Lord Haworth
Alan Haworth was born in Blackburn in 1948.
He was appointed to the staff of the Parliamentary Labour Party in1974 and served the PLP in this capacity for 30 years. From 1992 - when John Smith became Leader of the Labour Party - until his retirement in 2004, he was the Secretary of the PLP. On his retirement he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Haworth, of Fisherfield in Ross and Cromarty.
Alan is author of 113 obituaries of former Labour MPs, some published in The Politico's book of the Dead (2003). He is also joint editor (with Diane Hayter) of Men who Made Labour (2006) which celebrates the lives of the twenty nine Labour MPs elected to Parliament in 1906.
Lord Haworth’s political interests include energy, the environment, transport and health and he is interested in the politics of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. In his spare time he likes to be in the mountains. He was the first member of the House of Lords to climb all the Munros (mountains in Scotland over 3000ft) - a number of which he climbed with John Smith.