A couple of quiz questions.
Peer 1
I did a politics degree at Leeds.
I served as director of a major Trust.
I have held major positions relating to civil servants, judges and to parole.
Who am I?
Peer 2
I boxed at Oxford.
I have held ministerial office.
My title has varied depending on where I am.
Who am I?
Peer 1: Baroness Prashar
Peer1:Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract (?)
Peer2: Are you being mischievous Lord Norton? (Considering our answers to your question of peers we admired) I think it’s Lord Selkirk of Douglas, who as Lord James Douglas Hamilton was a local councillor and MP, sometime Earl of Selkirk and sat as an MSP and in the lords under his present title. Even with the suspicion it was hard to find out his had a blue in boxing though.
The answers are indeed Baroness Prashar and Lord Selkirk. The honours are shared between Rob and Croft.
Baroness Prashar was, among other things, Director of Runnymede Trust as well as the National Council of Voluntary Organisations. She has served as chair of the Parole Board, as First Civil Service Commission, and as chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission.
Lord Selkirk sat in the Commons as Lord James Douglas-Hamilton from 1974 to 1997, disclaiming the Earldom of Selkirk. After leaving the Commons, he was made a life peer as Lord Selkirk of Douglas but sat in the Scottish Parliament from 1999 to 2007 under the title that he had when he was an MP.