The Lord Bagri | |
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| Born | 24 August 1930 Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India[1] |
| 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]
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Early life
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
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
He was born in a Maheshwari Banias (traders) caste in Bagri tribe of India. He married Usha Maheshwary in 1954 and they had son Apurv, who took over the running of Metdist, and daughter Amita Birla.[7]
Bagri died in London on 26 April 2017.[8][4]
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Honours
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]
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Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 219. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ a b "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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