Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield

Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield, FKC (born 19 March 1945), is a British Labour peer and academic.

The Lord Plant of Highfield
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
24 July 1992 – 28 February 2024
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1945-03-19) 19 March 1945 (age 78)
Political partyLabour
Alma mater
OccupationAcademic

Lord Plant was educated at Havelock School in Grimsby, King's College London (BA Philosophy, 1966), and the University of Hull (PhD). He is currently Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London and was previously Professor of Divinity at Gresham College,[1] having previously served as Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2000. He is an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford. Before moving to Oxford he was Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton, and prior to that was a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Manchester.[2][3]

He was created a life peer on 24 July 1992 as Baron Plant of Highfield, of Weelsby in the County of Humberside,[4] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 4 November.[5] Plant was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004 to 2007. In the Lords he was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and has been a member of the Government and Law Sub Committee of the Committee on the European Communities. He is the author of several books on political philosophy, and was formerly a lay canon at Winchester Cathedral.[2][3] Plant retired from the Lords on 28 February 2024.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ "Gresham College Press Release, 29 June 2012".
  2. ^ a b Professor Raymond Plant, King's College London, UK.
  3. ^ a b Lord Raymond Plant Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society.
  4. ^ "No. 53004". The London Gazette. 29 July 1992. p. 12763.
  5. ^ "Lord Plant Of Highfield". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 539. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 4 November 1992. col. 1423.
  6. ^ "Retirement of a Member: Lord Plant of Highfield". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 28 February 2024.

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Academic offices
Preceded by Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford
1994–2000
Succeeded by
Preceded by Head of King's College London School of Law
2005–2008
Succeeded by
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gentlemen
Baron Plant of Highfield
Followed by