Lord Howarth of Newport (1944-2025)

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According to The Telegraph, Lord Howarth of Newport died on Sept. 10, 2025.  He was 81.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/09/11/alan-howarth-newport-conservative-thatcher-blair-disable/

Alan Thomas Howarth was born on June 11, 1944.  He and his wife Gillian (nee Chance) had 2 sons and 2 daughters.  They later divorced.

He was created Lord Howarth of Newport in 2005.

His Lordship later entered into a civil partnership with Lady Hollis of Heigham, who died in 2018.

Brooke

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He last voted on 23th July 2025 and last spoke in the Lords 7th May 2025.

[David Beamish]

His death may have been quite sudden as he was listed to speak ("virtually") in tomorrow's debate on the 2nd reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 13 Sep 2025

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Lord Howarth obituary: Tory MP who defected to New Labour

Safe seat Tory accused of treachery after he defected to join Tony Blair’s party, leaving John Major’s government in a precarious situation, dies aged 81

… Alan Thomas Howarth was born in 1944. His father, Tom, was a military historian who became a distinguished high master of St Paul’s School, and his mother was Margaret Teakle. Alan was educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge where he read history. Thanks to his father’s connections he became a researcher and then ghost writer for Viscount Montgomery’s History of Warfare. Unlike some, he found the field marshal funny and generous-spirited. He followed his father into education, spending seven years teaching at Westminster School.

Howarth married Gillian Chance in 1967. They separated in 1995 and were divorced the following year. They had two sons, James and Charles, and two daughters, Catherine and Sophie. He formed a partnership with the Labour peer Baroness Hollis of Heigham after the death of her husband in 1998. They shared an interest in social issues, particularly the disabled, and were close until her death in 2018. He felt her loss keenly and admitted to a friend: “I am supposed to have a stiff upper lip but I seem to have lost it.”…

… In the Lords he was active and made frequent and thoughtful interventions on the arts and the economy. But his support for Brexit, arguing that it was for parliament to decide the laws under which the British people lived, put him at odds with the majority of his Labour colleagues. He was undaunted, just as he had been in switching his party allegiance in 1995.

Lord Howarth of Newport, Labour politician, was born on June 11, 1944. He died of cancer on September 10, 2025, aged 81

https://www.thetimes.com/article/1423143a-b6d8-4313-82a5-ac31735865c4