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{{Short description|Indian-British businessman and politician (1930-2017)}}
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'''Raj Kumar Bagri, Baron Bagri''', [[CBE]] (24 August 1930 – 26 April 2017) was an Indian-born British businessman, and a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] member of the [[House of Lords]] from 1997 to 2010.
'''Raj Kumar Bagri, Baron Bagri''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (24 August 1930 – 26 April 2017) was an Indian-born British businessman and a [[Conservative Party (UK)|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.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue = 54685 |date = 20 February 1997|page= 2133}}</ref><ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=219 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

==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 Industries|Binani family's industrial empire]].<ref name="Asian Voice" />


==Career==
==Career==
[[File:THOMAS COCHRANE and DAVID EARL BEATTY - Hanover Lodge Outer Circle Regent's Park London NW1 4RJ (2).jpg|thumb|Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park, London]]
[[File:THOMAS COCHRANE and DAVID EARL BEATTY - Hanover Lodge Outer Circle Regent's Park London NW1 4RJ (2).jpg|thumb|Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park, London]]


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).<ref>SOAS: [http://www.soas.ac.uk/directorate/soas2016/file23384.pdf "2016: A Vision and Strategy for the Centennial," p. 18.]</ref>
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).<ref>SOAS: [http://www.soas.ac.uk/directorate/soas2016/file23384.pdf "2016: A Vision and Strategy for the Centennial," p. 18.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604073116/http://www.soas.ac.uk/directorate/soas2016/file23384.pdf |date=4 June 2011 }}</ref>


In 2012, Bagri sold [[Hanover Lodge]], "the UK’s most expensive home", to [[Andrey Goncharenko]] a Russian [[billionaire]], for £120 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rt.com/news/172552-billionaire-buys-london-house/ |title=Revealed: Russian oligarch behind purchase of UK’s most expensive home |website=Rt.com |date=14 July 2014 |accessdate=27 January 2017}}</ref>
In 2012, Bagri sold [[Hanover Lodge]], "the UK’s most expensive home", to [[Andrey Goncharenko]] a Russian [[billionaire]], for £120 million.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ewan|last=Palmer|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/expensive-house-uk-britain-120m-hanover-lodge-308135|title=Britain's Most Expensive House Sold for £120m|work=[[International Business Times]]|date=3 February 2012|access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
He was born in a [[Maheshwari]] [[Bania (caste)|Bania]]s (traders) caste
He married Usha Maheshwary in 1954 and they had son Apurv, who took over the running of Metdist, and daughter [[Amita Birla]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/05/01/lord-bagri-doyen-metal-traders-obituary/|title=Lord Bagri, doyen of metal traders – obituary |publisher=The Telegraph|date=1 May 2017 |accessdate=5 May 2017}}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/05/01/lord-bagri-doyen-metal-traders-obituary/|title=Lord Bagri, doyen of metal traders – obituary |newspaper=The Telegraph|date=1 May 2017 |access-date=5 May 2017}}</ref>


Bagri died in London on 26 April 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/raj-bagri-was-a-pillar-of-indian-community-in-uk/story-gTHgKm3TrU01SDd9xdQJcL.html |title=Raj Bagri was a pillar of Indian community in UK &#124; world-news |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=27 April 2016 |accessdate=27 April 2017}}</ref>
Bagri died in London on 26 April 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/raj-bagri-was-a-pillar-of-indian-community-in-uk/story-gTHgKm3TrU01SDd9xdQJcL.html |title=Raj Bagri was a pillar of Indian community in UK |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=27 April 2016 |access-date=27 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="Asian Voice">{{cite news |title=Lord Bagri breathes his last |url=https://www.asian-voice.com/Community/Lord-Bagri-breathes-his-last |access-date=19 January 2021 |work=Asian Voice |date=28 April 2017}}</ref>


==Honours, styles and arms==
==Honours and arms==
===Honours===
===Honours===
He was to the [[Order of the British Empire]] as a Commander (CBE) in the [[1995 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53893 |date=31 December 1994 |page=8 |supp=y}}</ref> The [[1997 New Year Honours]] list announced that Bagri was to be raised to the peerage,<ref>Willcock, John. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peerage-hailed-as-spur-to-asian-businessmen-1316551.html "Peerage hailed as spur to Asian businessmen"] in ''The Independent'' (London) dated 31 December 1996</ref> and in February he was gazetted a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Bagri''', ''of [[Regent's Park]] in the [[City of Westminster]]''.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54685 |date=20 February 1997 |page=2133}}</ref> In 2010, following the enactment of the [[Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010|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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10535852.stm |title=Tory donor Lord Ashcroft gives up non-dom tax status | work=BBC News | date=7 July 2010}}</ref>
He was to the [[Order of the British Empire]] as a Commander (CBE) in the [[1995 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53893 |date=31 December 1994 |page=8 |supp=y}}</ref> The [[1997 New Year Honours]] list announced that Bagri was to be raised to the peerage,<ref>Willcock, John. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/peerage-hailed-as-spur-to-asian-businessmen-1316551.html "Peerage hailed as spur to Asian businessmen"] in ''The Independent'' (London) dated 31 December 1996</ref> and in February he was gazetted a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Bagri''', ''of [[Regent's Park]] in the [[City of Westminster]]''.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54685 |date=20 February 1997 |page=2133}}</ref> In 2010, following the enactment of the [[Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010|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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10535852.stm |title=Tory donor Lord Ashcroft gives up non-dom tax status | work=BBC News | date=7 July 2010}}</ref>

===Styles of address===
*1930{{ndash}}1995: Mr Raj Bagri
*1995{{ndash}}1997: Mr Raj Bagri {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE}}
*1997{{ndash}}: The Rt Hon. The Lord Bagri {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE}}


===Coat of arms===
===Coat of arms===
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|crest = Issuing from a Demi Kalasa Sable garnished Or a Lotus Flower also Or
|crest = Issuing from a Demi Kalasa Sable garnished Or a Lotus Flower also Or<ref name="burke"/>
|coronet = A [[Coronet|Coronet of a Baron]]
|coronet = A [[Coronet|Coronet of a Baron]]
|escutcheon = Per pale Sable and Gules six Swordblades three in bend-sinisterwise issuant from the dexter three bendwise issuant from the sinister their points crossing in saltire Or
|escutcheon = ''Per pale sable and gules six swordblades six swordblades three bend sinister issuant from the dexter three bendwise issuant from the sinister their points crossing in saltire or''
|supporters = On either side an Elephant, the dexter Gules with Housings on the back and forehead Sable garnished tasselled and fringed Or the sinister Sable with like Housings Gules garnished tasselled and fringed Or each semy of Cinquefoils tusked and unguled Argent the tusks banded Or and holding aloft with the trunk a Lotus Flower slipped also Or
|supporters = On either side an Elephant, the dexter Gules with Housings on the back and forehead Sable garnished tasselled and fringed Or the sinister Sable with like Housings Gules garnished tasselled and fringed Or each semy of Cinquefoils tusked and unguled Argent the tusks banded Or and holding aloft with the trunk a Lotus Flower slipped also Or
|badge = Three Lotus Flowers in pairle slips outwards and conjoined to the Fimbriation Or of a Roundel Gules
|badge = Three Lotus Flowers in pairle slips outwards and conjoined to the Fimbriation Or of a Roundel Gules
|motto = Truth always triumphs
|motto = "Truth always triumphs"
}}
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Latest revision as of 10:53, 24 August 2024

The Right Honourable
The Lord Bagri
CBE
Personal details
Born(1930-08-24)24 August 1930
Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India[1]
Died26 April 2017(2017-04-26) (aged 86)
London, England
SpouseUsha Maheshwary
Children2

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

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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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Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park, London

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

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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]

Honours and arms

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Honours

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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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Coat of arms of Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri
Coronet
A Coronet of a Baron
Crest
Issuing from a Demi Kalasa Sable garnished Or a Lotus Flower also Or[3]
Escutcheon
Per pale sable and gules six swordblades six swordblades three bend sinister issuant from the dexter three bendwise issuant from the sinister their points crossing in saltire or
Supporters
On either side an Elephant, the dexter Gules with Housings on the back and forehead Sable garnished tasselled and fringed Or the sinister Sable with like Housings Gules garnished tasselled and fringed Or each semy of Cinquefoils tusked and unguled Argent the tusks banded Or and holding aloft with the trunk a Lotus Flower slipped also Or
Motto
"Truth always triumphs"
Badge
Three Lotus Flowers in pairle slips outwards and conjoined to the Fimbriation Or of a Roundel Gules

Notes

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  1. ^ Kuthiala, Tushaar (28 April 2017). "UK, India mourn the death of Indian-origin businessman Lord Raj Bagri". Connected to India. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  2. ^ "No. 54685". The London Gazette. 20 February 1997. p. 2133.
  3. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 219. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  4. ^ a b "Lord Bagri breathes his last". Asian Voice. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. ^ SOAS: "2016: A Vision and Strategy for the Centennial," p. 18. Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Palmer, Ewan (3 February 2012). "Britain's Most Expensive House Sold for £120m". International Business Times. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Lord Bagri, doyen of metal traders – obituary". The Telegraph. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Raj Bagri was a pillar of Indian community in UK". Hindustan Times. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  9. ^ "No. 53893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1994. p. 8.
  10. ^ Willcock, John. "Peerage hailed as spur to Asian businessmen" in The Independent (London) dated 31 December 1996
  11. ^ "No. 54685". The London Gazette. 20 February 1997. p. 2133.
  12. ^ "Tory donor Lord Ashcroft gives up non-dom tax status". BBC News. 7 July 2010.


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