The Baron Prescott, who died 20 November, 2024, aged 86, was a life peer and politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007.
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May, 1938), was a son of John Herbert Prescott (1911-2001), and his wife the former Phyllis Parrish (who died 2003). Prescott served as Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull East for 40 years, from 1970 to 2010. He was often seen as the political link to the working class in a Labour Party increasingly led by modernising, middle-class professionals such as Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, and developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often fractious relationship between Blair and Gordon Brown.
It was announced on 28 May 2010 that Prescott was to be awarded a life peerage. The peerage was gazetted on 15 June in the 2010 in the Dissolution Honours. He was introduced into the House of Lords on 8 July, 2010, as Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of East Yorkshire.
Lord Prescott is survived by his wife the former Pauline Tilston, whom he married in 1961, and leaves issue, two sons.
He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1994, but resigned in 2013.
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