Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

The Lord Hughes of Woodside
Official portrait, 2018
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
In office
4 November 1985  23 November 1988
LeaderNeil Kinnock
Preceded byGwyneth Dunwoody
Succeeded byJohn Prescott
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
In office
11 March 1974  22 July 1975
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byHector Monro
Succeeded byFrank McElhone
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
15 October 1997  7 January 2022
Life peerage
Member of Parliament
for Aberdeen North
In office
18 June 1970  8 April 1997
Preceded byHector Hughes
Succeeded byMalcolm Savidge
Personal details
Born
Robert Hughes

(1932-01-03)3 January 1932
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died7 January 2022(2022-01-07) (aged 90)
Political partyLabour

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (3 January 1932 – 7 January 2022) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 27 years, and was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa.