senior Adviser, FSA

Lord Hope of
Craighead
Chancellor of Strathclyde
University

Baroness Howarth of
Breckland
Founding Chief Executive
of ChildLine, 1986-2000
Board Member of the Food Standards
Agency
Vice Chair of the John
Grooms disability charity
Patron of Little Hearts Matters
Vice Chair of the Lucy Faithfull
Foundation
Chairman of the Michael
Sieff Foundation
Vice Chair of the National Care Standards
Commission
Chair of the steering
group of Stop It Now- Because there is a way to prevent
child sexual abuse

Baroness
Howe of Idlicote
Trustee of the
Architectural Association
Vice President of the
Institute of Business Ethics' Advisory Council
Member of the NCVO
Advisory Council
President of the UK
Committee of UNICEF from 1993 - 2002

Lord
Hylton
Patron of Action around
Bethlehem for Children with Disability (ABCD)
Co-Founder and Trustee of the Ammerdown
Centre
Trustee of Forward Thinking
President of the Northern
Ireland Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of
Offenders

Lord Imbert
of New Romney
Trustee of Crime Stoppers
Trustee of the Police
Foundation
Vice President of the
Friends of St Thomas' Hospital
Trustee of the University College London
Hospitals Charitable Foundation

Lord
Inge
Deputy Chairman of
Historic Royal Palaces
Member of the Institute
for Strategic Studies
Chairman of the Council of King Edward VII Sister
Agnes Hospital
Board and Council Member of St George's House,
Windsor Castle

Lord
Kerr of Kinlochard
Chairman, Centre for European Reform
President, St Andrew's Clinics for Children
Vice-President, European Policy Centre
Trustee, Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland
Patron, Aston Centre for Europe
Council member, Business for New Europe
UK Convenor, Trilateral Commission
UK Convenor, Bilderberg Conference

Baroness Kidron
Co-Founder and Vice Chair, Filmclub
Governor, British Film Institute
Council Member, Institute of Contempoary Arts
Trustee, Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Lord
Krebs
Principal, Jesus College, Oxford University
Trustee, The Nuffield Foundation

Lord
Laming
Lord Laming chaired the
independent statutory inquiry into the tragic death of
Victoria Climbi�

Lord Lewis of
Newnham
President of the Arthritis
Research Campaign
Chairman of the Onyx Environmental
Trust

Lord
Levene of Portsoken
Chairman of International Financial Services � London
Alderman of the City of London Corporation
Governor of the City of London School

Lord
Low of Dalston
Patron of SKILL - National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
Vice President of the Royal National Institute of Blind People

Lord
Luce
Former Lord Chamberlain of The
Queen's Household

Countess of Mar
Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

Lord
Marshall of Knightsbridge
Chairman of the Board of
Governors Birkbeck College, University of London
President of CYEC - Commonwealth Youth Exchange
Council
President of the Knightsbridge Association

Baroness
Masham of Ilton
Member of the Associate
Parliamentary Food and Health Forum
Life President of the Spinal Injuries
Association
Council Member of the
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

Lord May of
Oxford
President of the Royal
Society 2000 - 2005
Companion of the Order of Australia

Baroness Meacher
Patron of Taxaid

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Vice President of Canning House - the home of the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
Chief Executive, The Breast Cancer Campaign

Baroness O'Neill of
Bengarve
Member of the Council of
the British Philosophical Association
Principal of Newnham College, University of
Cambridge
Member of the Academic
Advisory Board of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
Chairman of the Nuffield
Foundation
President of the Mind
Association for 2003-2004

Lord
Ouseley
Chair and Chief Executive
of the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 -
2000
Council Member of the Institute for Race Relations
Former President of the Local Government Association
Chair of Policy Institute for Ageing and Ethnicity

Lord
Owen
The David Owen Archive at
Liverpool University
Lord Owen website
Chairman of Trustees, Deadlaus Trust
Member, European Leadership Network
Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
Member, Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non Proliferation
Member, Global Zero
Director of the Centre for
International Health and Cooperation

Lord
Oxburgh
Chairman of the
Engineering and Technology Board
Member of Council of the Foundation for Science
and Technology
Chairman of the Friends of
the Natural History Museum and past Chairman of the
Trustees
Chair of the Lords Select
Committee on Science & Technology, 2001 - 05
Chairman of SETNET - Science, Engineering,
Technology and Mathematics Network

Lord
Palmer
President of BABFO - the
British Association for Bio Fuels and Oils

Lord
Pannick
Chairman of the Legal Branch of the British Friends of the Hebrew University

Lord
Patel
Chair of the Advisory
Committee on Scientific Advances in Genetics of the Medical
Research Council
Member of the Armed Forces
Pay Review Board
Council Member of the
European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Vice President of the International Federation
of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Member of the Lords
Science & Technology Sub-Committee I (Fighting
Infection) 2003
Member of the Lords Science & Technology
Sub-Committee II (Innovations in Computer
Processors/Microprocessing; Sustainable Energy)
Chair of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Chair of the Stem Cell
Steering Committee of the Medical Research Council

Lord Powell
of Bayswater
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Trustee of the Aspen
Institute
Member of the British
Museum Trust
Former President of the
China-Britain Business Council
Chair of Trustees of
Oxford University Sa�d Business School
Trustee of
The Sa�d Foundation
Member, Global Board of Advisers at the Council on Foreign Relations

Baroness Prashar
Chairman, Judicial Appointments Commission 2005-2010
First Commissioner of the Civil Service 2000-2005
Executive Chairman of the Parole Board, 1997 to 2000
Former Chief Executive, Runnymede Trust
Former Chief Executive, National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Former Non-Executive Director, Channel 4
Former Non-Executive Director, ITV
Former Chancellor, De Montfort
University
Former Chairman, National
Literacy Trust
Former Chairman, Royal Commonwealth
Society

Lord
Quirk
Council Member of RADA -
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Vice Chairman of the Academic Governors of
Richmond University - The American International University
in London

Lord Rees of Ludlow
Astronomer Royal
Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Cambridge University
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University
President of the Royal Society - the UK's national academy of science

Lord Rix
President of Mencap
Priesident, Friends of Normansfield
President, Roy Kinnear Foundation
President, Friends of Richmond Park Foundation
Vice President of the
Radio Society of Great Britain
Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Society of Medicine
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists
Chancellor Emeritus of the University of East
London

Earl of
Sandwich
Former Member, Council of
Anti-Slavery International
Former Member, The Association
of CARE International UK
Former Board Member, Christian Aid
Former Consultant, Save the Children

Lord Singh of Wimbledon
Director, Network of Sikh Organisations UK

Earl of Stair
Regional Board Member, Scottish Environmental Protection Authority

Lord
Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky
website
Professor of Political
Economy, University of Warwick
Member of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Governor of Brighton College
Governor of the Moscow School of Political
Studies

Baroness
Stern
Honorary Senior Research
Fellow of the International Centre for Prison
Studies

Lord
Stevenson of Coddenham
Former Chairman of Aldeburgh Music
Former (Founding) Chairman of the House of
Lords Appointments Commission
Director of Glyndebourne Productions Ltd
Former Chancellor of the London Institute
Trustee of the Tate Gallery Foundation
Trustee, Horse's Mouth
Director, London Music Masters
Director, Institute for Government

Lord St John
of Bletso
Trustee of
Citizens-on-Line
Member of the Institute of
Directors
Trustee of Life
Neurological Trust
Trustee of Television
Trust for the Environment
Trustee of the Tusk Trust

Lord
Tanlaw
Fellow of the Horological
Institute
Fellow of the Royal
Astronomical Society
A founding father and Trustee of the University
of Buckingham
Sponsor of the Lighter Evenings (Experiment) Bill of 2005

Lord
Walpole
House of Lords Sponsor of
the National Lottery (Funding of Endowments) Act
2003

Lord Walton
of Detchant
Patron of Brendoncare -
dedicated to improving the quality of life for older
people
President of the Epilepsy
Research Foundation
Vice President of Headway - the brain injury
association
Life President of the
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
Patron of North
Northumberland Day Hospice
Vice President, Parkinson's UK
Patron, Spinal Injuries Association
Vice Patron of The Percy Hedley Foundation -
helping people with cerebral palsy and communication
difficulties

Baroness Warnock
President of the British
Dyslexia Association
Vice President of the Girls' Day School
Trust
Chair of the Planning Aid
Trust
Patron and friend of The
English Concert
The Practical
Philosopher - Guardian newspaper biography
Mary Warnock's
favourite philosophy books - Guardian newspaper
feature

Lord Wilson of
Tillyorn
Chancellor of Aberdeen
University
Member of the Government's
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Chairman of National Museums of
Scotland
Master of Peterhouse
College, University of Cambridge
Fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh

Lord
Williamson of Horton
Patron of
Rethink
Chairman of Somerset
Strategic Partnership
President of the
University Association for Contemporary European
Studies
Member of the Wessex
Regional Committee of the National Trust
NOTICE: Individual Crossbench Peers are not
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