Baroness Howells of St Davids, OBE 1931-2025

The Baroness Howells of St Davids, OBE, a Labour politician and life peer, died 14 October, 2025, aged 94.

Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells was born in January 1931. She was raised to the peerage for life in 1999, as Baroness Howells of St Davids, in the London Borough of Greenwich. She sat in the House of Lords until retiring in 2019.

Baroness Howells served as the Director of the Greenwich Racial Equality Council as well as a Community and Equal Opportunities Worker. She was a trustee of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was the first black woman to sit on the GLC's Training Board; the first female member of the Court of Governors of the University of Greenwich and was the Vice Chair at the London Voluntary Service Council. She worked with the Carnival Liaison Committee, the Greater London Action in Race Equality, and was an active campaigner for justice in the field of race relations. She was a trustee of the Jason Roberts Foundation, which aims to provide a range of sporting opportunities for children and young people in the United Kingdom and Grenada. In March 2009, she was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire in Luton. She was a trustee of St George's University's UK Trust and served on the board of the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF), the research institute affiliated with St. George's University.

She was appointed OBE in 1994.

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