Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield
The Lord Plant of Highfield | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 4 November 1992 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 March 1945 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Education | Havelock School |
| Alma mater | King's College London University of Hull |
| Occupation | Academic |
Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield FKC (born 19 March 1945) is a British Labour peer and academic.
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 taking the title Baron Plant of Highfield, of Weelsby in the County of Humberside.[4]
Lord Plant was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004 to 2007. In the Lords he is 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 is also a Lay Canon at Winchester Cathedral.[2][3]
He is a member of the Athenaeum Club.
References
- ^ "Gresham College Press Release, 29 June 2012".
- ^ a b Professor Raymond Plant, King's College London, UK.
- ^ a b Lord Raymond Plant Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society.
- ^ "No. 53004". The London Gazette. 29 July 1992. p. 12763.
External links
- 'Contract, Obligation, Rights and Reciprocity in the New Modern Welfare State' Inaugural lecture of 'The Social Contract Revisited' programme by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Oxford
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Alumni of King's College London
- Alumni of the University of Hull
- Academics of King's College London
- Fellows of King's College London
- Masters of St Catherine's College, Oxford
- Academics of the University of Southampton
- Academics of the University of Manchester
- Fellows of Harris Manchester College, Oxford
- Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Labour Party (UK) life peers
- Life peers created by Elizabeth II
- Professors of Gresham College