Ivor Richard

The Right Honourable
The Lord Richard
PC QC
The Right Honourable The Lord Richard PC QC
	Official portrait, 1980
Leader of the House of Lords; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal;
	In office; 2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Viscount Cranborne
Succeeded by	The Baroness Jay of Paddington
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords; Shadow Leader of the House of Lords;
	In office; 18 July 1992 – 2 May 1997
Leader	John Smith; Margaret Beckett (acting); Tony Blair;
Preceded by	The Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos
Succeeded by	The Viscount Cranborne
European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs
	In office; 6 January 1981 – 5 January 1985
President	Gaston Thorn
Preceded by	Henk Vredeling
Succeeded by	Peter Sutherland
British Ambassador to the United Nations
	In office; 2 June 1974 – 21 December 1979
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson; James Callaghan; Margaret Thatcher;
Preceded by	Donald Maitland
Succeeded by	Anthony Parsons
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Army
	In office; 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	James Boyden
Succeeded by	Ian Gilmour
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage; 14 May 1990 – 18 March 2018
Member of Parliament; for Barons Court
	In office; 15 October 1964 – 8 February 1974
Preceded by	Bill Carr
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Ivor Seward Richard; 30 May 1932; Cardiff, Wales
Died	18 March 2018 (aged 85); Lambeth, London, England
Party	Labour
Spouses	; Geraldine Moore (m. 1956, divorced) ; Alison Imrie (m. 1962; div. 1983) ; Janet Jones; (m. 1989)
Children	4
Education	St Michael's School, Llanelli; Cheltenham College;
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford

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Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard, PC, QC (30 May 1932 – 18 March 2018) was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 until 1974. He was also a member of the European Commission and latterly sat as a life peer in the House of Lords.