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The Lord Bagri | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 14 February 1997 – 6 July 2010 | |
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| Born | 24 August 1930 |
| Died | 26 April 2017 (aged 86) London, England |
| Spouse | Usha Maheshwary |
| Children | 2 |
Raj Kumar Bagri, Baron Bagri, CBE (24 August 1930 – 26 April 2017) was an Indian-born British businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1997 to 2010. He was made a life peer in 1997 under the title Baron Bagri, of Regent's Park in the City of Westminster.[2][3]
Early life
[edit]Raj Kumar Bagri was born on 24 August 1930 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a middle-class family. His father died when he was three, and age 15, his mother sent him to work as a clerk at for a metal distributor, part of the Binani family's industrial empire.[4]
Career
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A businessman, Bagri was chairman of the London Metal Exchange until 2002. Bagri was a member of the advisory committee of The Prince's Trust and chairman of the Bagri Foundation. He was a governor of the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).[5]
In 2012, Bagri sold Hanover Lodge, "the UK’s most expensive home", to Andrey Goncharenko a Russian billionaire, for £120 million.[6]
Personal life
[edit]He was born in a Maheshwari Banias (traders) caste in Bagri tribe of India. He married Usha Maheshwary in 1954, and they had two children.[7]
Honours and arms
[edit]Honours
[edit]He was to the Order of the British Empire as a Commander (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours.[9] The 1997 New Year Honours list announced that Bagri was to be raised to the peerage,[10] and in February he was gazetted a life peer as Baron Bagri, of Regent's Park in the City of Westminster.[11] In 2010, following the enactment of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, Bagri gave up his seat in the House of Lords in order to maintain his non-domiciled status for United Kingdom tax purposes.[12]
Coat of arms
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ Kuthiala, Tushaar (28 April 2017). "UK, India mourn the death of Indian-origin businessman Lord Raj Bagri". Connected to India. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ↑ "No. 54685". The London Gazette. 20 February 1997. p. 2133.
- 1 2 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 219. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- 1 2 "Lord Bagri breathes his last". Asian Voice. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ↑ SOAS: "2016: A Vision and Strategy for the Centennial," p. 18. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Palmer, Ewan (3 February 2012). "Britain's Most Expensive House Sold for £120m". International Business Times. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ↑ "Lord Bagri, doyen of metal traders – obituary". The Telegraph. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ↑ "Raj Bagri was a pillar of Indian community in UK". Hindustan Times. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ↑ "No. 53893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1994. p. 8.
- ↑ Willcock, John. "Peerage hailed as spur to Asian businessmen" in The Independent (London) dated 31 December 1996
- ↑ "No. 54685". The London Gazette. 20 February 1997. p. 2133.
- ↑ "Tory donor Lord Ashcroft gives up non-dom tax status". BBC News. 7 July 2010.
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