Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus

The Baroness Antrobus
Member of the House of Lords
Life peerage
28 January 2026
Personal details
PartyLabour
EducationKingston Grammar School, University of Cambridge

Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus MBE is a British historian, academic and retired military officer.

Life and Career

Privately educated at Putney High School and then Kingston Grammar School, Antrobus is a retired wing commander in the Royal Air Force and 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

  1. ^ "Gloucester CLP select their PPC". LabourList.org. 20 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Sophy Antrobus". www.rusi.org. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  3. ^ London, King's College (2025-12-02). "Sophy Antrobus". King's College London. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  4. ^ "Political Peerages December 2025". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  5. ^ "No. 64981". The London Gazette. 3 February 2026. p. 1802.