Two new Peers created October 2025.

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According to [https://lordsappointments.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-22-HOLAC-XBENCH-PEERS-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf] the following has been announced.

- Professor Dame Clare Gerada, a distinguished medical practitioner with

extensive experience in general practice and mental health.

- Polly Neate CBE, an expert in social policy, specialising in housing,

homelessness and violence against women and girls.

A note: Professor Dame Clare Gerada is Lady Wessely, wife of Prof Sir Simon Charles Wessely, GBE and is also of Maltese descent. She is perhaps the "first Maltese woman" apart from Rosa Monckton to be created a Peer of the Realm.

Her ancestry:

https://maltagenealogy.com/gerada-2/

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Dame Clare Gerada (Lady Wessely) b 8 Nov 1959 (Who's Who)

Polly Neate b 15 Feb 1966 (Companies House filing history Caritas - Social Action 2 Mar 2009)

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On Wikipedia, a new peer has appeared.. Can anyone confirm this.

• Alice Maynard

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In googling her name, I come across an "Alice Maynard" who is a CBE, but I don't know if it's the same one.

Regardless, she does not appear on the UK Parliament website.  The last new peer added to that  site is Baroness Lloyd of Effra, on October 13th.

Brooke

[Tim]

It was announced today that Dr Alan Whitehead CBE is to be created a Life Peer after being appointed Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Dr Whitehead was born on 15 September 1950. He was Leader of Southampton City Council from 1984 to 1992 and Member of Parliament (Labour) for Southampton Test from 1997 to 2024. He also served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport, the Environment and the Regions from 2001 to 2002.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-11-november-2025

Tim

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An article in the Times of Malta regarding Baroness Gerada being the first Women of Maltese descent to enter the House of Lords.

https://timesofmalta.com/article/clare-gerada-becomes-first-maltese-woman-uk-house-lords.1121479