John Habgood, Baron Habgood

Who is John Habgood, Baron Habgood?

John Stapylton Habgood, Baron Habgood PC, was Bishop of Durham from 1973 to 1983, and Archbishop of York from 18 November 1983 to 1995.

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1983, and was created a life peer as Baron Habgood, of Calverton in the County of Buckinghamshire on 8 September 1995. Later in his life he ceased attending the House of Lords and took leave of absence; on 3 October 2011 he became one of the first two Peers to formally and permanently retire from membership under a newly instituted procedure.