15 Facts About Lord Lester

1.

Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC was a British barrister and member of the House of Lords.

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2.

Lord Lester was at different times a member of the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats.

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3.

Lord Lester was a prominent figure in promoting birth control and abortion through the Family Planning Association, particularly in Northern Ireland.

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4.

Lord Lester was born into a Jewish family and was educated at the City of London School.

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5.

Lord Lester then studied history and law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard Law School, graduating with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws degrees respectively.

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6.

Lord Lester was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1963 and took silk in 1975.

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7.

Lord Lester was appointed adjunct professor of the Faculty of Law at University College Cork in 2005.

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8.

Lord Lester was chairman of the Runnymede Trust from 1991 to 1993.

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9.

Lord Lester was a special adviser to Roy Jenkins at the Home Office in the 1970s, and moved with Jenkins from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981.

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10.

On 29 June 2007, Lord Lester was appointed by Gordon Brown as a special adviser on constitutional reform to the Secretary of State for Justice.

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11.

Lord Lester was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

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12.

Lord Lester was a patron of the Family Planning Association, previously called the National Birth Control Committee.

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13.

Lord Lester was raised to the peerage as Baron Lester of Herne Hill, of Herne Hill in the London Borough of Southwark on 13 October 1993.

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14.

Lord Lester said that he lacked the strength or health to continue, after the Committee disagreed with the House's conclusion regarding the fairness of the process and renewed the recommendation of his suspension until June 2022.

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15.

Lord Lester was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003.

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