Dick Taverne

The Right Honourable The Lord Taverne KC
Official portrait, 2018
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Harold Lever
Succeeded by	Patrick Jenkin
Minister of State for the Treasury
In office 6 April 1968 – 13 October 1969
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Bill Rodgers
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
In office 6 April 1966 – 6 April 1968
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	George Thomas
Succeeded by	Elystan Morgan
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 5 February 1996 – 7 March 2025 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Lincoln
In office 8 March 1962 – 20 September 1974
Preceded by	Geoffrey de Freitas
Succeeded by	Margaret Jackson
Personal details
Born	(1928-10-18)18 October 1928 Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
Died	25 October 2025(2025-10-25) (aged 97) London, England
Political party	Labour (until 1972) Democratic Labour (1972–80) SDP (1981–88) Liberal Democrats (1988–2025)
Children	2, including Suzanna
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, QC (18 October 1928 – 25 October 2025) was an English Liberal Democrat politician and life peer in the House of Lords.

Taverne died at his home in London, England on 25 October 2025, at the age of 97.

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