Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus
The Baroness Antrobus | |
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 Official portrait, 2026 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 28 January 2026 | |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Labour |
| Education | Kingston Grammar School, University of Cambridge |
Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus (previously Gardner) MBE is a British historian, academic and retired military officer.
Life and career
[edit]Privately educated at Putney High School and then Kingston Grammar School, Antrobus is a retired wing commander in the Royal Air Force.[1] Under the previous name Sophy Gardner she was the Labour parliamentary candidate for Gloucester in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.[1]
She is a Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the Freeman Air and Space Institute at King's College London.[2][3] She was nominated for a Labour life peerage as part of the 2025 Political Peerages; she was created as Baroness Antrobus, of Old Sarum in the County of Wiltshire on 28 January 2026.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gloucester CLP select their PPC". LabourList.org. 20 April 2013.
- ^ "Sophy Antrobus". www.rusi.org. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
- ^ London, King's College (2025-12-02). "Sophy Antrobus". King's College London. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
- ^ "Political Peerages December 2025". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
- ^ "No. 64981". The London Gazette. 3 February 2026. p. 1802.
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