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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The Baron Haworth 1948-2023

 The Baron Haworth, who died at Reykjavík, Iceland, 28 August 2023, aged 75.

Alan Robert Haworth, who was born 26 April 1948, was a Labour politician. He was an official in the party from 1975 to 2004, including serving as Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.

Haworth was appointed to the staff of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1975, became Senior Committee Officer in 1985, and served as Secretary of the PLP from 1992 to 2004. He was elevated to the House of Lords on 28 June 2004, and his peerage was gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Haworth, of Fisherfield in Ross and Cromarty. 

Haworth married in 1991,  lawyer Maggie Rae. 

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